International organizations 4003-201OM
Starting from theoretical framework (firs four), the lecture then is going to detect their ever-growing dyuynamics (next two), and thereafter is analysing the most important organizations, starting from Europe, and finishing in Asia and in a new international order which seems to emerge right now (after 2008) on global scene. Particualr division is following one:
1. Participants or subjects of international arena.
2. Set-up and classification of organizations
3. Functions and organs of international organizations
4. Decision-making process in international organizations
5. International organizations versus international order
6. Dynamics of international organizations
7/8. UN and the UN System
9/10. European Union
11/12. Council of Europe
13/14 OSCE
15/16. NATO
17. OECD
18. G-7 into G-20
19/20. Bretton Woods System
21. NAFTA
22. MERCOSUR
23. African Union
24. Arab League (OPEC)
25/16. International organizations in Asia (ASEAN, APEC, TPP 2.0, RCEP, AIIB)
27/28. The most importnat (global) NGO's
29/30. New global order (BRICS, G-20, Chinese BRI).
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
Konwledge:
- To understand the growing role of international organizations on international arena.
- Ability to reckognize, which organization is functional and which disfunctional - and why.
- Starting from reality and facts, ability to define the creteria of action of any organization, its system of values, etc.
Competences:
- Ability to recjkongnize the organization (governmental or NGO), its strcuture, institutional framework, aims and purposes.
- Analysis of what is god or bad in functioniung of the organization (institiutional, organizational and value factors, impact of any other subject on arena).
- Reckognition of the organiztation, its qulity and worth both from the point of view of nationa state and cooperating subjects.
- Ability to quickly react on any new initiative.
Posture and attitude:
- Independence in selection of oragnizations, as well as active approach towards its functioning.
- Consciousness of contemporary multiple world where beoyng the nation state there is more and more non-state players.
- Ability to have an impact on the world around us.
Assessment criteria
Lecture. Written exam. Main criteria: attendence on the lecture (not obligatory particpation but obligatory knowledge from it).
Bibliography
- "Organizacje w stosunkach międzynarodowych. Istota, mechanizmy działania, zasięg", Red. T. Łos-Nowak, Wrocław 2004.
- B. Kuźnia, M. Marlinko, "Organizacje międzynarodowe", Skypty Becka, Warszawa 2008.
- E. Latoszek, M. Proczek, "Organizacje międzyanrodowe. Założenia, cle, działalność. Podręcznik akadmeicki", Elipsa, WQarszawa 2011 (i nast. wydania).
- "Globalizacja polityki światowej. Wporowadzxenie do stosunków międzyanrodowycxh", Red. J. Baylis, S. Smith, WUJ, Kraków 2008.
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