POSC 215 International Organizations
This course is designed to provide students with a deeper understanding of leading organizations and processes that enable order, stability, and cooperation in the international system. It examines critical approaches to the study of international organizations and the impact these organizations exert on various issues and areas of the contemporary world. It also evaluates the United Nations and the European Union and analyzes the unique functions both perform and the novel challenges both are confronted within an increasingly more complex and interdependent world. Typically, students also will study the work of a nongovernmental organization, so as to understand how such NGOs develop and the philosophical and political challenges they face. Typically offered alternate years.