Category: International Organizations Sort by: visit | title   International Organization by Harvard University   URL: http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2000-01/syllabi/20927/govt1......   This course analyzes the potentials and limitations of international organizations in the modern global system. The major questions to be explored are four fold: 1. Why do states create international orgfanizations> More generally, why do they organize internationally? 2. What is the role of international organizations in the performance of collective tasks? 3. What is the overall impact of international organizations on world order? 4. How can we best explain the transformational consequences of international organization? These questions will be addressed through an examination of the activities of international organizations in a variety of issue areas, including conflict management, human rights world trade, economic development, and environmental protection. Both global and regional institutions will be considered.   1109 visits has been made through our site.     International Organizations by Syracuse University London Centre   URL: http://web.syr.edu/~gavan/psc353.html   This course surveys international organizations in all its variety -- from concrete institutions such as the UN, the EU, the IMF, etc., to the very informal norms and behavioral expectations from which world orders arise. The course seeks to inform students of general trends in the global political organizations while at the same time affording them the opportunity to investigate particular institutions in greater depth. To that end, each student will prepare a report of the history, operations, and purposes of an international organization. They will locate that organization within the broader network of affiliations that characterize the global organization and assess the effectiveness of this organization historically, in the contemporary environment, and for the future.   848 visits has been made through our site.     International Organization by Kent State University   URL: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rrobyn/IOSyllabus.htm   The overall objective of this course is to provide a solid grounding for both a theoretical and practical understanding of international organizations: their relationship to international law, their raison d'etre, their formation, growth, place in the contemporary world and impact on world politics. To that end, we will first examine IOs in the broad context of international relations theory, and then look more closely at several IOs in particular: the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, the International War Crimes Tribunal, the European Union, NATO, and others, although we will not necessarily limit ourselves to those organizations.   742 visits has been made through our site.     International Law and Organizations by Chapman University   URL: http://www.chapman.edu/law/registration/intntl.html   The course will begin by surveying the sources of international law, the nature of states - it's traditional and principal subjects - and explore the process by which new international norms are generated. We will devote significant attention to the United Nations, which is at the center of the modern international legal system. We will then turn to substantive areas. International law has traditionally focussed much of its attention on preventing and regulating violence between states, and indeed there are many new developments in this area since the end of the Cold War. But the course will also explore international law's new-found concern with violence within states (civil wars) and violence against individuals (human rights). We then consider two areas of law applicable to international common spaces - the law of the sea and international environmental law. In all areas we will focus both on norms and the institutions designed to give them effect. Finally, the course will explore how national legal systems take account of international law. The approach will be a comparative one, exploring how American hesitancy to give domestic effect to international law contrasts with that of other constitutional systems of more recent vintage.   718 visits has been made through our site.     International Organization by University of North Carolina at Charlotte   URL: http://www.uncc.edu/jwalsh/IO.pdf   The central, but not only, actors in international politics are states, each of which is responsible for ensuring its security and economic well-being. In other words, international politics is characterized by anarchy, the absence of a central authority such as a world government that can enforce cooperation among states. At the same time, states have created numerous formal and informal international organizations to govern some of their relations. The purpose of this course is to understand why states create international organizations and how these organizations help states avoid military and economic conflict. The course is divided into four parts. The first part briefly reviews the theoretical arguments about the roles, purposes, and powers of international organizations. The second part deals with issues of international security under the League of Nations and the United Nations. The goal here is to understand why states created organizations to govern international security, their formal and informal rules, and why their ability to prevent international conflict varies. The third part deals with international economic cooperation, analyzing the successes and failures of organizations for money, trade, and international debt. The final part focuses on transnational organizations such as multinational corporations and international human rights groups.   711 visits has been made through our site.     INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND COOPERATION by Michigan State University   URL: http://www.msu.edu/course/pls/364/stein/pls364.htm   The objective of the course is to provide a comprehensive overview of international governmental (IGO) and non-governmental organizations (NGO) and of the forces producing increased international interdependence and cooperation. Primary attention will be devoted to the role of international organizations (IO), particularly the United Nations (UN) System, in the contemporary global political system and to those aspects of international relations that are or may be conducted through institutionalized international cooperation. Students will do a brief research paper on an issue on an IO's agenda to gain knowledge about the internal and procedural workings of IOs and to gain familiarity with accessing primary sources such as documents and treaties.   605 visits has been made through our site.     