Interorganizational Relations - Einzelansicht

Global order increasingly emerges from interorganizational relations, co-operations and conflicts among international organizations as well as further state and non-state organizations. The course tends to understand and analyze interorganizational relations by focusing on international governmental organizations (IOs) that are embedded in and interacting with a societal environment that does not only consist of states. Even though the state is still an important actor, it is by far not the only one. The environment encompasses a variety of organizations beyond states, among them IOs, inter- as well as transnational non-governmental organizations (NGOs) but also rather informal, at least less formally institutionalized fora such as the Group of Twenty (G20).

Taking the omnipresence and significance of relations among these actors for granted the course’s core question is how relations between IOs and other organizations in their environment can be studied and how interorganizational relations to particular kinds of global order. Besides discussing and evaluating various theoretical approaches the course also intends to study and compare empirical cases of interorganizational relations.