1. What is the role of international organizations in today’s world?
2. Select one of the organizations studied and explain the function and importance of the selected organization.
1. What is the role of international organizations in today’s world?
2. Select one of the organizations studied and explain the function and importance of the selected organization.
Pick one international organization (UN, EU, ICC, etc.). Explain its mission and function. Assess how issues of state sovereignty are dealt with for member countries. Use evidence (cite sources) to support your response from assigned readings or online lessons, and at least TWO outside scholarly sources.
Class, pick one international organization (i.e. the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), International Criminal Court (ICC), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), etc.) Explain the organization’s mission and function. Also assess how issues of state sovereignty are dealt with for member countries.
Here are some relevant links to get you started.
European Union: https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
United Nations: http://www.un.org/en/index.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
International Criminal Court: https://www.icc-cpi.int (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site./
North Atlantic Treaty Organization: https://www.nato.int/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Why was Canada so eager to help set up international
organizations right after the war?
This is a mini-essay (2 pages, must be 500 words exact, not including references).
Read the Episode 1, Bibliography which my professor talks about everything that we can include in the essay.
Political Science Style Guide:
Essays written for this class follow the Canadian Journal of Political Science (CJPS) Editorial Style Guidelines.
For a detailed description of the guidelines go to
https://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/documents/pdfs/Editorial%20Style%20Guidelines%202008.pdf
Endnotes:
If any at all, manuscripts should contain only brief and necessary explanatory endnotes listed as “Endnotes”
following the text and preceding the list of references.
Can use these references suggested by the professor:
1. Chapnick, Adam. “The Golden Age: A Canadian Foreign Policy Paradox.” International Journal, 64. 1
(2008): 205–221.
2. Winston Churchill. The Sinews of Peace (‘Iron Curtain Speech’)
March 5, 1946
Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri
3. Mackenzie, Hector. “Shades of Gray? The Foundations of Canadian Policy in World Affairs in Context.”
American Review of Canadian Studies 37.4 (2007): 459-473.
4. Reid, Escott. “The Birth of the North Atlantic Alliance.” International Journal 22.3 (1967): 426-440.
5. Spencer, Robert A. “Triangle into Treaty: Canada and the Origins of NATO.” International Journal, 14. 2
(1959): 87–98.