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What is a common initial action taken by the UN Security Council when faced with a threat to peace?
Which of the following is NOT considered a gap in addressing current global challenges?
What is the purpose of appointing special envoys by the UN Security Council?
What term describes the collective action symbolizing a community of strangers in the context of global governance?
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The UN acts as a comprehensive global organization that encourages collaboration among which of the following?
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What is a characteristic of global governance that deals with worldwide problems transcending individual state capabilities?
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Which factor contributes to the increasing fragmentation of global governance?
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What role do intergovernmental organizations play in global governance?
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In the context of global governance, what is the purpose of regional security actors?
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Which area of global governance focuses on issues like labor conditions and migration?
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What is the Bretton Woods System primarily characterized by?
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What is an essential element of good global governance in the area of the economy?
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Which characteristic of global governance is described as comprising both formal and informal mechanisms?
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What issue does the area of Global Ecosystem Preservation primarily aim to enhance?
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What is a significant obstacle to good global governance?
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Study Notes
Global Governance
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Characteristics of Global Governance
- Collective efforts to identify, understand, and address worldwide problems that surpass the capabilities of individual states.
- Capacity of the international system to provide government-like services in the absence of a world government.
- Variety of cooperative problem-solving arrangements, including formal and informal institutions, practices, or guidelines.
- Formalized problem-solving arrangements and mechanisms, such as hard rules, treaties, or institutions with administrative structures to manage collective affairs.
Fragmented Nature of Global Governance
- Increasing fragmentation of political authority among state and nonstate actors at different levels of interaction.
- Urgent demand for social and political coordination at the international level in different areas of human activity where there’s a shared view about common problems and potential common will to work together.
Areas of Global Governance
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Security
- Solving conflicts of the states.
- Security governance policies.
- Role of regional security actors.
- Capacity of member states to enable regional organizations to produce collective security goods (NATO and EU).
- Potential to produce regional or global instability, food insecurity, and climate change.
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Economy
- Responding efficiently to secular stagnation, recession, or inequality.
- Reforms in the US financial system.
- Coordination of the G20.
- Slow transformations of the Bretton Woods Institutions.
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Global Ecosystem Preservation
- Strengthening sustainable development, social inclusion, environmental sustainability, economic development, and good governance.
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Global Civil Society and Human Rights
- Protecting human rights, promoting labor conditions, addressing migration, health, and sustainable development.
- Issues like internally displaced people, worker exploitation, and collective health problems.
Bretton Woods System
- System where countries fixed their currencies to an anchor currency (the US dollar), and the value of the anchor currency was fixed to gold. Also known as the “gold exchange standard” system.
Global Governance and The United Nations
- The UN serves as a symbol of an imagined and constructed community of strangers.
- It’s a comprehensive global organization that encourages actors at different levels of social aggregation (from local governments and citizens to states and business groups).
- Its primary goals include:
- Maintaining security and order.
- Promoting good governance.
UN Security Council
- When a complaint concerning a threat to peace is brought before the Security Council, the Council recommends that the parties try to reach agreement by peaceful means.
- The Security Council may:
- Set forth principles for such an agreement.
- Undertake investigation and mediation.
- Dispatch a mission.
- Appoint special envoys.
- Request the Secretary-General to use his good offices to achieve a pacific settlement of the dispute.
Gaps In Global Governance
- Knowledge Gap
- Normative Gap
- Policy Gap
- Institutional Gap
- Compliance Gap
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This quiz explores the characteristics and fragmented nature of global governance. It covers the collective efforts to address global issues and the role of various state and nonstate actors. Gain insights into international cooperation and problem-solving mechanisms.
