POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: World Bank Group

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1000
• Professor: Jones-Imhotep

Document Summary

International organizations come in such a variety of forms that they are difficult to define, both with respect to their relationship with states and the state system as well as in terms of their constituent elements. Ir scholars interested in the contributions that international organizations make to the international system as a whole tend to focus on intergovernmental organizations and non governmental organizations. Although multinational corporations and terrorist and other criminal organizations operating in the international sphere do constitute international organizations of a kind, they are usually treated separately. Private organizations also achieved a significant international presence in the 19th and early 20th centuries, those with philanthropic aims contributing to the development of humanitarian principles and the idea of international morality. Developments in transport and commtech stimulated the growth of international organizations, and they themselves became the subject of international agreements and associations.