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These notes cover the majority of the entire "International Organizations" course taught by Ruth Ediger at Seattle Pacific University. They represent over 30 hours of reading, research and writing summaries of assigned readings, mostly from the course textbook, International Organizations 3rd ed. by Karns, Mingst and Stiles.

These notes cover the historical background of the French Revolution, giving context for the literary works of the time and the birth of the Enlightenment movement/period. There's a little cursing in it, I use my own thoughts in my notes when I'm trying to keep up during a lecture.

These notes cover the entire English Literature Romanticism course. There's a little bit of cursing at the end, I spent 8 hours compiling this and transcribing it onto 2 notecards so I was grumpy. These notes are comprehensive and in simple language.

These notes are my answers to prompts for a certain Romantic Literature final exam that has already passed. Contained herein is a comparison of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" and John Keats's "Lamia", thoughts about David Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" and how it relates to the English monarchy's abuse of authority, and observations about how David Blake's "A Song of Liberty" relates to Wordsworth and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads".

This is a condensed overview of regional organizations and their purpose, as well as the European Union and the seven supranational institutions that govern the European Union.

These brief notes are on Transnational Issues, the Peace Treaties of Westphalia, the birth of the nation-state, human rights versus humanitarian aid, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

These notes summarize chapter 10 of "International Organizations" (3rd edition), by Karns, Mingst and Stiles. To summarize the chapter in my own words, The powers of the world have a responsibility to help those who can’t help themselves, and to protect people from those who would abuse their basic human rights. States and powers should not be immune to, or out of reach of, the just scrutiny and reprisal of the rest of the world, should those entities infringe upon the rights that every huma...

Chapter three mainly covers the evolution of governance, the organizations that emerged to meet human rights needs, and the changes and renewals those organizations went through as needed. The chapter begins by covering the contemporary state system and the key principles of that system outlined in the Treaty of Westphalia (Karns, Mingst & Stiles, 75).

Karns, Mingst and Stiles first lay out the various types and functions of benevolent and harmful non-state actors including; NGOs, Transnational Networks and Coalitions, Experts/ Epistemic Communities, Multinational Corporations, Social Movements, Foundations, Global Think Tanks, Terrorist organizations, Organized Criminal Organizations and Trafficking Groups/Networks. They then discuss historical global needs that led to the increased number and influence of NSAs. Following that, Karns, Mingst ...

These notes contain a summary of chapter 9 from "International Organizations" (3rd edition), by Karns, Mingst and Stiles. That chapter covered economic growth and economic globalization, as well as how these goals must be tempered by observing human rights.