LibGuides: SOC-3010 Global Civics: Week 7 Resources

Week 7 Resources

Review the resources listed below to prepare for this week’s assignments. The resources may include textbook reading assignments, journal articles, websites, links to tools or software, videos, handouts, rubrics, etc.

International Consumer Protection at the United Nations: Towards Global Governance?

Originally a component of state and national laws, consumer protection laws are operating at a more global level due to cross-border challenges. This article reviews these emerging laws and how they represent governance on a global scale. After you read this article, take some time to think about how these laws, after not just businesses but people as well.

International Consumer Protection at the United Nations: Towards Global Governance? This article aims to conceptualize the current and emerging global governance regime on consumer protection. Although consumer protection laws have until recently been a feature at the national level, often as a result of increased standard of living, the number of cross-border challenges has grown and there is a shift from the national and regional levels to the global stage. International consumer protection combines issues of law, governance and trade. Hitherto, the internationalization of consumer law has been primarily through soft law most notably, the revised United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection (UNGCP) of 2015. One important feature of the UNGCP is the creation of an international institutional machinery under the auspices of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to oversee the implementation of the Guidelines.

Izaguerri Vila, A. (2020). International consumer protection at the United Nations: Towards global governance? Journal of Consumer Policy, 43(1), 91-103. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=shib&custid=natuniv&direct=true&db=bth&AN=141899097&site=eds-live

Fighting Financial Crime: Who Designs Global Governance and Who Does the Work?

Financial crimes occur everywhere, but a preponderance occurs across national borders. Money laundering and terrorist financing are examples. This article describes global cooperation, including its development, structure, and operations as a global governance mechanism. After reading this article, you will have a better understanding of the impact this issue has on global finance and the world.

Fighting Financial Crime_ Who Designs Global Governance and Who Does the Work Fighting financial crime is a highly institutionalised global governance task. At a time of crisis for many of the institutions of global governance, tackling money laundering and combatting terrorist financing through global cooperation continues to be a priority for public officials. The global regime, if anything, is intensifying. This essay provides an overview of the regime’s development and addresses questions of design and implementation. It is structured around three sets of questions: (1) What does the regime look like and what is it for? (2) Who does the work? (3) And, in conclusion, what can we say about winners and losers?

Tsingoue, E., (2020). Fighting financial crime: Who designs global governance and who does the work? Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 13, 169-179. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=shib&custid=natuniv&direct=true&db=edssjs&AN=edssjs.9D7B9F6B&site=eds-live

Global Governance: Three Futures

The article explores three potential directions for global governance. These include fragmentation, stagnation, and transformation.

Global Governance: Three Futures Since the end of Cold War, three sets of actors have produced change in global governance, change that could be threatening and transformative for existing global governance institutions and the future of international cooperation. Three alternative futures have emerged: fragmentation, stagnation, and transformation. Emerging powers--and some established powers--have promoted new regional institutions that offer useful competition but also the threat of fragmentation. Divergence of preferences between emerging and incumbent powers have also produced stagnation, but the greatest threat of stagnation has come with the rise of populist and nationalist movements that have now found a voice in two powerful countries, the U.S. and the U.K. Finally, non-state and subnational actors have produced new modes of governance, in which national governments and intergovernmental organizations play a reduced, though often strategic role. United States withdrawal from or disruption of global governance would alter the likelihood that these futures will emerge.

Kahler, M. (2018). Global governance: Three futures. International Studies Review, 20(2), 239-246.https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.48557393&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=natuniv

From National Sovereignty to Global Government: Is There a Plausible Transition Path?

Global governance means, by necessity, a lessening of national sovereignty. The author reviews the prospects and potential of this pathway from a national political state to inclusion within a global one.

Read pages 78-106

Beyond Global Governance by James A. Yunker In these ground-breaking essays, James A. Yunker issues a powerful challenge to conventional thinking on world government. Based on an innovative plan for a limited world government tentatively designated the "Federal Union of Democratic Nations," this book envisions a legitimate world government a quantum leap beyond the United Nations of today. The Federal Union proposed would operate under some key restraints, such as a dual voting system in the world legislature, and two key reserved rights of the member nations: to withdraw from the Federal Union at their own unilateral discretion, and to maintain independent control over whatever military forces they feel are necessary to their national security. Yunker demonstrates how these restraints would minimize the possibility that the world government would result in such adverse outcomes as global tyranny, bureaucratic overload, or cultural homogenization.
ISBN: 9780761863618
Publication Date: 2014-01-01

Yunker, J. (2014). Beyond global governance: Prospects for global government. In J. Yunker (Ed.), Beyond Global Governance (pp. 78-106). New York, NY: University Press of America. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nu/reader.action?docID=1687301&ppg=92

German FM on Globalization, Brexit

The European Union (E.U.) is seen as a model of what a global government could look like. In this video, the Foreign Minister of Germany comments on the spread of globalization and the challenge the United Kingdom leaves the E.U., known as Brexit.

German FM on Globalization, Brexit

Associated Press. (2017). German FM on globalization, Brexit. [Video]. USA: Associated Press. https://youtu.be/vBfEDLS-6XU?si=bjjRQ_IZBJXTxeAh

The Need for a Global Government: Democracy in the Planetary Age

The fragmentation of the world into about 200 nation-states presents challenges for the successful future of humanity. The article discusses the need for a global government in a world that is increasingly reliant on technology, infrastructure and economics that transcend national boundaries.

The Need for a Global Government: Democracy in the Planetary Age

Leinen, J., & Bummel, A. (2019). The need for a global government: Democracy in the planetary age. Cadmus, 3(6), 156-162. http://cadmusjournal.org/files/pdfreprints/vol3issue6/The-Need-for-Global-Government-JLleinen-ABummel-Cadmus-V3-I6.pdf

Global Peace Index of Economies

Global peace is a contributor to and product of global governance. The article looks at the relative peace globally, by correlating economic measures in the development of a Global Peace Index.

Global Peace index of Economies This paper analyzes the Global Peace Index, the Positive Peace Report and other data relating to the peacefulness of states. It focuses on which areas are more peaceful, which are more violent, and which moved in a positive or negative direction in 2017 and also indicates the value of global peace indexes. This includes the various macroeconomic indicators of economies that determine global peace and which states are improving and which need to be transformed to develop positive peace and peaceful societies. The paper concludes with the note that achieving positive peace and attaining peaceful societies requires us to tackle various problems of economies that are global in nature, such as climate change, ever decreasing bio-diversity, increasing migration and overpopulation, cross-border terrorism, human rights violations, wars, and international conflict.

Sarangi, U. (2018). Global Peace index of economies. International Journal on World Peace, 35(2), 7-25. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.45014444&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=natuniv