POL 3100

This is a condensed overview of regional organizations and their purpose, as well as the European Union and the seven supranational institutions that govern the European Union.

These brief notes are on Transnational Issues, the Peace Treaties of Westphalia, the birth of the nation-state, human rights versus humanitarian aid, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

These notes summarize chapter 10 of "International Organizations" (3rd edition), by Karns, Mingst and Stiles. To summarize the chapter in my own words, The powers of the world have a responsibility to help those who can’t help themselves, and to protect people from those who would abuse their basic human rights. States and powers should not be immune to, or out of reach of, the just scrutiny and reprisal of the rest of the world, should those entities infringe upon the rights that every huma...

Chapter three mainly covers the evolution of governance, the organizations that emerged to meet human rights needs, and the changes and renewals those organizations went through as needed. The chapter begins by covering the contemporary state system and the key principles of that system outlined in the Treaty of Westphalia (Karns, Mingst & Stiles, 75).

Karns, Mingst and Stiles first lay out the various types and functions of benevolent and harmful non-state actors including; NGOs, Transnational Networks and Coalitions, Experts/ Epistemic Communities, Multinational Corporations, Social Movements, Foundations, Global Think Tanks, Terrorist organizations, Organized Criminal Organizations and Trafficking Groups/Networks. They then discuss historical global needs that led to the increased number and influence of NSAs. Following that, Karns, Mingst ...

These notes contain a summary of chapter 9 from "International Organizations" (3rd edition), by Karns, Mingst and Stiles. That chapter covered economic growth and economic globalization, as well as how these goals must be tempered by observing human rights.

These notes cover chapter 1 of "International Organizations" (3rd edition), by Karns, Mingst and Stiles. Summary: Addressing global issues like climate change, terrorism, pandemics, human rights violations, ethnic discrimination, genocide, harmfully overzealous nationalism, failing nation-states, poverty, and nuclear weapon proliferation can only be effectively done through the cooperation of sovereign states with one another and with benevolent non-state actors. In the interest of furthering/...

These notes contain a summary of Chapter 2 from Karns, Mingst and Stiles's "International Organizations" (3rd edition). The primary topic is global governance theories.

These notes are a summary of chapter 12 of "International Organizations" (3rd edition), written by Karns, Mingst and Stiles. They are primarily about the issues of global governance.