IGOs and Courts
A threat to global peace or self defense.
What are permissible uses of force under the UN Charter?
A situation where individuals acting in their own self-interest deplete a shared resource.
What is the tragedy of the commons?
It was established to continue the fight to contain communicable diseases and develop eradication programs for certain diseases.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
The principle that people cannot be forced to return to their (presumably dangerous) country of origin.
What is non-refoulement?
Conventions and treaties; custom; general principles of law; decisions and writings.
What are sources of international law?
Investigates individuals and tries them for crimes against humanity and other human rights violations.
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol reflects this approach to climate change.
What is mitigation?
This perspective emphasizes the role of domestic actors and how they create consequences for global health priorities.
What is liberalism?
This perspective emphasizes economic and national security with regard to migration.
What is realism?
National security, infrastructure, and clean air are examples of this type of good.
What is a public good?
Resolutions from this UN body are not legally binding.
What is the UN General Assembly?
A transnational community of experts and technical specialists from international organizations, NGOs, and state and substate agencies that share a set of beliefs.
What is an epistemic community?
This is one of the WHO's best success stories.
What is the eradication of small pox?
Economic and climate migrants; not-yet-adjudicated asylum seekers; internally-displaced peoples.
Who are groups of people not protected by international law?
The ability of a country or firm to produce a particular good or service more efficiently than it can produce other goods or services, such that its resources are most efficiently employed in this activity.
What is comparative advantage?
The principle that some crimes are so heinous that all countries have a responsibility to prosecute the offenders.
What is universal jurisdiction?
Nonbinding norms of state behavior.
What is soft law?
This country recently withdrew membership from the WHO.
What is the United States?
A person fleeing persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
Realists think this leads to war; its converse preserves peace.
What are power imbalances?
Settles legal disputes between countries, only after the countries agree there is a dispute to settle in this particular organization.
What is the International Court of Justice?
Our understanding of the environment as "out there" rather than facilitating a larger understanding of "ecological security."
Global health issues relate to this specific perspective because communicable diseases blur the lines of sovereignty and responsibility (not any of the Big Three).
What is functionalism?
A vast majority of the world's refugees reside in these.
What are least-developed countries?
A tool of governments to influence macroeconomic conditions such as unemployment, inflation, and economic growth. Typically, governments alter these policies by changing national interest rates or exchange rates.
What is monetary policy?