Course Organization
E653 - Fall - Course -6 ECTS
Wednesdays 10:15-12:00 (R3)
PROFESSOR
Liliana Andonova
liliana.andonova@graduateinstitute.ch
+41 22 908 59 43
Office hours:
Wednesdays 12:00-14:00
(Rigot 30)
ASSISTANT
Nell Marie Williams
Nell.Williams@graduateinstitute.ch
+41 22 908 59 51
Office hours:
Tuesdays 16:00 -17:00, Thursdays: 16:00 – 17:00
(Rigot 38)
Course Description
This advanced seminar examines the causes and consequences of public-private partnerships in international relations. While such cooperation is not entirely new, the number of global public-private partnerships has risen rapidly from several unique institutions such as the International Red Cross or the International Labor Organization, to hundreds of initiatives at present. What explains this institutional diversification? Who are the main entrepreneurs of partnerships? Can we assess their effectiveness through systematic research? Students will engage in these topics through advanced readings, discussion, lectures, and empirical research on diverse set of partnerships, including partnerships for environment, health, children’s issues, development, and human rights.
Syllabus
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. The number of public-private partnerships in international relations has risen rapidly from several unique cases such as the International Red Cross or the International Labor Organization to hundreds of initiatives at present. This course 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 publicprivate 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: UN operations, development, environment, public health, and human rights.
Requirements:
Students are expected to have done the readings and be prepared to discuss them in class. Two critical discussion papers (2-3 double-spaced pages each) on assigned readings should be submitted in class: one during Week 2 of the class; the second paper can be submitted during weeks 3, 5, 6, or 7 (student’s choice).
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 ordered online from the Imprimerie Minute website at http://www.imprimerie-minute.ch/iheid.htm
Grading:
- Class participation (15%)
- Discussion papers (30 %)
- Research paper (40%)
- Presentation (15%)
Class Schedule
Week 1, Sept 17: Introduction
Part I. The evolving global governance architecture
Week 2, Sept 24: International law and public-private partnerships
Discussion paper due in class
- 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, 125:56-65.
Week 3, October 1: 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.
- Ottaway, Marina. 2001. Corporatism Goes Global: International Organizations, Nongovernmental Organization Networks, and Transnational Business. Global Governance, 7:3, p. 265, 28p.
- 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.
- Karin Bäckstrand. 2008. Accountability of Networked Climate Governance: The Rise of Transnational Climate Partnerships. Global Environmental Politics, 8:3, 74-102
Week 4, Oct 8: 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.
- Sabine Campe and Marianne Beisheim. Transnational Water Public-Private Partnerships: Explaining their success or failure. Prepared for delivery at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 28-31, 2008
II. The Politics of Public-Private Partnerships
Week 5, Oct 15: Business Perspective
Proposed research design (one-page) due in class, 5% of final paper grade
- Ann Florini. 2003. Business and Global Governance: The Growing Role of Corporate Codes of Conduct. The Brookings Institution. Available via http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2003/spring_business_florini.aspx?p=1
- Klaus Schwab. 2008. Global Corporate Citizenship. Working With Governments and Civil Society. Foreign Affairs. Volume 87 No. 1, 107-118. Available via: http://www.weforum.org/pdf/Schwab_Article.pdf
- Björn Stigson. Walking the Talk – The business case for sustainable development. Speech for AGM of the Sustainable Performance Group, May 7, 2003. Available via: http://www.wbcsd.org/DocRoot/65ehgNW9rXVpRZlkL35Q/20030507_stigson.doc
- Kolk, Ans et al. 2008. Business and partnerships for development. European Management Journal (2008) 26, 262– 273.
- Haufler, Virginia. 1999. A Public Role for the Private Sector. Industry Self-Regulation in a Global Economy. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, ch. 1.
Week 6, Oct 22: NGOs: 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. 303-345.
- 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. Available via: http://www.gppi.net/fileadmin/gppi/Carino_Article_01.pdf
- Optional: Bern Declaration. 2007. Clean Words, Dirty Business. Available via: http://www.evb.ch/en/p5131.html.
Week 7, Oct 29: States and International Organizations
- 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. Available at: http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/goldfarb/publications/?clear=y
III Structure and Impacts of Public-Private Partnerships in International Relations
Week 8, November 5: The United Nations and Partnerships
- Witte and Reinicke (2005) Business UNusual, Chapters 2 (p7-34 only) and 3
- Ruggie, John Gerard. Global_governance.net: The Global Compact as Learning Network. Global Governance, Oct-Dec2001, Vol. 7 Issue 4, p371, 8p; (AN 5687712)
- 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. Available via: http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpAuxPages)/A687857BD5E36114C1256C3600434B5F/$file/utting.pdf
- Optional: Rosett, Claudia. Can the UN’s Global Compact Initiative Teach Good Corporate Behavior? FoxNews.com, 07/11/2007. Available via: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288989,00.html
Proposed case studies: Global Compact: www.unglobalcompact.org; United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP): www.un.org/unfip/
Week 9, November 12: Global Environmental Partnerships
- Haas, Peter M. 2004. Addressing the Global Governance Deficit. Global Environmental Politics, Nov 2004, Vol. 4 Issue 4, p1-15,
- Andonova, Liliana. 2008. International Organizations Inc. - Patterns of Environmental Partnerships. Forthcoming in International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance.
- Charlotte Streck. 2001. The Global Environment Facility—a Role Model for International Governance? Global Environmental Politics 1:2, 72-94
- 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).
Proposed case studies: GEF Small Grants Program http://sgp.undp.org/; Prototype Carbon Fund: http://carbonfinance.org/Router.cfm?Page=PCF
Week 10, November 19: 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, available via: http://www.undp.org/partners/business/UNDP-booklet-web.pdf. Read p. 14-36 only, browse 38-61, prepare to talk about 2 of the listed partnerships
- UNDP and Civil Society Organizations: A Practice Note on Engagement: http://www.undp.org/partners/cso/publications/UNDP%20CSO%20Policy.doc
- World Bank: Global Programs and Partnerships: http://go.worldbank.org/1FWQ6HKKY0; UNDP Partnership we site: http://www.undp.org/partners/
Week 11, November 26: Partnerships for Health
- 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 12, December 3: 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
See also: UNICEF Guidelines and Manual for Working with the Business Community, Available via http://www.unicef.org/videoaudio/PDFs/Summaryguidelines.doc
Cases: http://www.unicef.org/corporate_partners/index.html
Week 13, December 10: Partnerships for Human Rights
- 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. Available via: 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
Cases: Kimberly Process: http://www.kimberleyprocess.com/; Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: http://eitransparency.org/;
Week 14, December 17: Partnership Effectiveness: Summary of Research Results
Final research papers due
