Aim: to what extent have Supranationalistic organizations had an impact on the world?

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Aim: to what extent have Supranationalistic organizations had an impact on the world?. Identify and Define. Unitary States. However… United Kingdom. Federations. UAE?. Canada!?. Sudan and Venezuela ; yeah right!. Confederations. Canada. EU formerly the EEC etc. Switzerland … I guess. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Aim: to what extent have Supranationalistic

organizations had an impact on the world?

Identify and Define

However… United Kingdom

Unitary States

Federations

Canada!?Sudan and

Venezuela ; yeah right!

UAE?

Confederations

Canada

Switzerland… I guess.

UAE?

EU formerly

the EEC etc.

Supranationlism

EU

i.e.:

European Union

Candidate countries

Why are these “non-

European” parts of

the world technically members of the EU?

The Warsaw

Pact military alliance

collapsed after the fall of the

USSR.

BTW, you can tell who runs countries located along the Sahel? Pan-Arabism hasn’t really succeeded.

BTWPromoted by Nasser of Egypt. Didn’t last long.

Complete Anarchy

Somalia

Various Frontiers

NAFTA

North American Free Trade Agreement

Originally thought to compete with the

supranationalism of the EU but quickly devolved into a so

so quasi economic association once American politicians realized they’d

have to raise taxes in the USA to pay for improvements in

Mexico.

OPEC

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

More of an economic association / cartel than a

Supranationalist organization.

OAU Organization of African

UnityDivision between

North Africa (Arabs) and Sub-Saharan

Africa (Black Africans) has proven to be the

main stumbling block.

Kwame Nkrumah’s dream of a Pan-African “United

States of Africa” aint going to happen.

FIN