The Global Interstate System

Effects of Globalization to governments

Government- group of people who have the ultimate authority to act on behalf of a state

Four challenges to the government:

1.Traditional Challenges 2.Challenges from national/National Movements

3.Global Economics 4.Global Social Movements

Institutions that govern International Relations

United Nation- one of the leading political organizations in the world where nation-states meet

-coined by former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942

- functions are for military issues, economic,environmental and human protection

Security council-group of countries decides what to do when 2 or more countries are waging war

-5 permanent members includes US, Britain,China,Russia and France

UNICEF(United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund)- help children around the world in which
they collected funds to distribute emergency relief from famine and poverty and disease

UNEP(United Nations Environment Programme)-concerns with the environmental issues such as

pollution and hazardous wastes

ICJ(International Court of Justice)- located in Netherlands(The Hague), UN World Court

NATO- a defensive treaty or a military alliance between US,Canada and 25 European countries

NGO(Non Governmental Organization)- not tied to any country. It provides emergency relief
such as food,water and medical supplies for those who have been destroyed by disaster or war

-they remain neutral and would help the wounded from both sides of war

WTO(World Trade Organization)- made up of 162 countries and was created for increasing free
trade. In which, they can buy and sell without placing taxes

NAFTA-an economic treaty between US,Canada and Mexico; trade freely w/o taxing each other

Globalization and Globalism

Globalism-network of connections that transcends distances of different countries in the world.

In other words, the links among countries and people while speed in which they become linked
with another is globalization.

4 Dimensions of Globalism

a. Economic military- the enormous speed of potential conflict and threat of nuclear war
b. Environmental Globalism-global warming continues to accelerate
c. Social and Cultural Globalism- involves movement of ideas, information, images and of
people who carry ideas with them.

Informationalism-the technological paradigm associated with computer science and modern

telecommunication that replaces industrialism

Reporters:

Balasabas, Patrick Jhon Cañedo,Leslie Berongoy, Joanna Aguined, Elchanie