Lecture 13 the changing agenda of world politics
- 1. The changing agenda of world politics Agenda 1 EUA 601 and 620 Contemporary World Arena
- 3. How is it decided… what’s important and what’s not
- 4. Nature and content of the international agenda 1
- 5. links between issues and agendas 2
- 6. how agendas emerge and change 3
- 7. nature and content of international agenda 1
- 9. uk
- 13. When you don’t exist
- 19. What is an agenda, and how is it shaped?
- 20. those issues currently the subject of international attention international agenda
- 23. Phenomenon that attracts the attention of those who engage in that activity and requires the expenditure of resources in some form White, Little & Smith: 5
- 28. Some are both
- 29. Amnesty International Campaign in Candles
- 30. It’s an issue when… someone influential says it is
- 31. links between issues and agendas 2
- 32. Just because it’s an issue, doesn’t put it on the agenda “
- 33. Variety of pressures push issues up or down international agenda fluid, not static
- 34. Place of issue on agenda depends on...
- 37. urgency
- 38. visibility George Clooney, Oxfam and 100 million signatures from a global viral video? or
- 39. To key decision makers and resource holdersvancerele
- 40. how agendas emerge and change 3
- 42. actors states, state agencies, IGOs, INGOs, NGOs, BINGOs, civil society, media, individuals
- 43. Local interest groups UN, NATO World Bank, IMF, WTO Spin doctors, lobbyists Greenpeace, Red Cross/Crescent Civil society Supra national Intergovernmental Intragovernmental Transnational levels
- 44. and laws norms
- 45. International Lawlegal rules & procedures including treaties, resolutions & customs
- 46. International Institutionsbodies which project and regulate norms
- 47. International Regimescombination of tangible rules & arrangements, unevenly applied
- 48. policy Foreign
- 50. powerin the international system Comment on
- 51. Is an issue only an issue if powerful forces decide so? is bhopal no longer an issue? Agent Orange?
- 52. for whom are these things no longer issues? Is someone deciding what’s important and what’s not?
- 53. ngos? you? me? public pressure?
- 55. Agenda dictated by most powerful states realism Security defined by social rules and political privilege constructivism States now accompanied by multitude of actors liberalism Security defined by elites at the cost of masses marxism
Editor's Notes
- #42: Case studies will be prepared with that frame in mind, you should prepare with that hook (to hang issues) in mind too