International Organizations
Part of this Programme
European Studies and International Relations
Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS
Bachelor | Semestral | 6
Year | Type of course unit | Language
1 |Mandatory |Português
Total of Working Hours | Duration of Contact (hours)
150 | 45
Code
ULHT450-7361
Recommended complementary curricular units
n/a
Prerequisites and co-requisites
n/a
Precedences
Não
Professional Internship
Não
Syllabus
1- Introduction 1.1-Importance of the study of International Organizations. 1.2-Definition of International Organizations. 1.3-International Relations and International Organizations. 1.4-The State and International Organizations. 1.5-Proliferation of International Organizations. 2. Historical Evolution of International Relations 2.1-From Diplomacy in ancient Greece to the Italian and French system. 2.2-The Congress of Vienna (1815) and the European Concert. 2.3-The First World War and the League of Nations. 2.4 The second world conflict and the UN. 3 - General Theory of International Organizations 3.1 - General Foundations of International Organizations theory. 3.2-Characteristic activities of International Organizations. 3.3- Non-Governmental Organizations: Characterization. 3.3.1 - The different categories of Non-Governmental Organizations. 4- The United Nations Organization 4.1-The creation of the United Nations 4.2- Objectives of the Charter of the United Nations 4.3- The structure of the United Nations
Objectives
This Course Unit aims to provide the student with rigorous conceptual tools that enable him to understand the historical gestation, nature and mode of operation of international organizations, contextualizing his genesis historically so that he can understand in depth his nature, its institutional form and its purposes. In this way, the student is given a capacity for analysis of organizations in depth, by showing their historical meaning and meaning, the reasons that motivated their organizational form and their fundamental objectives. Thus, the student is prepared not only to develop capacities for effective conceptual operation, but also to understand in depth the international organizational phenomenon in order to be able to develop in any organization a competent professional exercise.
Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired
With UC in International Organizations, it is intended that the students know how to handle the conceptual tools that allow them and enable them to understand how the International Organizations operate. The student with this UC also acquires the ability to analyze organizations in depth, through the disclosure of their historical significance and fundamental objectives. Therefore, the student is enabled to develop the conceptual operationalization in order to understand in depth the international organizational phenomenon, in the sense of being able to exercise a competent professional activity.
Teaching methodologies and assessment
The classes consist of theoretical expositions, followed by lectures in class, about a) methodology of theoretical access to the historical gestation of the great international organizations; b) relationship between emerging institutional forms and historical-evolutionary process; c) the great organizations coming out of periods of intense historical crisis. What is evidenced in the teaching / learning process is the logic that governs relations between the major international organizations and the historical problems to which they always seek to respond. Therefore, the evaluation will naturally focus on the understanding and analytical control of the programmatic contents, through a test, and on a work that demonstrates the capacity of operationalization in the concrete field of analysis of the acquired conceptual instruments, with a view to a later effective professional performance. Assessment tools: 1 Assessment Test (45%) + 1 Assessment Test (45%) + Presence and Participation in Classes (10%).
References
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Frederking, B. & Diehl, P. (2015). The Politics of Global Governance: International organizations in an Interdependence World.Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
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Queiroz, C. (2013). Direito Internacional e Relações Internacionais - Organizações Internacionais. Coimbra: Coimbra: Coimbra Editora.
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