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International Institutions
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:11.00
Study Course Accepted:08.03.2024 15:09:23
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PZK_061 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 3.00 | ECTS: | 4.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Politics; International Politics | Target Audience: | Political Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Beāte Livdanska | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 7 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 14 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 7 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 14 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 28 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basic knowledge of international processes, acquired in the first three semesters of the bachelor's study programme. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide basic knowledge on the role of International Institutions in global politics, their structure and principals of functioning in the areas of international security, economy, promotion of social welfare, human rights protection and sustainable development. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction to the course. Historical evolution of International Institutions – from the League of Nations to the UN. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 2 | Classification and types of international institutions. The role of international institutions in global politics. Decision-making, results and mechanisms. Types of actors and their representation in international organisations. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 3 | The United Nations – institutional capacity and challenges: General Assembly, ECOSOC and the Security Council. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | The role of international insitutions in economic and sustainable development. Bretonwoods organisations. Super-powers in global governance. The divide between the North and South. OECD. | Lectures | 2.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 5 | Regional international organisations and the specifics of their operations. Activities of non-state actors in international organizations. | Lectures | 2.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 6 | International organisations and the international security and peacekeeping. Issues of disarmament in the operation of the UN and international arms control regimes. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | International organisations and the international security and peacekeeping. Issues of disarmament in the operation of the UN and international arms control regimes: pētījuma prezentācija | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Environmental and Human Rights Policy in International Organisations. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | The work of International Institutions - an overview. Test | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Simulation | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Students individual work includes: • reading of literature specified for every lecture and seminar; • preparation for every seminar; • attendance; • preparation for completion of 1 knowledge test; • 2 essays; • group project/research (report) paper and its presentation in a seminar. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Students work will be evaluated on a scale of 10 during the whole course, following the given criteria: • the attendance of lectures and seminars (the quality of answers incl.) – 30%; • test – 10%; • 2 essays – 20%; • group project/report (presentation incl.) – 20%; • Exam – 20%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students acquire the following knowledge in this course: • basic knowledge of the principals, forms and problems of international institutions work; • understanding of the different theoretical approaches to the study of international institutions; • ability to describe and analyse the work of international institutions in specific cases; • understanding of the principals on the classification of international institutions in accordance to their structure, functioning principals and areas of work. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Skills students are expected to acquire in this course: • the ability to decipher different approaches to the study of international institutions; • analytical skills in studying the work, obligations and weak spots of international institutions; • to present the results of student individual work. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Overall competences students acquire: • the ability to pose arguments and to discuss logically the role of international institutions in global politics and the challenges that they face; • be able to apply students academic knowledge in the evaluations of the work of specific international institutions; • to use overall principles of institutional functioning in the analysis of specific organizations; • to produce essays and individual paper as a body of analytical work. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Margaret P. Karns, Karen A. Mingst. International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance. Boulder, London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010 | ||||||||
| 2 | Ian Hurd. International organization: Politics, Law, Practise. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011 | ||||||||
| 3 | Archer, Clive. International Organisations. 3rd edition. Taylor and Francis Group, 2014 | ||||||||
| 4 | Mingst, Karen A., and Karns, Margaret P. The United Nations in the 21st Century. 4th edition. Westview Press, 2011 | ||||||||
| 5 | Mingst, Karen A., and Arreguin-Toft, Ivan M. Essentials of International Relations. 7th edition. W.W. Norton & Company, 2017 | ||||||||
| 6 | Carlsnaes Walter, Risse Thomas, et.al. The Handbook of International Relations. 2nd edition. Sage Publications, 2013 | ||||||||
| 7 | Hurd, Ian and Hogan C. Jacob. The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations. Oxford University Press, 2018 | ||||||||
| 8 | Pal, Leslie A., Tok, Evren M. Global Governance and Muslim Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 | ||||||||
| 9 | African Foreign Policies in International Institutions. Ed.by Warner, J., Shaw, Timothy W. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 | ||||||||
| 10 | The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook. Volume 43: 2018. New York, 2019 | ||||||||
| 11 | Fiti Sinclair, Guy. To Reform the World: International Organizations and the Making of Modern States. Oxford University Press, 2017 | ||||||||
| 12 | Bruckmeier, Karl. Global Environmental Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 | ||||||||
| 13 | Oberleitner, Gerd. International Human Rights: Institutions, Tribunals and Courts. Springer, 2018 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | http://www.un.org | ||||||||
| 2 | http://www.globalpolicy.org | ||||||||
| 3 | http://www.iaea.org | ||||||||
| 4 | http://www.icj-cij.org | ||||||||
| 5 | http://www.amnesty.org | ||||||||
