WEEK 6
ORGS #1
Intro to Conflict/Cooperation
It started out with people fighting the other person and the toughest winning
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Then it turned into tribes fighting each other and nations fighting each
other
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Then nation states fighting each other
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And now states fight each other
Increasingly in today’s world, the 21
st
century, the states are working
together with each other like never before
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This is a product of the last 60 to 70 years
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These groups of states working together are called Supranationalist
Organizations
Supranationalist Organizations
Supra is a Latin word means across
National is nations
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Supranationalist = across nations
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These organizations are over, and above, and supersede simple
boundaries
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These are sovereign states working together to do something
What motivates a sovereign state to get together with another state?
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Money, security, cultural commonality
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Everyone one of these organizations has some sort of mission which
binds the states together
A mission which all of the states in the club feel as if they can
achieve better in the group than if they went at it alone
So many different acronyms for these organizations
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EU
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AU
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UN
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NATO
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- Fall '08
- JDBOYER
- United Nations , International Trade, World Trade Organization
