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This article discusses the results of a small-N survey of established academic staff within the discipline of politics and international relations and how they view research-teaching links. It reveals that even among this small group there are very different views as to the relationship between teaching and research. The article argues that more work is needed to produce a fuller understanding of the nexus across the discipline and that research needs to be integrated at all levels of undergraduate study. Fundamentally, we need to make the link explicit to both students and other stakeholders to ensure that the nexus remains viable in the future. Adapted from the source document.

This paper outlines the contours of a conceptual examination of the trends of UN change that have emerged in the post-bipolar era. The author seeks to understand what the results of the changes are and how they manifest themselves. Due to the complexity of the object under study, the duration of the analyzed period and its eventfulness, the paper takes into account only some typical fragments of the general picture, and some judgments and conclusions are expressed in a discussion manner. I analyze the following patterns of change have characterized the main UN bodies: new goals and activities of the bodies themselves and the organization as a whole, more topics under discussion, greater organizational autonomy, higher costs, greater involvement of civil society organizations and experts in agenda setting and various activities, structural reforms, summitization of the General Assembly and Security Council, the creation of high-level segments of ECOSOC, and strengthening of the coordinating role of the Committee of Senior Management. In methodological terms, the article is based on a multilevel model of an international organization developed in the framework of the sociological approach.