Instructor: Marsha B. Cohen

Final Exam, INR 3502

International Organizations –Spring 2004

Due April 14, 2004 (last class)

Part I: Answer any three of the following essay questions. Your answer to each question should be a minimum of one (double-spaced typed) page and a maximum of than 3 pages. (Maximum point value: 30 points each).

1) What were the characteristics, context and challenges of each of the four phases in the evolution of the UN’s involvement with economic development?

2) Summarize Clifford Bob’s arguments in “Merchants of Morality” concerning how and why certain global injustices attract attention and gain support and others do not. What role do NGOs play in this process?

3) What are some of the factors to which the success of human rights governance can be attributed? What are some of the obstacles that have hampered its effectiveness, and why?

4) What are global common spaces? What are some of the regimes that have been created for managing and protecting them?

Part II: Mini question (1 paragraph): 10 points

Objectively evaluate your performance in this class, including the diligence completion of assigned readings prior to class; the time and effort you put into class preparation; the researching and writing your project; your attendance and your class participation. If you were grading someone (other than yourself )according to these same factors and for exactly the same effort and performance, what grade would you give them and why?

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