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En provenance du cours de National Research University Higher School of Economics

Understanding International Relations Theory

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National Research University Higher School of Economics

Understanding International Relations Theory

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The course aims to introduce the key assumptions of the international relations theory as a part of social science and as an analytic tool, focusing on the problems of war and peace, foreign policy decision-making, etc. The course combines historic approach and analysis of the modern political problems. The historic part shows the evolution of the international relations theory from being a part of political philosophy to its emergence as a special branch of political science, which is essential to understand the key ideas of the IR science. The lectures also include broad outline of the modern concepts and debates in the context of the contemporary political problems, such as rise of China and other emerging powers, threat of terrorism, US-Russia confrontation, etc. The lectures of the two outstanding Russian scholars and political analysts – Timofey Bordachev and Dmitry Suslov - cover such fields as the problems of international security and conflict resolution, international economic relations, foreign policy decision-making, global governance, the role of power in the IR.

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Actors in international relations

The module focuses on the one of the key theoretical problems in the IR science: who is actor of international politics? While some theories assumes that only states have enough capabilities ti be considered as actors if IR, some concepts assume that even an individual can play an important role. The module introduces the students to these important debates.

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Intergovernmental organizations 26:24

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Timofei Bordachev
Associate professor
Department of international relations
Dmitrii Suslov
Senior Lecturer
Department of international relations, HSE

Finally, let's talk about classification of

international organizations and the intergovernmental organizations,

how to classify them,

how to distribute them.

In general, there are two major ways to classify,

two major approaches to classification.

International organizations are distributed according to their mandate,

and according to their membership.

According to their mandate,

international institutions are divided into two groups.

Universal international organizations are those organizations that

exercise their authorities in multiple areas of policy: In management of economic issues,

trade issues, cultural issues, financial issues,

I don't know security issues,

and/or everything is united into one single organization.

And the examples of this universal organizations that do many,

many areas of policy are United Nations,

European Union, African Union, and so on.

The second group according to mandate criteria are specific organizations.

These are organizations responsible for only one certain area of life,

only one certain field of policy.

Either security or trade and that's it, nothing else.

And the examples of such specific institutions or specified institutions are NAFTA,

North American Free Trade Association,

managing just trade between the US Canada and Mexico.

NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization,

managing collective defense security of North Atlantic, and that's it.

WTO, World Trade Organization, managing trade.

International Monetary Fund, managing finance.

World Health Organization, managing healthy issues in the world,

and not trade, not security, and so on.

The second criteria is membership.

And according to membership,

international organizations are divided into open or global organizations.

Those organizations to which any country in the world can join,

any sovereign country in the world.

And the examples are the United Nations, WTO,

International Civil Aviation Organization, and others.

And the second group is closed or regional organizations.

Organizations that are specific,

that are open only to certain countries of geography.

Well, usually these are regional organizations open

for membership for countries only in a specific geographical region.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization is

open just for European countries and North American countries.

Japan can't join NATO.

MERCASUR is the common market in South America.

South Africa cannot join MERCASUR.

ASEAN is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations,

and the United States of America or

Russia can have relations with ASEAN but they cannot join ASEAN.

Eurasian Economic Union is a regional organization of the post Soviet space.

China can have treaty relations with Eurasian Economic Union,

but it cannot join Eurasian Economic Union, and so on.

Thus, from these two ways of classification,

we can make a conclusion.

That in general, there are four types of

intergovernmental organizations existing in the world, four types of them.

First is universal universal organizations,

and there is only one organization like that,

it is the United Nations organization.

Secondly, regional universal organizations.

Regional organizations that have authority to govern,

to manage different various aspects of policy.

Organizations like European Union and African Union.

Third, global specific organizations,

global institutions to which anyone can join,

but managing just specific areas of policy.

WTO, IMF, World Bank,

ICAO are the examples.

And finally, regional specific institutions.

Regional organizations to which only some countries of particular regions can join,

and organizations managing some very specific exceptional fields of policy,

such as security or economy.

And the examples are NATO,

Eurasian Economic Union, and ASEAN.

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