International Organization by Oberlin College   URL: http://www.oberlin.edu/~politics/schiff/SYL2000web.html   This course examines both international organizations -- the institutions and bureaucracies that people use to mitigate the system's anarchy -- and international organization -- the elements and shape of the international system's structure. It explores the problem of evaluating international organizations' performance and their effects on states, the possibility that the international system is undergoing fundamental transformation, and the ideas that theorists use to explain apparent deviations from international anarchy. Politics 225 focuses primarily on three areas of international organization operations: conflict intervention and prevention, human rights, and environmental protection. An optional fourth credit expands a smaller section on global economic issues.   600 visits has been made through our site.     International Institutions by Emory University   URL: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~erein//courses/pols585J/sy......   This is an advanced graduate course on international institutions. The course continues beyond but does not assume prior knowledge of the contents of the international relations field seminar (POLS 510). It does, however, assume a willingness to tackle occasional readings with game theoretic or statistical methods. The course examines mostly formal, governmental institutions, but spends some time more generally on informal and nongovernmental institutions or regimes as well. We ask how institutions are constituted and established, and what makes them evolve and change over time; what effects they have, and how they influence state policy; why they have an impact, if at all; why some institutions are formal and/or public while others are not; how they operate, what their membership and rules are, how they structure decision-making, and what effects those different designs have; and how international institutions affect domestic politics. We begin by examining a variety of competing theoretical perspectives on these questions, and we continue by taking up institutions in specific issue-areas week by week. Our goal is to understand and critique the major approaches to studying international institutions in general, in addition to getting some sense of the empirical variety of such institutions, their forms, and effects.   584 visits has been made through our site.     INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS by University of Illinois   URL: http://www.pol.uiuc.edu/faculty/diehl/PS371.htm   This course details the essential structures, actors, and processes in international organizations. The first segment of the course provides a general overview of international organizations, both governmental and non-governmental. Topics addressed included the historical development of those organizations, the processes by which such organizations make decisions, and how they are financed. Special attention is given to the United Nations (UN) and its affiliated agencies. For comparison purposes, these are contrasted with the European Union (EU), and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). These organizations are not only among the most prominent organizations in the world today, but they represent very different purposes, structures, policies, and patterns of political interaction. When students complete the first part of the course, they should be generally familiar with the how international organization develop and operate. They should also have the analytical tools to understand the behavior of specific international organizations in various substantive issues, the focus of the second segment of the course. The second segment of the course focuses on the roles of international organizations in three key issue areas: global security, global economy, and the global social welfare. The relevant organizations, their strength vis-à-vis other actors (e.g., states), and their effectiveness vary across and within these issue areas. This part of the course will be concerned with describing the central challenges facing international organizations as well as the parameters that constrain international organizations in the performance of their duties. When student complete this segment of the course, they should have a general familiarity with the breadth and substance of contemporary international organization activity. A third segment of the course concentrates on the relationship between the United States and international organizations. This is essential given that state’s central role in the leadership and financing of key international organizations such as the UN and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This focus also serves the University mission of citizenship education by making students aware of how the concerns and decisions of the United States interact with those of leading international organizations. The final segment of the course is future-oriented and seeks to outline alternative visions for the roles of international organizations in an increasingly interdependent world. At the conclusion of the course, students should recognize the tremendous potential that international organizations have in shaping their lives in the future as well as the significant barriers that exist to such influence.   579 visits has been made through our site.     International Organization by Bowdoin College   URL: http://academic.bowdoin.edu/government/courses/s00/gov261/in......   International Organizationis designed to introduce students to the role of international organizations in the international system: why international organizations are established, the processes by which they operate, and how they attempt to realize the expectations of the states that create them. After a brief theoretical and historical introduction, the course will examine the development of the United Nations and a number of its affiliated Specialized Agencies, including the International Labor Organization (ILO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Particular attention will be paid to the way in which each organization performs such basic functions as rule-making, dispute settlement, and rule enforcement. The course will then focus on two substantive areas of organizational concern: controlling armed conflict and protecting wildlife. Students who have had any Level A Government course are eligible.   570 visits has been made through our site.     International Law and Organization by College of the Holy Cross   URL: http://sterling.holycross.edu/departments/political_science/......   Despite the emphasis customarily placed upon conflict and discord in the international system, it is clear that states in fact regularly seek to facilitate cooperation and mutual restraint. What motivates these efforts? How successful are they in overcoming the effects of international anarchy? This course will address these questions by examining the institutions through which states attempt to organize their relations with one another. Topics will include the history, functions, and relevance of international law, the role of international organizations (including but not limited to the United Nations), and contending approaches to the problems of world order and conflict management.   