Reverse Definitions
“…the sum of laws, norms, policies and institutions that define, constitute and mediate trans-border relations between states, cultures, citizens, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations and the market—the wielders and the objects of the exercise of international public power” (Weiss and Thakur).
What is Global Governance?
This is the IGO must commonly associated with Global Health Governance.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
This branch of international law is concerned with acts that take place within the context of an armed conflict.
What is The Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) or International Humanitarian Law?
Drug cartels and smuggling networks are examples of this global challenge.
What are transnational criminal networks?
This movie, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon, depicts a global health challenge.
What is Contagion?
"...created by states through multilateral treaties that act like a constitution in that the states parties are consenting to be bound by the treaty that sets up the agencies, functions, and purposes of the organization."
What are Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)?
This IGO is situated in the Hague, Netherlands. The Lubango trial took place here.
What is the International Criminal Court (ICC)?
This branch of international law is designed to promote and protect human rights at the international, regional and domestic levels.
What is International Human Rights Law?
Covid-19, Ebola, and infant mortality are examples of this global challenge.
What is Global Health Governance?
This movie details the creation of the R2P norm.
What is Shake Hands With The Devil?
“A body of rules which binds states and other agents in world politics in their relations with one another and is considered to have the status of law.”
What is International Law?
UNHCR, UNDP, and UNESCO are all part of this IGO.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
This branch of international law regulates the behavior of states, organizations, and individuals operating across boundaries in committing international crimes.
What is International Criminal Law?
World War I, the war in Vietnam, and the Suez Crisis are examples of this global challenge.
What is War and Conflict?
This movie, in which Brad Pitt has to fight off zombies, depicts the UN organizing an international response.
What is World War Z?
"Institutions that help their members cooperate militarily in the event of a war."
What are Alliances?
This IGO was designed with two purposes in mind: to help rebuild the war-town economies of the world after World War II and to help with the economic development of the Global South.
What is the World Bank?
This branch of International Law is grounded in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol
What is International Refugee Law?
The influx of migrants from the Southern Triangle Region and the boat people of Lampedusa are examples of this global challenge.
What is international migration? (Also accept: Asylum/ Refugee flows)
This movie, starring Benecio Del Toro and Emily Blunt, features a task force focusing on transnational criminal networks selling illegal drugs.
What is Sicario?
"Interventions designed to relieve humanitarian crises stemming from civil conflicts or large-scale human rights abuses, including genocide."
What is Humanitarian Intervention?
This IGO was designed to help with this rebuilding process after WWII, and with overseeing the international monetary system to make sure that a situation resulting in another Great Depression would never occur again.
What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
The ICTR and ICTY trials are examples of this branch of International Law in action.
What is International Criminal Law?
Climate change, CO2 emissions, and the protection of the global water supply are examples of this global challenge.
What is environmental governance?
These seasonal movies, including, "Romance With a Twist", "Yes Chef Christmas", and "Noel Next Door" were directed by Dr. McGuire's cousin.
What are Hallmark Movies?