Бакалавриат
2025/2026
Международные организации
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Международная программа «Международные отношения и глобальные исследования»)
Кто читает:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Где читается:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается:
4-й курс, 1, 2 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Харитонова Елена Марковна
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Course Syllabus
Abstract
International organizations (IOs) have been a major focus of academic research and controversy in various subfields of Political Science and International Relations for already several decades. This course provides an analysis of the theory and practice of IOs and their role in global governance. It starts with a brief history of IOs and continues with a presentation of various theoretical perspectives that can be applied to their study. Through the lenses of different theoretical approaches, this part of the course discusses roles and functions of IOs (both intergovernmental and nongovernmental ones), resources that they have at their disposal, as well as issues of their actorness and legitimacy in the conditions of increasing regime complexity in international politics. The course proceeds with a review of activities that IOs undertake in specific issue areas and contemporary sites of global governance: peace and security, finance and development, migration, health. This is done through case studies of bodies such as the UN with its various agencies, the IMF, the World Bank, the IOM, the WHO, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and other referent and non-referent IOs. Specific attention is paid to their interactions with other international and local actors, including regional organizations and private agencies.
Learning Objectives
- 1. Provide a broad overview of the history, roles, current state and existing types of international organizations;
- 2. Apply different theoretical approaches to the study of international organizations and compare them;
- 3. Identify the key international organizations in various issue areas of international cooperation, examine their organizational structure and roles;
- 4. Analyze cases of international organizations involvement and interventions in different areas, identify major benefits of cooperation, issues and challenges;
- 5. Assess the influence of new and emerging global challenges and power shifts on the work of international organizations as well as the ways international organizations address these changes;
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate thoroughly understanding the core literature on EC and EU and engage with this literature critically by developing argumentation
- demonstrate thoroughly understanding the core literature on EU and engage with this literature critically by developing argumentation
- Demonstrate thoroughly understanding the core literature on GATT and WTO and engage with this literature critically by developing argumentation
- Explain the main theoretical approaches and empirical issues in the study of GATT and WTO
- Explain the main theoretical approaches and empirical issues in the study of the United Nations
- Explain the main theoretical approaches and empirical issues in the study of theories of international organizations
- Write clearly, effectively and critically about the issues
Course Contents
- Week 1. Lecture 1. Introduction to international organizations
- Seminar 1. History of International Organizations. League of Nations: analyzing a historic document (end of 1920s).
- Seminar 2. Individual international organizations and their roles: building knowledge base
- Week 2. Lecture 2. Overview of existing international organizations and their roles
- Week 3. Lecture 3. States and international organizations. Theoretical approaches and practice
- Seminar 3. Applying different theoretical lenses to the international organizations, based on the selected cases
- Week 4. Lecture 4. United Nations System
- Seminar 4. The Charter of the United Nations. Sustainable Development Goals and the Agenda 2030.
- Week 5. Lecture 5. United Nations System: broader context
- Seminar 5. Game theory and international organizations
- Week 6. Lecture 6. International organizations and collective security
- Seminar 6: Armed conflicts and the role of international organizations: issues and challenges
- Week 7. Lecture 7. International organizations: global and regional economy, finance and trade
- Seminar 7. International economic cooperation under pressure: current trends
- Week 8. Lecture 8. Humanitarian aid and human rights
- Seminar 8. Efficiency of international organizations: discussing case studies
- Week 9. Lecture 9. Development and sustainability
- Seminar 9. Data analysis: development trends and the role of international organizations
- Week 10. Lecture 10. The future of international organizations in the transforming global context
- Seminar 10. Russia and international organizations: strategy, ideas, ways forward.
Assessment Elements
- Active participation in the seminars
- Case studies and final paper
- In-class quizzes
- Final exam
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 2nd module0.25 * Active participation in the seminars + 0.2 * Case studies and final paper + 0.4 * Final exam + 0.15 * In-class quizzes
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Goldstein, J. L., Rivers, D., & Tomz, M. (2007). Institutions in International Relations: Understanding the Effects of the GATT and the WTO on World Trade. International Organization, 1, 37.
- The Oxford Handbook of international organizations / edited by Jacob Katz Cogan, Ian Hurd, Ian Johnstone. (2016). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.473862530
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Зуев В.Н. - Глобальные институты регулирования - 978-5-9776-0423-9 - Магистр - 2023 - https://znanium.ru/catalog/product/2001624 - 2001624 - ZNANIUM