International Organizations
Overview
Objectives:
This course intends to give an insight to the students into the multiple roles of the international organizations in the world politics. It would enable the students to have an understanding about the impact and working of these bodies on the international as well as regional issues.
Contents:
1. Conceptual framework of International Organizations
2. Origin and Development of International Organizations
3. League of Nations: formation, functioning and causes of failure
4. United Nations: formation, functioning aims and objectives
5. UN and its specialized agencies
6. The role of UN in collective security, preventive diplomacy, peacekeeping operations
7. Future of UN
Credit hours/ Marks:- 03 Cr. Hrs.
1. A Leroy Bennett, International Organizations, New York, 2001.
2. Avi Shlaim, International Organizations in World Politics, New York yearbook, 1975.
3. Buzan, Barry., Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Society, 2003.
4. David A. Key (ed)., The United Nations Political System, latest edition.
5. David Armstrong., The Rise of the International Organization: A Short History, 2003.
6. Goodspeed, S. S., The Nature and Function of International Organizations, latest edition.
7. Mahajan, V. D., International Relations Since 1919., S. Chand and Co., New Delhi, 1993.
8. Paul Taylor and A. J. R. Groom (eds)., International Organization – A Conceptual Approach, latest edition.