GROUP 2

Aburan, Jarwin J
Acharon, Ma. Abegail D.
Alarcado, Kaye Y.
Alforque, Rayjane H.
Alido, Jessa Mae D.
THE UNITED
NATIONS
AND
CONTEMPORARY
GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE
Learning Outcomes

At the end this lesson, you should be able to:

 Define global governance;
 Identify the roles and functions of the United Nations: and
 Determine the challenges of Global Governance in the
twenty-first century.
WHAT IS GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE?
 Global Governance

 refers to the various intersecting processes that

create this order.
  is a process of international cooperation among 
transnational actors, aimed at negotiating responses
to problems that affect more than one state or
region.
What is an International
Organization?
 International Organization

- It refers to international intergovernmental

organizations or groups that are primarily made
up of member-states.
 International Organizations/Institutions

United Nations (UN)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
World Bank
 Michael N. Barnett

Martha Finnemore

International relations scholars who listed the powers of International Organizations

(IOs)
 Powers of IOs

IOs have the power of Classification.

IOs have the power to fix meanings.
IOs have the power to diffuse norms.
The United Nations
UN 5 ACTIVE ORGANS

General Assembly (GA)

Security Council (SC)
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
International Court of Justice
The Secretariat/Secretary-General
General Assembly (GA)

 main deliberative, policymaking and representative

organ of the UN.
193 Member States
 Carlos P. Romulo- GA President from 1949-50
 Security Council (SC)
 primary responsibility, under the UN Charter, for the maintenance of
international peace and security. 
 It has 15 Members (5 permanent and 10 non-permanent members).
- China
- France
- Russia
- United Kingdom
- United States
 The Security Council has a Presidency, which rotates, and changes, every
month.
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

principal body for coordination, policy review, policy dialogue and

recommendations on economic, social and environmental issues, as
well as implementation of internationally agreed development goals.
It has 54 Members, elected by the General Assembly for overlapping
three-year terms.
It is the United Nations’ central platform for reflection, debate, and
innovative thinking on sustainable development.
 International Court of Justice

 principal judicial organ of the United Nations.

 Its seat is at the Peace Palace in the Hague (Netherlands).
 It is the only one of the six principal organs of the United Nations
not located in New York (United States of America).
 to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes
submitted to it by States and to give advisory opinions on legal
questions referred to it by authorized United Nations organs and
specialized agencies.
The Secretariat

comprises the Secretary-General and tens of thousands

of international UN staff members who carry out the
day-to-day work of the UN as mandated by the General
Assembly and the Organization's other principal bodies.
Salvador P. Lopez
 appointed by President 
Diosdado Macapagal as Secretary of
Foreign Affairs
 Was a Chairman of the United Nations
Commission on Human Rights in the year
1960’s.
 Part of creating the Human Rights
Arbitration rules in the United Nations
Challenges of the United Nations

 States refuse to cooperate

 Issues of Security/ Threats to Peace and Security
 Syria Civil War
 Impact of Iraq on the UN
Thank You!!! 