566 visits has been made through our site.     International Law and International Organization by North Carolina State University   URL: http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/stephen/431syl.htm   The goal of this course is to understand the origins, purposes and shortcomings of international law and international organizations. In particular, a great emphasis will be placed on peering beneath the surface of legal reasoning and of formal institutional arrangements in an effort to understand the political forces at work. Different and contrasting analytical approaches, drawn from international relations theory, will be employed to answer a variety of questions that relate to specific issues. When and how are sovereign states constrained by international law? Why do they belong to international organizations? In what ways are human rights part of international law, and what are the implications for state sovereignty? How do international law and international institutions help countries cooperate over environmental problems? By the end of the semester students will have looked for answers to these and many other, related, questions.   563 visits has been made through our site.     International Organizations by Lee University   URL: http://www.leeu.edu/~rediger/syllabus_for_io.html   A. General Instructional Objectives This course seeks to: 1. Encourage understanding of how international organizations functions as well as help the student to gain an appreciation of the interaction between various national and international bodies. 2. Assist the student in obtaining a more global perspective of world events. 3. Acquaint the student with various competing political ideologies and positions in order to allow him/her to evaluate political positions and opinions applying a Christian perspective. 4. Develop an awareness of the problems which exist with regard to international interaction and to help the student gain an understanding of the different ways to solve these problems. 5. Foster an awareness of the location of the different states in the world. B. Specific Behavioral Objectives As a result of the activities and study in this course, the student should be able to do the following: 1. Delineate the different ideologies and theories behind the study of international organizations. 2. Describe the forces that motivate international actors in the formation of policies that have national and international effect. 3. Explain the problems and challenges that are unique to international organizations and offer possible solutions to these. 4. Articulate both sides of an issue and then be able to support his/her own opinion with facts. 5. Describe the various types of international organizations, institutions, and structures associated with international organizations and show how they interact in meeting the challenges of the international community. 6. Locate all of the countries of the world on a map.   560 visits has been made through our site.     International Organizations by McGill University   URL: http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/polisci/courses/course98/......   The purposes of this course are, first, to introduce students to the history, structure, and functions of the major international and global organizations that have been created since the Congress of Vienna. Second, to understand the general principles of cooperative interaction among the various actors in the global political system, including collective security, peacekeeping, and global governance through the institutions of the Bretton Woods system. Particular--though not exclusive--emphasis is placed on the United Nations and its affiliated organizations   559 visits has been made through our site.     Global Governance and International Organization by Boston University   URL: http://web.bu.edu/anajam/ir595.html   This course examines the role of international organizations in the contemporary global political system. It does so with particular focus on trends of rapid globalization and efforts to set up efficient and effective regimes for so-called "global governance". Primary attention is devoted to 'global' (as opposed to regional) institutions, in particular of the United Nations system. However, the relationship of these organizations to other actors in the international system is also explored at some length. This will include separate discussions on, and an integrated treatment of, non-state actors such as multinational corporations and non-governmental organizations   551 visits has been made through our site.     International Organizations by Roanoke College   URL: http://www2.roanoke.edu/publicaf/Warshawsky/1999SprPoli232Sy......   To examine the evolution, role, and importance of international organizations within the general international system. Special emphasis will be given to the nature, goals, experiences, and performance of the United Nations. A model Security Council simulation exercise will be incorporated to allow better understanding of international diplomacy and non-American perspectives of international politics. Enhancement of critical thinking, research, computer learning and written and oral communication skills will be emphasized.   546 visits has been made through our site.     Information Sources of International Organizations by University of South Carolina   URL: http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/CLis736syll.htm   An introduction to the information resources of the United Nations, European Communities, UNESCO, FAO, IBRD, and other international inter-governmental organizations. Emphasis will be on the acquisition, organization, and reference use of the information sources in all kinds of libraries and information systems.   543 visits has been made through our site.     International Organization by Davidson College   URL: http://www.davidson.edu/academic/political/syl347.html   International Organization is an upper-level course devoted to the analysis of contemporary international organizations and to the international transactions, issues, and crises they are intended to manage. It is structured around some of the most significant issues confronting the international community, and includes a short review of important concepts and theories of relevance to international organization. The broad question which serves as the foundation of the course is this: how does a world organized politically around sovereign states cope with transactions and threats which are increasingly trans-national in nature? We will be taking a close look at how effectively the international community has devised organizations, rules and regulations, and practices to manage the complexity of issues such as global finance, the internet, health threats, collective security, transnational crime and terrorism, and economic development. In some cases, the structures and procedures we have in place are reasonably well-suited to manage transnational problems; in other cases, as you will see, structures of global governance are poorly adapted to the rapid changes of transnational politics and exchange.   