What role do you believe Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) should play in international relations ? Is there a difference between how advanced of...

As a matter
of personal opinion, I think intergovernmental organizations can be more effective than
governments themselves at international policy. The major benefit is that these organizations
can be formed to focus on specific tasks and duties, and they can work in conjunction with one
another to accomplish their goals.

Organizations like the United Nations and
World Health Organization are well equipped to take care of foreign affairs if they remove
themselves from bureaucracy and governmental red tape. With certain tasks that are transcendent
and more important than simple foreign relations, these organizations can supersede governments
and inspire actionessentially forcing solutions to occur.

One example of this
is climate change. An intergovernmental organization dedicated to fixing climate change would be
able to unilaterally make decisions in the best interests of the planet and override individual
government's opinions and limitations.

The main issue is that, unfortunately,
they are intrinsically tied to governments and sovereign nations. Because of this, it is hard to
overcome the red tape and take decisive measures. If these organizations were able to act
independently of government bodieslike multinational companiesthey would be able to affect more
lasting and powerful change. As it stands, they are certainly limited, but they could take more
action.