ASTK15433U COURSE: International Organizations and Cooperation
Bachelorlevel: 10 ECTS
Masterlevel: 7,5 ECTS
This course is about international relations and focuses mainly on the question of how international organizations are used at various levels of governance in the international system to promote international cooperation. We will discuss questions such as: Why do states design international organizations and what effects do these institutions have on international and domestic politics? Or more specific: Does the UN Security Council help to keep peace? Why did the international community set up the World Bank or the International Energy Agency? Are international organizations merely a vehicle for major powers to advance their myopic policy preferences? In this course we will analyse obstacles for cooperation in the international system and how international organizations are designed and constructed to overcome these problems.
The course will be structured according to the following headlines:
International Cooperation
Achieving Cooperation under Anarchy
International Organizations & Cooperation
Delegation and Agency in International Organizations
Domestic Politics and International Organizations
The Problem of Compliance
How to Detect Non-compliance
International Courts and Compliance
Military Alliances
Monetary Policies
Environmental Policies
International Law and Human Rights
Conclusion
The objective of this course is to enable the students to:
Summarize and present major IO theories
Review the major arguments and implication of these theories
Critically evaluate these arguments
Apply these theories to concrete cases
Define a research design
Conduct an empirical analysis.
This course enhances the students’ ability to analyse complex political science research questions from a quantitative, analytical perspective. The coruse will enable students to conduct their own research, i.e. derive interesting research questions, set up appropriate research designs, apply correct statistical models. The course is relevant for students who aim for a career in, for example, the European Union, international organizations, and the public sector.
A list of primary and secondary texts will be available at the start of the course.
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 28
- Total
- 28
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignmentWritten assignment
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- External censorship
Criteria for exam assesment
- Grade 12 is given for an outstanding performance: the student lives up to the course's goal description in an independent and convincing manner with no or few and minor shortcomings
- Grade 7 is given for a good performance: the student is confidently able to live up to the goal description, albeit with several shortcomings
- Grade 02 is given for an adequate performance: the minimum acceptable performance in which the student is only able to live up to the goal description in an insecure and incomplete manner
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- ASTK15433U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterBachelor
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedule
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- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Department of Political Science, Study Council
Contracting department
- Department of Political Science
Course responsibles
- Lars Kai Mäder (2-7a7b4e7774813c79833c7279)