30193 - MANAGEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL AND SUPRANATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

The student learns:

Main topics

• The changing environment of international organizations. Globalization and governance. A comparative framework of similarities and differences among international organizations.
• Models of decision-making and negotiation in multi-level governance; managing interdependence at the international level; partnerships and regimes; coordination in international policy management.
• The United Nations system: institutions, agencies, programmes and funds.
• The United Nations: management systems. The management of projects of cooperation to development.
• The EU: supranational or intergovernmental? The institutions and policy processes of the European Union.
• Reform of the European Commission and European governance. Innovation and reform in the public management of European institutions.
• Policy transfer in public management at the national and international levels.

Attending students
There are two different possibilities:

- Two written parts during the term

- An oral exam (on the whole program) on official dates from June 2014 until February 2015

Attending students have the opportunity to complete group projects. The evaluation of the project enables students to add up to 3 points to i) the average mark of the two written parts or ii) the mark of the oral exam. Participation in the projects is optional.

Non attending students

Only oral exam on official dates.

M. Wieczorek, U. Naujoks, R. Bartlett, Management of International and Supranational Organisations, Course Collection, Egea (all readings are compulsory for the exam)