Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: International Relations

ORGANIZAÇÕES ECONÓMICAS INTERNACIONAIS - 2015/2016

2º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Queirós Menezes
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Paulo Amorim

Class type and School hours

Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

To present the International Economics Organizations, in the context of its increasing importance in the context of the Globalization of the Economy and in face of the perspective of Mundialization of the economics relations.

Specific Aims/Objectives

To give the students of International Relations the specific knowledge on the existence, the ends and the workings of the International Economics Organizations, contributing for its full formation in the context of the degree,and for a good preparation regarding the performance of their future national or international professional activity.

Skills to be acquired

In the end of the period the student will have to know the salient aspects of the main international economics organizations, as well as their importance not only for the functioning of the international society, but, also, their relevance in the conditioning and influences of the internal politics of the member States.

Teaching Procedures

The teaching and learning of this course includes: - Theoretician-Practical lessons, for the
transmission of contents and exemplificação of related concrete situations with these contents; -
lessons of Tutorial Orientation in view of helping the students to do meaninfull and correct
research and a complete as possible understanding of the subject.

Programme

1 Introduction
1.1 Nature, purpose and methodology
1.2 The importance of the IEO’s
1.3 The relevance of the IEO’s in the actual world order
2 The International Monetary Fund
2.1 Origins, the Bretton Woods Agreement
2.2 The 1971 Monetary Crisis
2.3 Amendments to the Statutes and Bylaws
2.4 Institutional Organization
2.5 An evaluation of the IMF activity so far
2.6 The World Bank Group
2.7 Institutional Organization
2.8 An evaluation of the World Bank activity so far
2.9 The International Finance Corporation and the International Development Association
3. The World Trade Organization
3.1 Its origins and the GATT
3.2 A brief overview of the Uruguay Round
3.3 The creation of The WTO: the Marrakesh Agreement
3.4 Main differences between the original GATT and the WTO
3.5 The WTO tasks
3.6 Institutional Organization of the WTO
3.7 An evaluation of the WTO activity so far
4. The European Organization for Economic and Development (OECD)
4.1 Origins: The Marshall Plan and the OEEC
4.2 Institutional Organization of the OEEC
4.3 The creation of OECD and its purposes
4.4 Institutional Organization of the OECD
4.5 An evaluation of the OECD activity so far
5. The European Free Trade Association and the European Economic Area
5.1 Origins and objectives
5.2 The EFTA after the Vaduz Agreement and its objectives
5.3 Institutional Organization of EFTA
5.4 An evaluation of the EFTA activity so far
5.5 The European Economic Area
6. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
6.1 Origins
6.2 Institutional Organization
6.3 An evaluation of OPEC activities so far
7. The European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)
Origins
The European Monetary System and the Euro
The governance of the EMU
The Monetary Policy Management
Institutions and Mechanisms of governance
The Economic Policy Management
The European Internal Market and the Common Policies
The free movement of production factors
The framework for free competition
Common Policies
An evaluation of the EMU and the Internal Market results so far
8. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the MERCOSUR
8.1 The NAFTA
Origins
Institutional Organization
An evaluation of the NAFTA activities
8.2 The MERCOSUR, Common Market of the South
Origins
Institutional Organization
An evaluation of the MERCOSUR activities
8.3 Relations between the NAFTA and the EU
8.4 Relations between the MERCOSUR and the EU
9. Conclusions and an assessment of the course

Evaluation Type

Continuous assessment follows the parameters of existing legislation and may be modified
according to changes in that legislation and the guidelines of the University.
Continuous assessment will depend on the positive contribution of the following:
1. presence and active participation in class;
2. carrying out two tests of continuous assessment;
3. elaboration of case study to present and discuss in class, with a written version

Teaching Resources

Handouts provided by the teacher, scientific articles;
Case study;
Guidelines in order to carry out practical work.
Power Point documents.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

- International Economics Organizations
- Economy
- Globalization
- Moundialization
- Companies
- State

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography