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V. States and Other Major International Entities
A. States and Their Governments
1. What is a “State”?
Restatement Section 201, Comment
Notes and Questions
Table 5-1. Illustrative States and Other Entities
2. Who Decides What Is a State?
Restatement Section 201, Comment h
3. What is the Effect of Being a State?
Restatement Section 206
Note on the International Legal Status of the Holy See and the State of Vatican City
Questions
4. Who Governs the State?
P.K. Menon, The Law of Recognition in International Law
5. What is the Significance of Recognition?
Restatement Section 206
Note on the Special Status of Taiwan
Taiwan Relations Act
Notes and Questions
6. And Then the Recognized Government Changes:
Who is Responsible for What?
Notes and Questions
7. State Succession
Restatement Section 209, Comment & Section 210
Geoffrey Watson, The Law of State Succession
Notes and Questions
B. Territories and Peoples
1. Puerto Rico
Notes and Questions
2. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
Notes and Questions
C. International and Regional Entities
1. An Overview
2. International Institutions
a. The United Nations: Its Structure, Purposes, and Future
United Nations, Basic Facts About the United Nations
Notes
Charles William Maynes & Richard S. Williamson, U.S. Foreign Policy and the United Nations System
Independent Task Force Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and Freedom House, Enhancing U.S. Leadership at the United Nations (David Dreier & Lee H. Hamilton, co-chairs)
Questions
Bibliography
b. The International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank Group
1) IMF: Purpose and Function
2) The World Bank Group: Purpose and Function
3) The IMF and World Bank: Structure
4) The Changing Roles and Relationship of the IMF
and the World Bank in the 1970s and 1980s
5) U.S. Influence over International Financial
Institutions
6) The Demanding 1990s
David D. Driscoll, What is the International Monetary Fund?
Stephen R. Pearlstein, Background: Understanding the Asian Economic Crisis
Martin Feldstein, Refocusing the IMF
Report of an Independent Task Force Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, Safeguarding Prosperity in a Global Financial System: The Future International Financial Architecture
Notes and Questions
Bibliography
c. The World Trade Organization (WTO) and the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
1) The GATT
2) The World Trade Organization
What is the WTO?
Chart 5-1. Structure of the WTO
Andreas Lowenfeld, Remedies Along with Rights: Institutional Reform in the New GATT
Notes and Questions
d. The Group of Eight (and Sometimes Seven)
e. The Group of 77
3. Regional Institutions
a. The European Union
1) History and Background
Trevor Hartley, The Foundation of European Community Law
2) The Single European Act and 1992
3) The Treaty on European Union (Maastricht Treaty)
4) The Treaty of Amsterdam
5) Political Structure
George A. Bermann, Roger J. Goebel, William J. Davey & Eleanor M. Fox, Cases and Materials on European Union Law
Trevor Hartley, The Foundations of European Community Law
Chart 5-2. The Co-decision Procedure
6) The European Union’s Budget
7) What Does It All Add Up To?
Notes and Questions
8) The European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)
9) The External Activities of the European Union
Jurgen Schwarze, Towards a European Foreign Policy - Legal Aspects
Giorgio Maganza, The Treaty of Amsterdam's Changes to the Common Foreign and Security Policy Chapter and an Overview of the Opening Enlargement Process
Process
10) Expanding the European Union
11) A More Integrated Union
Notes and Questions
b. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
c. The Organization on Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE)
Notes and Questions
d. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
e. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
f. The Organization of American States (OAS)
g. The African Union (AU)
Questions
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