1. The changing agenda of world politics Agenda 1 EUA 601 and 620 Contemporary World Arena

2. todaywhat happens 3. How is it decided whats important and whats 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 8. Examples of agendas 9. uk 10. When you dont exist 11. http://www.state.gov/policy/ (25 Oct 13) 12. What is an agenda, and how is it shaped? 13. those issues currently the subject of international attention international agenda 14. Whats an issue? 15. 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 16. Random and spontaneous 17. planned and orchestrated 18. Some are both 19. Amnesty International Campaign in Candles 20. Its an issue when someone influential says it is 21. links between issues and agendas 2 22. Just because its an issue, doesnt put it on the agenda 23. Variety of pressures push issues up or down international agenda fluid, not static 24. Place of issue on agenda depends on... 25. Extent number of countries/ groups/people affected 26. urgency 27. visibility George Clooney, Oxfam and 100 million signatures from a global viral video? or 28. To key decision makers and resource holdersvancerele 29. how agendas emerge and change 3 30. Framing international issues Actors Levels Norms & laws Policy 31. actors states, state agencies, IGOs, INGOs, NGOs, BINGOs, civil society, media, individuals 32. Local interest groups UN, NATO World Bank, IMF, WTO Spin doctors, lobbyists Greenpeace, Red Cross/Crescent Civil society Supra national Intergovernmental Intragovernmental Transnational levels 33. and laws norms 34. International Lawlegal rules & procedures including treaties, resolutions & customs 35. International Institutionsbodies which project and regulate norms 36. International Regimescombination of tangible rules & arrangements, unevenly applied 37. policy Foreign 38. powerin the international system Comment on 39. Is an issue only an issue if powerful forces decide so? is bhopal no longer an issue? Agent Orange? 40. for whom are these things no longer issues? Is someone deciding whats important and whats not? 41. ngos? you? me? public pressure? 42. 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