The New Multilateralism: Public-Private Partnerships in Global Governance
News
22/11/2009 Group presentation files have been uploaded to the password-protected section.
22/11/2009 Schedule for the class on 1/12 has been moved to 3/12, from 6:30p.m. on at R2.
28/09/2009 Schedule for the class on 29/09 has been changed. It will be held at 6:30p.m. at R3.
28/09/2009 Research question and one-paragraph justification are due on 29/09 in class.
19/09/2009 Syllabus updated. Please note the content of week 5 and 6 have been interchanged. The speaker willing be coming during week 6 instead of week 5.
19/09/2009 Guidelines for writing the critical paper are available here.
14/09/2009 Syllabus updated. Please download the latest version on this page.
14/09/2009 Please note that the lectures will be held from Tuesday 10:15-12:00, and not the time that was indicated on the course registration webpage.
E802
Course Organization
Professor:
Liliana Andonova
Course Description
This seminar examines the causes and consequences of public-private partnerships in global governance. What are the politics and patterns of collaborative governance between State and non-State actors in the international arena? How do public-private partnerships interact with international organisations and how do they affect the multilateral governance system? Can we assess partnership effectiveness through systematic research? Students will engage with these topics through advanced readings, discussions, lectures, and empirical research on a diverse set of partnerships, including partnerships for environment, health, children’s issues, development, and human rights.
Multilateral cooperation used to be the realm, almost exclusively, of states and intergovernmental organizations. Increasingly these public actors cooperate with a variety of non-state organizations, including companies, foundations, and advocacy groups, as partners in global governance. This research seminar examines the causes and consequence of the new public-private multilateralism. What explains the contemporary diversification of multilateral governance? Who are the main entrepreneurs of partnerships? Can we assess the effectiveness of international public-private partnerships through systematic research? The course begins with a survey of the changing architecture of cooperation and theoretical approaches to analyzing the effects of institutions. The second part focuses on the politics and patterns of public-private partnerships. The third part of the course is devoted to in-depth examination of the role and effectiveness of public-private partnerships in several areas of cooperation: development, environment, public health, children’s issues and human rights.
Requirements: Students are expected to have done the readings and be prepared to discuss them in class.One critical discussion papers of 5 double-spaced pages on assigned readings should be submitted in class between Weeks 4 and 7 (student’s choice, sign-up sheet will be distributed in class). Students writing on a specific set of readings should also post prior to the selected class (and no later than Monday 12:00 noon) a list of 3 discussion questions on the week’s readings. Students will also submit a research paper (20-25 double-spaced pages). The paper will examine systematically the politics and effects of one or several public-private partnerships in areas of governance covered in the third section of the class. Research findings will be presented in relevant class sessions.
Readings:Journal articles are available electronically through the library webpage. A complete course packet with these and the book chapters is available for consultation at the library.The course pack available for student purchase, which only includes those readings that are not available electronically, can be bought at the Imprimerie Minute. (http://www.imprimerie-minute.ch)
Grading:
Class participation (15%)
Short discussion paper (20 %)
Final research paper (50%)
Presentation (15%)
Class Schedule
Week 1, Sept 15: Introduction
Week 2, Sept 22: The evolving global governance architecture
Abbott, Kenneth and Snidal, Duncan. 2000. Hard and Soft Law in International Governance. International Organization, 54:3, p421-456
Kaul, Inge. 2006. Exploring the policy space between markets and states. Global public-private partnerships. In Kaul, I. and Conceicao, P., eds. The New Public Finance. Responding to Global Challenges. (Oxford University Press).
Reinicke, Wolfgang H. 1999. The Other World Wide Web: Global Public Policy Networks. Foreign Policy. Winter 1999/2000, 44. Gereffi, Gary, Ronnie Garcia-Johnson, and Erica Sasser. 2001. The NGO-Industrial Complex. Foreign Policy, 125:56
Week 3, September 29: Research design and analysis of partnership impacts
Research question and one-paragraph justification due in class
King, G., Keohane, R.O., and S. Verba. Designing Social Inquiry. Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Chap. 1, 3-33.
Young, O, ed. 1999. The Effectiveness Of International Environmental Regimes: Causal Connections And Behavioral Mechanisms (MIT Press), ch. 1 by Young and Levy.
Biermann et al. 2007. Multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development: does the promise hold? In Glasbergen et al., eds. Partnerships, Governance and Sustainable Development. Reflections on Theory and Practice (Edward Elgar).
Part I. The Politics of Global Public-Private Partnerships Week 4, Oct 6: From Conflict to Partnerships?
Covey, J.G. 1998. Critical Cooperation? Influencing the World Bank through Policy Dialogue and Operational Cooperation. In Fox, J.A. and L.D. Brown, eds.The Struggle for Accountability. The World Bank, NGOs, and Grassroots Movement, MIT Press, p. 82-119.
Glasbergen, P. and R. Groenenberg (2001). Environmental partnerships in sustainable Energy. European Environment 11: 1- 13
Alexander Cooley, James Ron. 2002. The NGO Scramble: Organizational Insecurity and the Political Economy of Transnational Action. International Security, 27:1, pp. 5-39
Carino, Joji. 2003. On Partnership. In Witte, Jan Martin, Charlotte Streck and Thorsten Benner, eds. Progresses or Peril? Global Public Policy Institute, pp. 47-50.
