While occasionally individual states in the international system have sought to find the solution to problems that they face alone - be they security-related, financial, social or environmental - the nature of the 21st century's geopolitical issues almost demand a collective, transnational response. But what entity or entities serve to facilitate this transnational cooperation? Enter international organizations, or IOs. This course is centered on introducing students to the landscape of global IOs that exist in the world today. To that end, this course investigates the emergence, purposes, and contemporary statuses of a variety of the major IOs that mark the international relations landscape today. These will include global IOs (like the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the International Criminal Court), regional IOs (like the European Union [EU], African Union [AU], and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations [ASEAN]); and a variety of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)(like Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International, and the International Committee of the Red Cross). The course also assesses the impact and relevance of international organizations as an issue of concern to Army officers and national security professionals.
International Relations scholars often emphasize "anarchy" as an ordering principle of the international system. Yet "organization" - the arrangement of actors and power in international affairs, as well as the existence of formal organizations like the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and NATO - is an elemental feature of world politics. This course examines this crucial area of IR theory and practice. The course introduces conceptual approaches to the study and historical development of international organization and global governance and alternative theories to describe, explain, or predict events or developments in this field. It examines the system-level, domestic sources and consequences of international organization and introduces leading formal organizations in the international system. The course also assesses the impact and relevance of international organization as an issue of concern to Army
officers and national security professionals.
International Relations scholars often emphasize "anarchy" as an ordering principle of the international system. Yet "organization" - the arrangement of actors and power in international affairs, as well as the existence of formal organizations like the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and NATO - is an elemental feature of world politics. This course examines this crucial area of IR theory and practice. The course introduces conceptual approaches to the study and historical development of international organization and global governance and alternative theories to describe, explain, or predict events or developments in this field. It examines the system-level, domestic sources and consequences of international organization and introduces leading formal organizations in the international system. The course also assesses the impact and relevance of international organization as an issue of concern to Army
officers and national security professionals.
This is a course that will study the economic thought process as applied to natural resources and the environment. Our study will fall into three basic categories and the course will be broken into three corresponding blocks. The first block will introduce and elaborate the microeconomic and macroeconomic principles and theory that apply to the study of the environment and natural resources. This section will include the concepts of equilibria, efficiency, and equity. The second block will concentrate on applying the economic theory developed in the first block to exhaustible and renewable natural resources. The third block will apply our new understanding of the environmental economics to the problems of economic growth and development. (Note: dropped to add SS464 Homeland Security, 2006-1)
