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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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