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.