intergovernmental

Examples of intergovernmental in the following topics:

• Trade Blocs and Common Markets

  • A trade bloc is a type of intergovernmental agreement, often part of a regional intergovernmental organization, where regional barriers to trade are reduced or eliminated among the participating states.

• Federal Mandates

  • An intergovernmental mandate refers to the responsibilities or activities that one level of government imposes on another by constitutional, legislative, executive, or judicial action.
  • According to the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA), an intergovernmental mandate can take various forms.

• The United Nations

  • The United Nations is the most important and influential international, intergovernmental organization.
  • The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental, international organization consisting of all 193 states in the world, whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achievement of world peace.

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  • Originally created in response to the Soviet threat, NATO is an intergovernmental mutual defense organization.
  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 4, 1949.

• World War I and the League of Nations

  • The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Talks that ended the First World War.

• Obama vs. the Lobbyists?

  • Lynn III, a lobbyist for Raytheon, to hold the position of Deputy Secretary of Defense; to Jocelyn Frye, former general counsel at the National Partnership for Women and Families, to serve as Director of Policy and Projects in the Office of the First Lady; and to Cecilia Muñoz, former senior vice president for the National Council of La Raza, to serve as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Executive Office of the President.

• Environmental Problems Associated with Fossil Fuel Use

  • Climate model projections were summarized in the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

• The European Union

  • The EU operates through a system of supranational independent institutions and intergovernmental decisions negotiated by the member states.

• Defining Corporate Governance

  • Building on the work of the OECD, other international organizations, private sector associations, and more than 20 national corporate governance codes formed the United Nations Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) to produce their Guidance on Good Practices in Corporate Governance Disclosure.

• The European Union (EU)

  • The EU operates through a system of supranational independent institutions and intergovernmental negotiated decisions by the member states.