Political Globalization

Ies
Scope

• Global Governance
• Contemporary International Organizations
• World of Regions
• International Relations
 Case no. 7

In other parts of the world, countries such as Japan,

US, North Korea, and Russia have developed their
own means of producing man-made energy even if it
means harming others. The development of nuclear
weapons has its own perks and cons. How about you?
How do you perceive this?
 Case no. 7

We have to remember that because of nuclear

weapons, lives were threatened just like what
happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as in
Chernobyl. Do you think we should ban nuclear
weapons?
Case no. 8
Do you believe that love
knows no age?
Countries in the middle east and
southern Asia are still stuck with
the supremacy of patriarchy
embedded in their culture. One of
these practices is the concept of
child marriage. Do you think this
should be banned?
 Global Governance

• Collective efforts to identify, understand and

address worldwide problems that go beyond
the problem-solving capacities of states
 International Law National Law

Laws that regulate Laws that regulate

relations of states individuals among
and international themselves or within
persons the state
 International Law National Law

War should be the The Separation of the

last resort of all State and the Church
nations if all means shall be inviolable
have been exhausted

Doctrine of
Transformation
Requires the re-enactment
of by the legislative body
of such international law
principles are sought to be
part of municipal law
How?
Doctrine of
Incorporation
The Philippines renounces war as an
instrument of national policy, adopts
the generally accepted principles of
international law as part of the law of
the land and adheres to the policy of
peace, equality, justice, freedom,
cooperation, and amity with all nations.
 Sources of International Laws

• Decision of national and lower courts

• Scholarly writings
• Executive Agreements
• Concordat
• International Conventions
• International customs
 International Conventions

• International agreements concluded between

States, in written form and governed by
International Law, embodied either in a
single instrument or in two or more
instruments and whatever its particular
designation
 Treaties

Bilateral Multilateral

• Agreement between • Agreement between

two countries three or more
• Visiting Forces countries
• UNCLOS
Agreement
 International Customs

• Customary Law
• Rules derived from the consistent conduct of
states, acting out of the belief that the belief
that the law required to act them that way
World Bank Classification System

Classification

• Low-income- less than $1036

• Lower-middle- bet $1036- $4045
• Upper-middle- bet $4046- $12535
• High Income- greater than $12535
 State and Non-State Actors

Is the state synonymous with the term

nation?
 Concept of a State

• Compulsory political organization with a

centralized government that maintains the
legitimate use of force within a certain
territory
 Concept of a State

• Community of persons more or less

numerous, permanently occupying a definite
portion of territory, having a government
of their own to which the great body of
inhabitants render obedience, and enjoying
freedom from external control
 Concept of a Nation

• A group of people bound together by certain

characteristics such as common social origin,
language, customs and traditions and who
believe that they are one and distinct from
others.
 Concept of a Nation-State

• A political community that emanates from

civic society to legitimately execute peace
 individual or a group that seeks to influential organizations or even
achieve goal by either conflicting individuals having the potential to
or cooperating with others in a influence the actions of state actors,
political context but not allied to a state.
 State Actors

• Different agencies of the government

• Governmental organizations
 The United Nations

• Established to maintain international peace

and security
• Carries the functions of delivering
humanitarian aid, promoting sustainable
development, and upholding international
law
 Six Organs

• The General Assembly – which serves as

the main deliberative policy-making and
representative organ
• The Security Council – is the organ
which has the commitment to preserve
peace and security.
 Six Organs

• The Economic and Social Council – is

the main organ for cooperation, policy,
review, policy dialogue, and advice on
economic, environmental and social
issues.
 Six Organs

• The Trusteeship Council – is the organ

tasked to administer international
oversight for trust territories and to make
sure that adequate procedures are taken for
independence and self – government.
 Six Organs

• The International Court of Justice – is

the UN’s prime judicial organ
• The Secretariat – is the organ tasked to
execute the daily activities as assigned by
the five other organs.
 Effects of Globalization in Global Politics

• Globalization is seen to impose a forced

choice upon nation – states
• Establishment of economic and political
integrations
• Establishment of international laws and
principles
 Effects of Globalization in Global Politics

• rise of transnational activism (TNA)

• the creation of new communication
network
International Global Organizations
 Effects of Globalization in Global Politics

• Internationalism- basically anchored on

the opinion that nationalism should be
outrun because links that bind people of
different countries are more powerful than
those that disconnect them
 Liberal Internationalism

• Proposes that nations must give up their

freedom and submit to a larger system of
laws that is embodied by common
international principles
 Socialist Intertionalism

• Based on the view that capitalism is a

global system and that the working class
must unite as a global class to forward the
struggle against capitalism.
 Globalism

• Emerged as an attitude that seeks to

understand all the interconnections of the
modern world and to highlight patterns
that underlie them
Global South and
Global North
Three-World Typology

Definition
 Global South

• Metaphor for interstate inequality and a

product of Western imagination
• One can say that the terms Global South
and Third World are conceptually the same.
 Global North

• Home of all members of the Group of Eight

– Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,
United Kingdom, Russia, and the United
States of America.
• abode of the four powerful permanent
members of the United Nations Security
Council
 Exercise

• Singapore • United
• Japan Kingdom
• Philippines • Ecuador
• Thailand • Argentina
• China • Germany
• Russia • Mexico