LESSON 4

The United Nations

and Contemporary
Global Governance
COURSE OUTCOMES
▪ Define global governance

▪ Identify the roles and functions of the

 United Nations

▪ Determine the challenges of global

governance in the 21st century
IS THERE A
GLOBAL
GOVERNMENT?
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

● States continue to adhere to certain global

 norms means that there is a semblance of
world order despite the lack of single world
government.
● Various intersecting processes that create
this order
SOURCES OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE:

Treaties Organization Public

NGO TNCs
 International
Law
Nation -
State
Integrates sub - groups
that define themselves International
as a nation with the intergovernmental
organizational structure organization or groups that
of the state. are primarily made up of
member-states

International
Organization
 Powers of International Organization Michael
N. Barnett & Martha Finnermore

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Security & Development
Power of
classification 34
UNCHR defines what a refugee is Power to diffuse
Power to fix norms
meanings Established global standards
Security & Development

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ORGAN
S OF
UNITED
NATION
S
 General
Assembly
✔ Main deliberative policy
making and representative
organ
✔ Elects GA President with 1
year term
✔ Carlos P. Romulo – GA
President 1949-1950
 Security
Council
▪ Most powerful
 ▪ 15 members
▪ 10 – elects by GA to 2 year term
▪ 5 – permanent member (veto)
▪ Call parties to a dispute to settle in a peaceful
way
▪ States that seek to intervene militarily
in another state need to
obtain approval of SC

Economic and
Social Council
✔ 54 members elected for 3
year term
 ✔ Social and environmental
issue and implementation of
development goals

International
Court of Justice
International
Criminal Court
✔ Settle legal disputes submits to court
submitted by states and ✔ Hears individuals
give advisory opinions

✔ States voluntarily
Secretariat
 ✔ Secretary-General and
thousans of international
UN staff members

✔ Carry out the day-to-day

work of the UN
CHALLENGES OF UNITED NATIONS
KOSOVO WAR
 Serbians
Muslim Albanians
CHALLENGES OF UNITED NATIONS
Pres
 Bashar

al-AssadVladimir Putin
RIGHT DECISION OF UN

SADDAM HUSSEIN
❑ Russia, China and France
vetoed
 ❑US with coalition invade Iraq

NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WAS FOUND

IS UNITED NATIONS
A GLOBAL
GOVERNMENT?

NO!
BUT IT’S CLOSEST TO A WORLD
GOVERNMENT

THANK YOU!