International institution

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In political science , international institutions are understood to mean all those rules and norms-related patterns of behavior or processes that lead to mutual convergence, i.e. alignment, of the behavioral expectations of the actors involved. In international politics, four types of international institutions are distinguished:

  • First: international organizations have actor quality, i. H. in them norms and rules are anchored that enable the institutions to act.
  • Second: International regimes contain substantive and procedural norms and rules that regulate the behavior of actors in a specific problem area.
  • Third: International networks only contain procedural (no content-related) norms and rules for a limited problem area.
  • Fourth: International regulatory principles such as international law and treaties contain the basic norms and rules according to which international politics is carried out. The norms and rules do not relate to a specific political field, but to international relations in general. Example: UN Convention on Human Rights.

literature

  • Schimmelfennig (2010): International Politics. Stuttgart: UTB-Verlag.
  • Rittberger / Zangl (2003): International Organizations: Politics and History. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
  • Amerasinghe (2005): Principles of the Institutional Law of International Organizations. 2nd Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-83714-6 .
  • Kelsen (1979): General Theory of Norms.
  • Kelsen (1944): Peace through Law.