Chapter 6. International Organizations (Shazelina Abidin).

 

1. Explain the importance of international organizations 

for our everyday lives. 

2. Define IGOs.

3. Explain the structures of IGOs. 

4. Explain the United Nations as the prime example of 

an IGO. 

5. List the 6 main organs of the UN. 

6. What is the most important of these organs?

7. Explain the difference between membership and 

participation in an IGO. 

8. Explain the difference between Global governance 

and Global government (p. 73). Is there any authority 

above the states? 

9. All IGOs are intergovernmental. What does it mean?

10. What is a Supranational organization?

11. Explain the discontents at the origin of Brexit. 

12. What do the most typical IGOs do? Explain their ties 

to the UN (p. 74). 

13. Define the Commonwealth of Nations and the 

BRICS (p. 74). 

14. How would you define an INGO? (p. 75).

15. Define the work of Greenpeace (p. 75). 

16. Define a Hybrid Organization (p. 75). 

17. Define the Geneva Conventions (p. 76). 

18. According to the author, International Organizations 

have eroded state impunity. Why? (p. 76). 

19. Explain the importance of the Earth Summit 

-Rio de Janeiro, 1992-.