Бакалавриат 2025/2026

Международные организации

Статус: Курс обязательный (Международная программа «Международные отношения и глобальные исследования»)

Кто читает: Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики

Когда читается: 4-й курс, 1, 2 модуль

Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса

Язык: английский

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.