541 visits has been made through our site.     INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS by University of Puget Sound   URL: http://www.ups.edu/faculty/dbalaam/syllabus/332fall00.htm   . The objectives of this course pertain to how academics and policy officials have thought about IOs in the past and how they think of them today, the jobs IOs perform, their effectiveness, and some ideas about their role in the future. Thus, the first objective of this course is to acquaint students with a variety of theories and concepts about IOs in general. Second, the role of IOs in the international system is a controversial subject. Some experts believe that many of them have already and will continue to play a greater role in the world as the limits of state authority come to be realized. Still another objective is to address a question often asked and that is the extent to which IOs have replaced the nation-state as the major actor in the international system   540 visits has been made through our site.     INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS by CHATHAM COLLEGE   URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~petrescu/io/   This course examines the role of international organizations (IOs) in world politics. IOs come in various types, and their number is very vast. The course will focus primarily on public governmental organizations, even though we will look in lesser detail at non-governmental and private organizations too. The core goals of this course are to build an understanding of the underlying reasons for the setting up and continued existence and proliferation of IOs, and to introduce the students to the functioning and practice of some major IOs. Public governmental IOs consist of member states willingly subscribing to the organization's principles and/or norms, and thus adhering to the international regime the organization represents, or even agreeing to participate in certain forms of supra-national governance. Based on this assumption that it will build upon, the course tries to demonstrate why and how the world can not be imagined today without the work of IOs, and how do national foreign policies of members or non-members alike affect and are affected by IOs. Throughout the course, we will ask ourselves what has been the need that one IO or the other's existence responds to, such as avoiding or resolving military conflict, dealing with political change or world economic instability etc. Further, we will look at how does each IO address that need, what are its declared goals, and how well does it manage to address them. We will look at the past and current functioning of IOs both through a practitioner's eyes and by constantly seeking the theoretical perspectives at work in each case. In doing so, we will use both theory and practice to attempt at forecasting future developments within each IO we study, and at times within the interaction between them.   539 visits has been made through our site.     International Organizations by The University of Arizona   URL: http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/dixonw/361/361syl.phtml   Students successfully achieving the objectives of this course should be able to: delineate the historical antecedents and trends in the growth of international organizations; identify the various types of international organizations and discuss the important characteristics of each; discuss the various theories and concepts used to study international organizations; describe the structure and activities of the principal organs and specialized agencies of the United Nations; develop a more specialized knowledge about a particular international institution or global problem area; evaluate the past performance and future prospects of international organizations in the global community.   538 visits has been made through our site.     International Organization by Marquette University   URL: http://www.marquette.edu/polisci/167LeBlanc.htm   In broad terms, the main objective of this course is to introduce students to the process of international organization. To accomplish this objective, throughout the course of the semester we will cover a variety of important theoretical as well as substantive topics, including approaches to the study of international organizations, the historical development of international organizations, and their roles, functions, and powers. Although we will concentrate mainly on international governmental organizations, students may deal with nongovernmental organizations in their term papers (discussed more fully below) if they wish.   521 visits has been made through our site.     INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS by FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY   URL: http://www.uncfsu.edu/w4/fac/adowdle/POLI431.htm   International Organizations is a study of the basic concepts, historical backgrounds, evolution, and functioning of international governmental and administrative systems with primary emphasis on the United Nations. As such, international organization is the study of cooperation and governance in world politics. Sometimes international cooperation or governance occurs within a formal international organization such as the United Nations, but the scope of international organization as a field of study extends well beyond the boundaries of such formal international agencies. It also includes a broader concern with the way in which human societies interact with one another, and how they structure this interaction. This course examines both the theory and the practice of international cooperation and governance. It starts by exploring various theories of international organization which should help us to gain a better understanding of the contemporary world, and which provide a theoretical framework for the remainder of the course. We then turn to a number of practical issues and controversies that continue to preoccupy students of international organization, including mechanisms to control violent conflict, the management of the global economy, the rising influence of international non-governmental organizations, the dynamics and meaning of European integration, and the relationship between the principles of democracy and the practice of international organization. In the end, the course provides students with an opportunity not only to deepen their knowledge of the structure and workings of major international organizations in the world today, but also to explore the larger problem of how to enhance international cooperation and governance in a politically decentralized world.   