Summary: International Organisations

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• 1.1 Lecture 1

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• Why do state create international institutions?

  To bridge the tension between individual and collective interests. Also: pursue common interests, coordinate actions, facilitate regulat communication, monitor one another, gain legitimacy, symbolic value, adjudicate disputes etc.

• What can IO's do according to Barnett and finnemore

  Classify the world
  fix meanings in the social world
  articulate and diffuse new norms
  
  they see IO's as autonomous sources of power/authority
  IO's are actors, not just a stage

• UN structure organs

  primary organs: General Assembly, UNSC, ECOSOCC, secretariat, ICJ (and trusteeship Council)

• What is UN Policy

  Actions and principles promoted through UN treaties, resolutions, programs, projects, missions, campaigns, mandates and recommendations

• When is UN Policy applied

  Broadly speaking: international peace and security, human rights, humanitarian aid, sustainable development and international law

• Who enacts UN policy?

  secretary-general, secretariat, UN agencies, ICJ, International criminal court, UN tribunals, peacekeeping forces, NGO's, Member states and the private sector

• UN policy making intergovernmentalist perspective

  States use UN for what they can get out of it. Therefore, policy reflects distribution of international power

• UN policy making transnational perspective

  elements of UN system operate with a high degree of autonomy from states, with constituencies that go well beyond states, and have independent power to initiate projects and policies

• Study of IO's 1960s

  behavioralism popularized, focusing on political behavior of actors, verifying testable propositions

• study of IO's 1960-1980s

  'Failures' of IO's decreases interest in IO research