Orgs #1 - WEEK 6 ORGS #1 Intro to Conflict/Cooperation It...

WEEK 6
ORGS #1
Intro to Conflict/Cooperation
 It started out with people fighting the other person and the toughest winning
o Then it turned into tribes fighting each other and nations fighting each
other
o Then nation states fighting each other
o 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
o This is a product of the last 60 to 70 years
o These groups of states working together are called Supranationalist
Organizations
 Supranationalist Organizations
 Supra is a Latin word means across
 National is nations
o Supranationalist = across nations
o These organizations are over, and above, and supersede simple
boundaries
o These 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 they
changing the way that events on the international stage are unfolding?

o Let’s sort out this international soup of international groups (country
clubs)
The Changing Nature of Cooperation
 Why are these things happening right now?
o This is kind of a very new phenomena
o They are gaining in popularity and in number
o He personally believes these organizations will soon supersede the
concept of the sovereign state in its entirety in the next 100 years
o In the last few years, all states have joined at least 1 of these
organizations
 These are the entities that are going to be going to war with
each other and doing economic business together
 So Why Now? These are a product of the modern era (the start – end of world
war 2 1945)
o Humans had been fighting and have been having conflict with each
other for forever