Summary International Organizations Broad Overview Notes from Ch 1

These notes cover chapter 1 of "International Organizations" (3rd edition), by Karns, Mingst and Stiles. Summary: Addressing global issues like climate change, terrorism, pandemics, human rights violations, ethnic discrimination, genocide, harmfully overzealous nationalism, failing nation-states, poverty, and nuclear weapon proliferation can only be effectively done through the cooperation of sovereign states with one another and with benevolent non-state actors. In the interest of furthering/understanding human and environmental wellness, as well as human rights needs, it is necessary for state and non-state actors to collaborate in continuously building and renovating the international policies, institutionalized human rights norms, societal framework, humanitarian aid ideologies and methodologies, and organizational connectivity networks through the evolution of global governance. The growing need, and awareness of the growing need, for global governance has been brought about by globalization, the sharing of technological advances made possible by globalization, the end of the Cold War, and exponentially increasing transnationalism.