WEEK 6 ORGS #1 Intro to Conflict/Cooperation It started out with people fighting the other person and the toughest winning oThen it turned into tribes fighting each other and nations fighting each other oThen nation states fighting each other oAnd now states fight each other Increasingly in today’s world, the 21stcentury, the states are working together with each other like never before oThis is a product of the last 60 to 70 years oThese groups of states working together are called Supranationalist Organizations Supranationalist Organizations Supra is a Latin word means across National is nations oSupranationalist = across nations oThese organizations are over, and above, and supersede simple boundaries oThese are sovereign states working together to do something What motivates a sovereign state to get together with another state?
What do the acronyms mean and what are their goals and how are theychanging the way that events on the international stage are unfolding?