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International Organisations
Course Organisation:
Professor:
Liliana Andonova
+41 22 908 59 43
Office hours:
Wednesdays 12:00-14:00
(Rigot 30)
Elena Gadjanova
+41 22 908 59 47
Office hours:
Mondays 14:00-16:00
(Rigot 37)
Course Description:
This course examines international organizations: their origins, role in international affairs, and impact on state behavior. It is aimed primarily at MIA students. The first part of the course reviews theories of international institutions and organizations. The second part of the course uses the case study method to analyze the political roots, functions and historical evolution of organizations across a range of cooperation arenas: peacekeeping, trade, development, environment, human right, the European Union. This method allows students to evaluate the analytical and explanatory power of alternative theoretical approaches. The final portion of the course is allocated for presentation of original student research on international organizations, and discussions of contemporary issues related to accountability and change of international organizations.
Grading:
Discussion papers (30%)
Class participation (15 %)
Research paper (40 %)
Presentation (15%)
Syllabus:
Week 1, Sept 17: Introduction and Concepts
Week 2, Sept 23: Liberal Theories of International Institutions
- Lisa L. Martin (1992) “Interests, Power, and Multilateralism”. International Organization, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 765-792. http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-8183(199223)4 6%3A4%3C765%3AIPAM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
- Robert Keohane (1988), "International Institutions: Two Approaches," International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 379-396. http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-8833(198812)32%3A4%3C 379%3AIITA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
- Alexander Wendt (1992), “Anarchy is What States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics”, International Organization, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 391-425. http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-8183(199221)46%3A2%3C391 %3AAIWSMO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
Week 3, Sept 30: Realist Critique and Response
Week 4, Oct 7: Theories of Organizational Behavior
- Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal (1998) “Why States Act through Formal International Organizations”, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 3-32. http://jcr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/42/1/3
- Hawkins, Lake, Nielson, and Tierney, (eds.) (2006) Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (Cambridge University Press), chap. 1, p. 3-33 only.
- Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore. (1999) “The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations”, International Organization, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 699-732. http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-8183(199923)5 3%3A4%3C699%3ATPPAPO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O
Week 5, Oct 14: Security Cooperation: UN Peacekeeping
- Read UN Charter: http://www.un.org/aboutun/charter/; see also http://www.un.org/aboutun/ (section on peacekeeping)
- Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore (2004), Rules for the World. International Organizations and Global Politics. , ch. 5: Genocide and the Peacekeeping Culture at the United Nations, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), pp 121-156.
- Virginia Page Fortna. (2004) “Does Peacekeeping Keep Peace? International Intervention and the Duration of Peace after Civil War”, International Studies Quarterly Vol. 48, pp 269–292. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118754279/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
- Michael W. Doyle & Nicholas Sambanis. (2007) “The UN Record on Peacekeeping Operations” International Journal (Summer 2007), pp 495 – 518.
Week 6, Oct 21: Trade Cooperation: GATT/WTO
- John Gerard Ruggie (1988), “International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order”, International Organization, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 379-415. http://www.wto.org/english/forums_e/public_forum_e/ruggie_embedded_liberalism.pdf
- Judith Goldstein, Douglas Rivers, and Michael Tomz (2007) “Institutions in International Relations: Understanding the Effects of the GATT and the WTO on World Trade”, International Organization, Vol. 61 No. 1, pp 37-67. http://journals.cambridge. org/d ownload.php?file=%2FINO%2FINO61_01%2FS0020818307070014a.pd f&code=aacb58ac1ec39ad99f1f376d4cb1ef35
- Iida, Keisuke (2004) “Is WTO Dispute Settlement Effective?” Global Governance, Vol. 10 No 2, pp 207-225. http://www.atypon-link.com/LRP/doi/pdf/10.5555/ggov.2004.10.2.207
Week 7, Oct 28: Development: The World Bank and UNDP
- Daniel L. Nielson and Michael J. Tierney (2003), “Delegation to International Organizations: Agency Theory and World Bank Environmental Reform”, International Organization, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 241-276. http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-81 83(200321)57%3A2%3C241%3ADTIOAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3
- Devesh Kapur (2002) “The Changing Anatomy of Governance of the World Bank” in Pincus, Jonathan R. and Jeffrey A. Winters, Reinventing the World Bank (Cambridge University Press), pp. 54-79.
- Graig N. Murphy (2006), The United Nations Development Programme. A Better Way? (Cambridge University Press). Chapter 1, pp. 1-26; also pp. 268-277, and pp 299-312.
Week 8, Nov 4: Environmental Cooperation
- Peter M. Haas (2004), “Addressing the Global Governance Deficit”, Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 4 No 4, pp. 1-15. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/gep/v004/4.4haas.html
- Oran R. Young and Marc A. Levy (1999), “The Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes” in Oran R. Young (ed.) The Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes: Causal Connections and Behavioral Mechanisms (MIT Press, 1999), pp. 1-32.
- Ronald B. Mitchell (1994) “Regime Design Matters: Intentional Oil Pollution and Treaty Compliance”, International Organization, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 425-458. http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-8183(199422)48%3A3 %3C425%3ARDMIOP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
Week 9, Nov 11: Human Rights Cooperation
Week 10, November 18: The European Union
- Andrew Moravcsik (1991) “Negotiating the Single European Act: National Interests and Conventional Statecraft in the European Community”, International Organization, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 19-56. http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-8183(199124)45%3A1% 3C19%3ANTSEAN%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K
- Mark A. Pollack (1997), “Delegation, Agency, and Agenda Setting in the European Community”, International Organization, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 99-134. http://www.jstor.or g/sici?sici=0020-8183(199724)51:1%3C99:DAAASI%3E2.0.CO;2-L
- Henry Farrell and Adrienne Héritier (2007) “Co-decision and Institutional Change”, West European Politics, Vol. 30 No. 2, pp. 285-300. http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/WP-Texts/06_41.pdf
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Week 11, November 25: Research Presentations
Week 12, Dec 2: Research Presentations
Week 13, December 9: Research Presentations
Week 14, December 16: Effectiveness and Accountability
Important: Research paper due in class.
- George W. Downs, David M. Rocke, and Peter N. Barsoom (1996) “Is the Good News about Compliance Good News about Cooperation?” International Organization, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 379-406. http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-818 3(199622)50%3A3%3C379%3AITGNAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
- Liliana Botcheva and Lisa L. Martin (2001) “Institutional Effects on State Behavior: Convergence and Divergence”, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 1-26. http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-8833(200103)45%3A1%3C1%3AIEOSBC%3E2. 0.CO%3B2-V
- Ngaire Woods (2003) “Holding Inter-Governmental Institutions to Account”, Ethics and International Affairs Vol.17, No.1, pp. 69-80. http://www3.interscience .wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119924728/PDFSTART
- Ruth W. Grant and Robert O. Keohane (2005) “Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics” American Political Science Review, Vol. 99 No. 1, pp. 29-42. http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPSR%2FPSR99_01%2FS0003055 405051476a.pdf& code=59362fe66 0045ad4e5fb4dfe7e2a40f0
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