Global Public Goods

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In the face of turbulent refugees, European Union has been struggling with the humanitarian and the interests of the state. EU has carried out a series of cooperative measures to accommodate a large number of refugees and to prevent the arrival of more refugees and even terrorists in disguise. The globalization increases the degree of interdependence and demand for more countries’ involvement into the supply of global public goods. Why the supply of public goods has not been achieved and the collective security could not bee guaranteed?
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Public goods
In the process of globalization, countries around the world demand more global public goods while there exists many problems in the global public goods supply. Kaul and Grunberg (1999) …show more content…

In addition, they summarize various supply problems of global public goods into two aspects: the scant supply of global public goods and underutilization of global public goods. Conceicao (2003) strikes off a description of his standpoint after analyzing the supply of major global public goods. He argues that there is always scant …show more content…

In practice, mechanism of collective security draws support from a regional of global organization, which leads to the presence of both the general collective security in the world and the regional collective security (Abass, 2004). Undoubtedly, there are both advantages and limits in the mechanism of regional collective security, such as that of EU (Gleason and Shaihutdinov, 2005). The limits of regional collective security find expression in Europe’s refugee crisis. A few of the academics argue that a supranational organization can help the valid operation of the collective security (Ravenal, 1975). In the collective security action, the interest of the big country is crucial while the national interests should be consistent with the collective interests. Consequently, the collective interest becomes the bond between the two (Hyde-Pride, 2004). But the role of big countries is almost decisive. They can take action outside EU’s framework. In other words, they can choose to rely on the European Union to seek their goals of foreign policy or they can take part in the action of other multilateral system in order to pursue their own national interest, which generates the inherent limitations of EU’s regional collective security as

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