In Europe

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In Europe
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What is Europe?

• Europa
• Geography
• Prior to Middle Ages
• Roman Empire
• Christendom
• Reformation
• State
• Diversity

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Early musings

• DUBOIS
• GROTIUS
• SULLY RÉPUBLIQUE TRÉS CHRÉTIENNE
• PENN
• KANT

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DEFINITIONS OF IOs

• 1800s
• CLAUDE International organisations is a
  process international organisations are a
  phase in that process(1964)
• Public/Private IGO/INGO
• UN/EU
• CRITERIA

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CRITERIA

• IGOs
• FORMAL INSTRUMENT
• THREE OR MORE
• PERMANENT SECRETARIAT
• INGO
• INT. AIMS PLUS 3
• VOTING
• PERMANENT HQs

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• INDEPENDENT LIFE
• ACTIVITY
• NON-PROFIT
• BUT ALSO TRANSNATIONAL ORGS.
• KEOHANE NYE 1971 NOT CONTROLLED BY THE CENTRAL
  FOREIGN POLICY ORGANS OF THEIR GOVERNMENT

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A DEFINITION

• ARCHER 1983
• IOS CAN BE DEFINED AS A FORMAL, CONTINUOUS
  STRUCTURE ESTABLISHED BY AGREEMENT BETWEEN
  MEMBERS FROM TWO OR MORE SOVEREIGN STATES WITH
  THE AIM OF PURSUING THE COMMON INTEREST OF THE
  MEMBERSHIP
• cf. CSCE