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    HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL

    ORGANIZATIONS
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suIKXQR9N2w

    Economic Organizations (12 min)


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPKf24_pXfQ
    LEAGUE OF NATIONS
    • Supposed to preserve world peace after WWI

    • 14th point of FOURTEEN POINTS

    • Not everyone joined and not everyone stayed

    • Was ineffective (did not stop Italy in Ethiopia,


    Japan in China and Hitler’s continuing
    aggressive stance in Europe)
    UNITED NATIONS (1945- present)
    • Work at world peace, safety, economic
    development worldwide, social advancement of
    all peoples

    • Security Council (5 permanent members), WHO,


    General Assembly, UNICEF
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cqw8-
    ongtY 3 min history of UN
    Non-Governmental Organizations
    (NGO’s and INGO’s)
    • Often connected to human rights, hunger and
    equality access to health care for all people

    • Doctors Without Borders


    • Amnesty International
    • Green Peace
    • Oxfam
    POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS
    • NATO

    • WARSAW PACT

    • EUROPEAN UNION (also economic)


    ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION
    WHY?
    •Since WWII, capitalist victors wanted to avoid
    Depression-era conditions

    •Wanted to create “rules” for commercial and


    financial dealings among capitalist countries as
    well as promote free trade, stable currency
    (linked to US dollar) and capital investment
    WTO – WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
    • Not a trade block
    • 153 Organizations
    • Facilitates free trade, ends trade disputes

    • BUT – very controversial…a force of


    globalization; interests of global corporations;
    have too much control
    • Seattle WTO conferences = violence
    IMF – International Monetary Fund
    • Rich countries contribute to this fund to stabilize world
    economy – lends money to countries that need it

    • Benefits: help countries who need help

    • Controversy:
    If countries cannot pay it back, IMF can come in and force
    economic change to government (slash education, military,
    etc…) – AUSTERITY MEASURES
    • Sometimes lend to corrupt dictators who steal money and then
    country is “on the hook”
    • Starting to run out of money
    REGIONAL ECONOMIC GROUPS
    • OPEC (Organization of Oil Exporting Countries)
    • Very powerful – formed in 1960
    • Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia)
    • NAFTA (North American Free Trade Association)
    • Canada, US, Mexico – free trade zone for products
    • EU (European Union)
    • Share currency, passport, free trade zone
    HOW CAN ORGANIZATIONS
    EFFECT CHANGE?
    • ECONOMIC SANCTIONS
    – Embargoes, boycotts, freezing of assets,
    restrictions on investments
    – Can harm a country’s economy
    – Really only wielded by rich nations
    See this video (from 5:00 – end)
    • IMF, World Bank, WTO
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?
    v=XPKf24_pXf

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