Ottaway, Marina. 2001. Corporatism Goes Global: International Organizations, Nongovernmental Organization Networks, and Transnational Business. Global Governance, 7:3, p. 265, 28p.
Kolk, Ans et al. 2008. Business and partnerships for development. European Management Journal (2008) 26, 262– 273.
Week 6, Oct 13:
The Business of Public-Private Partnerships: A Practitioners Perspective Presentation by Jacqueline Coté, IHEID, ICC
Week 7, Oct 27: International Organizations, States and Partnerships
Ruggie, John Gerard. The United Nations and Globalization: Patterns and Limits of Institutional Adaptation. Global Governance, Jul-Sep2003, Vol. 9 Issue 3, p301, 21p.
Nelson, Jane. 2002. Building Partnerships. Cooperation between the United Nations System and the Private Sector (United Nations), ch. 2 “Challenges and lessons of cooperation,” pp. 149-162.
Liliana B. Andonova. Globalization, Agency, and Institutional Innovation: The Rise of Public-Private Partnerships in Global Governance. Goldfarb Center Working Paper No. 2006-004, March, 2006, Colby College.
Witte and Reinicke (2005) Business UNusual, Chapters 2 (p7-34 only)
Peter Utting. 2000. UN-Business Partnerships: Whose Agenda Counts? Paper presented at seminar on “Partnerships for Development or Privatization of the Multilateral System?, Oslo, Norway, 8 December, 2000.
II Impact of Public-Private Partnerships on Multilateral Governance Week 8, November 3: Global Environmental Partnerships
Haas, Peter M. 2004. Addressing the Global Governance Deficit. Global Environmental Politics, Nov2004, Vol. 4 Issue 4, p1-15,
Andonova, Liliana. 2009. International Organizations Inc. - Patterns of Environmental Partnerships. in International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance.
Bäckstrand, Karin. 2008. Accountability of Networked Climate Governance: The Rise of Transnational Climate Partnerships. Global Environmental Politics, Aug2008, Vol. 8 Issue 3, p74-102.
Week 9, November 10: Partnerships for Development: The World Bank and UNDP
Fox, J.A. 1998. When does reform policy influence practice? Lesson from the Bankwide resettlement review. In Fox, J.A. and L.D. Brown, eds.The Struggle for Accountability. The World Bank, NGOs, and Grassroots Movement, MIT Press, p. 303-345.
Klaus Dingwerth. 2005. The Democratic Legitimacy of Public-Private Rule Making: What Can We Learn from the World Commission on Dams? Global Governance 11 (2005), 65–83
World Bank. 2002. Addressing the Challenges of Globalization. An Independent Evaluation of the World Banks’Approach to Global Programs. Ch. 1-3, p. 1-31.
Sorensen, M.B. and Petersen, S.M. Partnering for Development. Making it happen. UNDP report, Read p. 14-36 only, browse 38-61, prepare to talk about 2 of the listed partnerships:http://www.undp.org/partners/business/UNDP-booklet-web.pdf
Proposed cases: UNDP and Civil Society Organizations: A Practice Note on Engagement:
Reich, Michael R., ed. 2002. Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health. Chapters 1, 6, 7
Richter, Judith. 2004. Public–private Partnerships for Health: A trend with no alternatives? Development (2004) 47(2), 43–48. Cases: GAVI; Roll Back Malaria; Stop TB; Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health; the Global Fund
Week 11, November 24: Partnerships for Children’s Issues
Sikkink, Kathryn. 1986. Codes of conduct for transnational corporations: the case of the WHO/UNICEF Code. International Organization, 40: 4, p815-840, 26p.
Bartlett, Christopher A, Vincent Dessain, and Aders Sjoman. 2006. IKEA’s Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor. Harvard Business School Case Study.
Nielsen, Michael, E. 2005. The politics of corporate responsibility and child labour in the Bangladeshi garment industry. International Affairs, May2005, Vol. 81 Issue 3, p559-580, 22p
David Weissbrodt. 2008. International Standard-Setting on the Human Rights Responsibilities of Businesses. Berkeley Journal of International Law, 26:2, 373-391.
Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. 2002. Norms on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2003/12/Rev.2 Adopted at its 22nd meeting, August 2003. http://www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.Sub.2.2003.12.Rev.2.En
John Gerard Ruggie. 2007. Business and Human Rights: The Evolving International Agenda, American Journal of International Law, 101 A.J.I.L. 819
Week 13, December 8: Ethics and accountability of public-private partnerships
Roberts et al. 2002. The Ethics of Public-Private Partnerships in Public-Private Partnerships for Health, p. 67-86.
Grant, Ruth and Robert O. Keohane. 2005. Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics. American Political Science Review Vol. 99, No. 1, 29-43.
Rosett, Claudia. Can the UN’s Global Compact Initiative Teach Good Corporate Behavior? FoxNews.com, 07/11/2007. Available via:
Ruggie, John Gerard. Global_governance.net: The Global Compact as Learning Network. Global Governance, Oct-Dec2001, Vol. 7 Issue 4, p371, 8p; (AN 5687712)
Week 14, December 15: Partnership Effectiveness: Summary of Research Results
