Introduction
Agreements on International Public Policy have never been as abundant as in the last century. In the meantime, Globalisation has become a major phenomenon around the world, at various levels. So, it will be interesting to know if globalisation makes agreements on International Public Policy easier or harder.
Looking towards history, Globalisation has deeply affected both national and international way of governance. Focus will be made on the economical and political aspects of globalisation and its effects on IPP1 in those fields.
“Globalisation” has been very difficult to define clearly, and many scholars tried to give a accurate description. To link globalisation to IPP, let's see how agreements on IPP evolved concurrently to globalisation, some successfully, some with failure.
Aspects like climate change, human right law, the European Union, WTO, World Bank and the financial crisis of 2008 will be examined to demonstrate that globalisation had a paradoxical effect on global governance, but mostly positive.
As globalisation was expanding, agreements on IPP were made easier towards international institutions. But, a question rises among this assumption: Is it ONLY globalisation that eased agreements on IPP? Or does crises play a role too ?
At the end of this paper, the relation between IPP and crises will be analysed and linked to globalisation in order to conclude on the topic.
1: IPP = International Public Policy

Correlation between IPP and Globalisation
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I will begin by briefly reintroducing you to what globalisation is and what changes in brings. Then I will move on to answering the first part of the question referring to a few resources and examples, during this discussion I will also state my opinion on this matter. The second part of the question will be answered in the same manner as the first one. After the main body of my argument I will summarize and conclude.
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Globalisation has been associated with three main eras throughout the last century, whereby many facets contributing towards a gradual integration of economies (Gunter & Van der Hoeven, 2004) were hampered by global happenings (Preble, 2010). The first era was highlighted by trade and was projected to increase further. However, the arrival of World War I ensured trade protectionism and reprisal (Elliot, 2006, as cited in Preble, 2010). After the war, economies were starting to integrate and many factors, including the establishment of the...
Globalisation began at the time of colonisation and the industrial revolution. This was the start of globalisation; it briefly stopped during the First and Second World War because most of the industrial nations were involved in both wars. The current process of globalisation is created by the role of economy in globalising the world. It is very important to apply Marx’s theory of globalised capitalism in order to understand how the economy can produce globalism. Globalisation is economically determined through the establishment of international organisations and companies which function multilaterally by members from all over the world. The most important ones are the World Trade Organisations, International Monetary Fund, and Corporations. This essay explores how the economy plays a major part in shaping globalisation by revealing this role in areas like Trade, Finance a...
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Globalization can briefly be defined as ‘something’ that affects and changes the traditional arrangements of the state system. It is a term that directly implies change and therefore is a continuos process over a long period of time as compared to quickly changing into a wanted or desir...
The term globalisation describes the process of becoming worldwide in scope or application, and the increasing interdependency of nation-sates. At least - that gives us one loose definition for globalisation, but as Scholte (2000) realises, globalisation is a thoroughly contested subject, with arguments extend across the issue of definition as well as measurement, chronology, explanation and normative judgement. In fact, Scholte identifies five contrasting definitions for the word 'globalisation' as used by a number of the subject's commentators and critics - internationalisation, liberalisation, universalisation, western/modernisation and deterrioralisation are (2000: 13).
However, there are key traits that are agreed upon by many, if not most, researchers in the field. There are two key traits that are relevant for the current paper. The first trait is that globalisation transcends traditional boundaries. For example, Mohammad Abed-Aljabbari defines globalisation as system that ‘extend[s] a culture and transferring it to other countries’ . This means that what was historically confined to a specific culture is readily available and easily transferred between countries. Culture may refer to traditions, or the culture of learning and even the culture in which organisations are run. The second trait that is commonly found in the defining of globalisation is that it enhances interdependence between nations. Flanagan, Kugler, and Frost (2011) aptly coined the hustle and bustle that is created by globalisation as the ‘process of growing international activity’ . The emphasis on the growth of a porous, unrestricted, and broad-reaching collaborative process allows us to reconcile with the fact that countries depend on each other extensively in order to progress. This, as will be presented later, comes with opportunities and challenges on its own. Thus, even when the definition of globalisation is yet to be perfected, it is clear that the term is referring to the phenomenon that encompasses the transcendence of traditional boundaries which leads to an interdependence between nations for
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Another important factor promoted globalization is called the ‘World Politics’. Foreign policymakers are facing a challenge of a fundamental change in nowadays ...