Globalization – Empire Building

European Union

• Promotes peace
• Has raised living standards
• Is probably the “model” economic union in the world today.

What is NATO Becoming?

NATO trying to keep the peace in Kosovo

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NAFTA begins in controversy

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NAFTA (trade & investment only)

• Canada & USA
• Canada, USA, & Mexico
• More resistance in USA to Mexico joining
• Maquiladoras in northern Mexico
• Mexico may have developed real democracy
• Expansion
• Talks have been going on with Chile
• Andean & Middle American trade unions
• Talk of eventually the whole Western Hemisphere except for Cuba (Cuba will probably change after Castro dies)

NAFTA Trade Flows

International Level

• League of Nations
• United Nations

UN Strengths

• Moral force in the world
• Forum for discussion & negotiation
• UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Peace keeping forces in trouble spots
• Special agencies – improve social, medical, & educational conditions world wide
• World Court to settle disputes

UN Weaknesses

• Yearly income not guaranteed
• USA didn’t pay its assessment for years
• Permanent members with veto power in the security council
• No standing police force or military to enforce its resolutions – countries censured, often ignore the resolutions

UN Encroachment on Sovereignty Needed to Handle Some Problems

• States have limited jurisdiction on transnational corporations (multi-nationals)
• Globalization of justice
• Crimes against humanity – International War Crimes and Genocide Tribunal established
• Human rights – Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Different cultures view individual rights and community rights differently
• Different views of individual’s social responsibility