516 visits has been made through our site.     INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ORGANIZATION by UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EAU CLAIRE   URL: http://www.uwec.edu/Academic/Curric/abootaar/SYLLABUS331.htm......   The primary goal of this course is to introduce students to the complex web of the interaction between international law and the ever-growing and prominent international organizations and international politics. In doing so, we will first study, discuss, and analyze the fundamentals of international law in order to examine its position within the broader scheme of international politics. We will subsequently turn our attention to the role of international organizations to examine how they impact the conduct of international relations among States, Corporations, Inter-governmental and Non-governmental Organizations, as well as ordinary citizens. A close attention will be paid to those international organizations (e.g., U.N., EU, ASEAN, NATO) and issues (e.g., trade, human rights, and the environment) that can play a central role in the conduct of international politics and international organization.   514 visits has been made through our site.     International Organization by Indiana University Southeast   URL: http://homepages.ius.edu/AK/CSTATEN/web_docs/00y374.htm   This class will serve as an introduction to the study of international organization by focusing on the United Nations. There are no prerequisites for the class but Y109 (Introduction to International Relations) is helpful. It is imperative that you keep up with the reading and writing assignments and prepare diligently for each class. It is in your best interests to read a newspaper that has good coverage of international events such as the Christian Science Monitor or the New York Times (both are at the library). In the absence of these the Courier Journal will suffice. I expect constructive and knowledgeable participation by all students each class period.   512 visits has been made through our site.     International Organizations by University of South California   URL: http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/ir/classweb/#   The emergence of international organizations as a permanent feature in world politics; role of the United Nations organization as well as regional international organizations.   508 visits has been made through our site.     International Organizations by Bradley University   URL: http://www.bradley.edu/las/pls/318www/syllabus.htm   This course explores the institutional structures, political processes, and impact of international organizations within the larger context of world politics. International organizations, both governmental and nongovernmental, play an increasingly prominent role in efforts to resolve a wide range of global problems. While the course will cover the traditional problems---international security, the global distribution of wealth, and threats to social welfare---particular attention will be given to international environmental problems. Because of its scope and importance in these areas, the activities and influence of the United Nations System is given special emphasis in the course.   505 visits has been made through our site.     International Organizations by University of Missouri - Columbia   URL: http://web.missouri.edu/~polsjjh/Courses/Ps385/syllabus.html   This course investigates the development, functions, and behavior of international organizations. The primary focus of the course is on the United Nations and its affiliated organizations. You should note, however, that the focus on the UN will often lead to an examination of other international organizations (e.g. NATO, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Monetary Fund, and other regional organizations).   502 visits has been made through our site.     INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION by University of Oregon   URL: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~polisci/syllabi/PS4-520W01.htm   The world today is plagued by a large number of transnational problems that appear to require concerted, collective action: violent conflict, widespread human rights abuses, environmental degradation, and persistent poverty and underdevelopment, to name but a few. Yet we live in an anarchic world of independent, sovereign states, a world in which there is no overarching government capable of providing authoritative solutions to these problems. Can international organizations such as the United Nations contribute to the solution of common problems? If so, why have they done such a poor job thus far? In this course, we will explore contemporary efforts to “organize” the unruly sovereign state system. We will examine the evolution of multilateral peacekeeping operations, international efforts to promote human rights, and the politics of global economic welfare. Due to time constraints, we will concentrate primarily upon international organizations of global scope, such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. We will conclude with a critical assessment of current proposals for the “reform” of the contemporary system of international organization.   500 visits has been made through our site.     International Organizations and Environmental Politics by Florida International University   URL: http://www.fiu.edu/~hadjilam/evr5350/   Environmental problems increasingly transcend national boundaries. As a result, nations find it increasingly hard to address them effectively through the enactment of national policies. For this reason, international venues need to be found in which to pursue effective environmental policy-making. This course explores the various types of such venues: intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental international organizations, etc. The structure of these organizations, the actors that operate within them, the interests that these actors represent, and the constraints imposed, on the one hand by the natural environment, and on the other hand by claims of sovereignty of the nation-states, are all factors that determine the outcomes of international environmental politics. However, this system is not a static one. The pressures caused by environmental problems continually push for increased organization of the international system. The critical question addressed by the course is what organizational forms will allow humanity to deal most effectively with its environmental problems.   496 visits has been made through our site.     © 2000 The Chinese University of Hong Kong