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Sovereignty and Globalization

Sovereignty and Globalization. Introduction - Scenario. Imagine you are married with 2 children and you own your own home in Mississauga You and your partner believe it is okay to spank your child on his/her bottom as a form of discipline.

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Sovereignty and Globalization

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  1. Sovereignty and Globalization

  2. Introduction - Scenario Imagine you are married with 2 children and you own your own home in Mississauga You and your partner believe it is okay to spank your child on his/her bottom as a form of discipline. Your child’s school finds out one day, contacts the police, and you are arrested for committing a crime. Is this a just situation? Should an outside force be allowed to enter your home and tell you how you may or may not discipline your child? Should you have control over your own affairs in your home?

  3. Scenario #2 Imagine you are married with 2 children and you own your own home in Mississauga You and your partner believe it is okay to spank your child by beating, starving, and locking your child in a cage as a form of discipline. Your child’s school finds out one day, contacts the police, and you are arrested for committing a crime. Is this a just situation? Should an outside force be allowed to enter your home and tell you how you may or may not discipline your child? Should you have control over your own affairs in your home?

  4. Historical understandings • There is no concept more important to our understanding of international law than sovereignty. • Origins of the term lies within the notion of a sovereign ruler – a queen or a king – exercising power over her/his subjects.

  5. Internal and external sovereignty • Internal sovereignty – includes the right to make laws, engage in relationships with foreign states without interference from the international community • External sovereignty – in theory, independent states are free to either enter or not enter into relationships with other states. • Ex: trade agreements on shared responsibilities over land/water

  6. Globalization • Since WWII, there has been a shift in the belief that a nation should have complete domestic sovereignty • Due to the force of globalization (borderless world), our interdependence on other nations has drastically increased. • Need for global cooperation can be seen in many areas: environmentally, nuclear weapons, war, etc.

  7. Discussion • With the advent of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948): • Are these universally declared human rights so important that one nation has the right to interfere in the internal affairs of another nation? • Do some countries’ rights carry more weight in the international community? Should they?

  8. Canada’s Seal Hunt • One of the most controversial practices in Canada, the annual seal hunt occurs off the coast of Atlantic Canada.

  9. This controversy has pitted the government against animal rights activists • Hunt or slaughter? Sea mammals or baby seals? Cherished tradition or economic disaster?

  10. How does the seal hunt benefit Canada? • The economic value of the seal hunt is another one of those things that is open to interpretation. The federal government says the landed value of seals exceeded $16.5 million in 2005, providing a "significant" source of income for thousands of sealers — benefiting them and their families at a time when, according to the DFO, "other fishing options are unavailable, or limited at best, in many remote, coastal communities."

  11. Anti-sealing groups describes the contribution of sealing to Newfoundland's GDP as "trivial" and says after costs and indirect subsidies are taken into account (patrolling the hunt, upgrading plants, promoting the hunt, developing new markets for seal products and supporting research to find new products), Canadians would "likely find that the hunt actually costs the Canadian taxpayer money." • It's a pointless activity, in the view of the IFAW, which says, "the only economically valuable part of the seal is its fur, a non-essential luxury product that no one really needs."

  12. Sarah McLachlan asks Stephen Harper to end seal hunt • Read the Toronto Star article Questions: • In chart form, list both sides of the argument for whether or not the international community should exert pressure on Canada to change its seal hunt practices • Canada maintains that sanctions against the seal industry would destroy coastal Canadians who depend on sealing for their livelihoods. Should the need to protect rural communities supersede the concerns of conservationists? Explain • Explain the conflict between the principles of sovereignty and globalization.

  13. The Cove • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KRD8e20fBo

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