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What are the benefits and disadvantages of being a member of international and/or intergovernmental organizations?

Caroline / unit 2 evaluation

19/11/2021

what are international organizations/ intergovernmental organizations

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

International organizations are entities established by formal political agreements between their members that have the status of international treaties; their existence is recognized by law in their member countries; they are not treated as resident institutional units of the countries in which they are located.

what/ definitions

INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS:

The term intergovernmental organization (IGO) refers to an entity created by treaty, involving two or more nations, to work in good faith, on issues of common interest. In the absence of a treaty an IGO does not exist in the legal sense.

advantages

advantages of being apart of international/ intergovernmental organizations

  • you get to be there when important decisions are being made
  • can get resources/money for your country if your country is in need
  • your country knows whats going on on a global scale so it ca prepare for a better future
  • gain material and non-material resources for economic prosperity
  • get more political stability for your country and for other states
  • form new military alliances
  • your country gets to hold a state of authority

Sometimes IGOs can be effective . For example, the World Bank helps out developping countries with money and teaches them how to grow on their own and reduced poverty.

disadvantages

disadvantages (demonstrated through the Paris climate agreement

The Agreements limit won’t protect all countries and locations from the impacts of climate change. For vulnerable climates close to deserts, such as the Sahel region of Africa, the climate targets don’t go far enough to protect the people living there.

NGOs/IGOSs wont always protect every country even the esspeacially vulnerable ones.

what is the Paris climate agreement?:

The Paris Agreement sets out a global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. It also aims to strengthen countries ability to deal with the impacts of climate change and support them in their efforts.

Countries have so far only voluntarily made pledges (nationally declared contributions) to keep the atmospheric temperature below 2.7-3.0 degrees Celsius, which won’t get us anywhere close to the 1.5 degree Celsius “comfort zone.”

a lot of the goals sett by these organizations cant always be achieved wich causes chaose and sometimes conflict within the organization and/or the state/country

Rivalries and diplomatic tension makes the “balance of inequalities” portion of the Paris Agreement particularly hard to implement. For instance, the U.S. agreed to voluntarily pay $3 billion dollars under the commitments made by President Obama.

joining these organisations can be highlly pricey. not everyone in the country/state agrees to paying.

podcast description

podcast

my podcast talks about IGOs/INGOs and the advantages and disadvantes of being apart of them. i interviewed my mom who is actually a member of quite a few of these orginisations like the OECD! so shes speaking from experince!

LINK

podcast link!

https://anchor.fm/caroline-adams73/episodes/A-seat-at-the-table-e1ae4nu

bibliography

Bibliography

Directorate, OECD Statistics. “Glossary of Statistical Terms.” OECD Glossary of statistical terms - international organisations definition. Accessed November 18, 2021. https://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=1434.

“Intergovernmental Organization.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, September 29, 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_organization.

“Paris Agreement.” Climate Action. Accessed November 19, 2021. https://ec.europa.eu/clima/eu-action/international-action-climate-change/climate-negotiations/paris-agreement_en.

“Trump, the Paris Agreement and Climate Change: What Gives?” – Healthy Human. Accessed November 18, 2021. https://healthyhumanlife.com/blogs/news/paris-agreement-pros-and-cons.

“World Bank Group - International Development, Poverty, & Sustainability.” World Bank. Accessed November 19, 2021. http://www.worldbank.org/.

concepts of political thinking

concepts of political thinking

with the question of what are the advantages and disadvantages of being a member of international and/or intergovernmental organizations? there are lots of ways you can about answering it. there are also a lot ways to anylyse the question with the concepts of political thinking. i have chosen political significance, objectives and results and political perspectives.

political significance

political significance

when countries decide that the pros outweigh the Cons to join and IGO or NIGO and decide to joins, politics on a national and global scale. When countries with more political and economic power decide to join organisations such as the UN and the WHO they can provide resources in mand money for the countries that are less fortunate. This makes the world more of an equal place politically and economically.

objectives and results

objectives and results

Sometimes when countries/states join these oganizations they can sometimes expect a more positive outcame than what is achieved. This is demonstrated in the Paris Climate agreement when countries such as the US and Canada join and expected for climate change to disappear completely and for them to keep their average rise in temperature under 1.5 celcius a year. Every year they miss their targets and climate change is rapidly getting worse each year despite their efforts.

political perspectives

political perspectives

Taking all this into consideration, different countries/states have different perspectives on each of these organizations. When choosing to join some countries like the US might value differet things such as power and status whereas some of the Nordic countries who value happiness and the environment. Because of this their participation and choice of organizations may differ. Also countries within these organizations with their different values may think differently and have opposing opinions on the goals of the organization and the benchmarks they must meet. Because of this, these organizations are all about peach, compromise and striving to make the world a better place.

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