The Study of International Politics IV: Multilateral Governance and International Organisations

Course Organization

Professors:
Thomas Biersteker
Liliana Andonova

Course assistant:

Elena Gadjanova

 

Course Description

This course will explore the history, evolution, and institutional characteristics of multilateral governance over the course of the past century, continuing up to current debates about the governance of the contemporary international system. Different institutional forms, innovations, and ad hoc arrangements for governing the global system will be surveyed, including both formal and informal institutional mechanisms.

 

 

Seminar sessions:

 

14 September: Introduction to the course

 

There will be no formal meeting on this day, since classes do not begin officially until 15 September. Students who intend to enroll in the course, however, will be able to download the syllabus in advance and will be expected to have completed the assigned readings for the discussion at the first session of the seminar on 21 September.

 

SECTION I: CONCEPTS OF GOVERNANCE AND MULTILATERALISM

 

21 September: Conceptions of Governance and Multilateralism

 

• James Rosenau, Governance without Government, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), Chapter 1;

• Thomas Biersteker, “Global Governance” in Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Victor Mauer (eds.) Routledge Companion to Security (New York and London: Routledge Publishers, 2009)

• John Ruggie, Multilateralism Matters: the Theory and Praxis of an International Forum (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), Chapter 1

• Lisa Martin, “Interests, Power, and Multilateralism” in International Organization, Vol. 46, No. 4, 1992; pp. 765-792.

SECTION II: THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN THE 20^TH CENTURY

28 September: The 19^th Century Inheritance – Balance of Power as Governance during the Age of Imperialism

 

• Kal Holsti, “Governance without Government: Polyarchy in Nineteenth Century European International Politics,” Chapter 2 in Rosenau and Czempiel (eds.) Governance without Government: Order and Change in World Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

• Paul Schroeder, “The nineteenth century system: balance of power or political equilibrium?” Review of International Studies, Vol. 15, No 2, April 1989, pp. 135-154

• Norman Angell, The Great Illusion, Chapters II and III, pp. 15-48, (New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1910)

• Henry Noel Brailsford, The War of Steel and Gold, Chapter 1, pp. 9-46, 1916. http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/comment/Brailsford/AP01.htm

• G. Lowes Dickenson, The International Anarchy, 1904-1914, (London: Allen and Unwin, 1937) Chapter 1, pp. 3-12.

 

5 October: The Idea of the League of Nations as a Basis for Global Governance

 

• John A. Hobson, Towards International Government, (London: George Allen&Unwin, 1916), Chapter 1, pp. 11-27.

• Sir Halford Mackinder, Democratic Ideals and Reality, (New York: Holt, 1919), Chapter 6, pp. 148-181

• Woodrow Wilson, "The Fourteen Points Speech," 1918. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1918wilson.html

• John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapters I, III, and IV, 1920.  http://historicaltextarchive.com/keynes/

• Georges Clemenceau, Grandeur and Misery of Victory, (New York: Harcourt, 1930), Chapters XI and XVI, pp. 170-192 and 277-285.

• Arnold Wolfers, Britain and France between the Two Wars, (London: RS Means, 1966), Introduction and Conclusion, pp. 3-8 and 380-390.

 

12 October: Learning from the Past to Design the Post WWII Order

 

• Hans Morgenthau, Politics among Nations, (New York: Knopf, 1966), Chapters 28 and 29, pp. 459-499.

• John Ikenberry, After Victory, (Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press, 2000) Chapters 1 and 6.

• John G. Ruggie, “International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic System,” International Organization Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 379-415

• Ian Hurd, After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the UN Security Council, (Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press, 2007), Chapters 1 and 5, pp. 1-25 and 111-136

• Eric Helleiner, States and the Re-emergence of Global Finance (New York: Cornell University Press, 1996), Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 1-50

 

SECTION III: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GOVERNANCE AND MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE POST WWII ERA

 

19 October: Theories of Hegemonic Stability

 

• Charles P. Kindleberger, The World in Depression, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), Chapter 14, pp. 291-308

• Robert Gilpin, War and Change in World Politics, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), Chapters 1 and 6, pp. 9-49 and 211-244

• Stephen D. Krasner (1991), “Global Communications and National Power: Life on the Pareto Frontier” World Politics, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 336-366

• Susan Strange, States and Markets, (London: Continuum, 1988) Chapter 2, pp 23-42

• Henry Nau, The Myth of America’s Decline, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), Chapter 1, pp. 3-14

 

26 October: Theories of Regimes and International Cooperation

 

• Stephen Krasner, 1982 International Regimes, pp. 1-21, 1981.

• Robert Keohane, 1984 After Hegemony, Chapters 4-6, pp. 49-109, 1984.

• Robert Axelrod, 1986, The Evolution of Cooperation, Chapter 4, pp. 73-87.

• Kenneth Oye, 1986, Cooperation Under Anarchy, Chapter 1, pp. 1-24, 1986. (Reprinted from article in World Politics)

• Robert Keohane, 1988, "International Institutions: Two Approaches," International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 379-396

 

2 November: Theories of International Society

 

• Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), Chapters 1-4, pp. 3-98

• Hedley Bull and Adam Watson, The Evolution of International Society, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), Chapters 1 and 25.

• Christian Reus-Smit, "The Constitutional Structure of International Society and the Nature of Fundamental Institutions" International Organization Vol. 51 No. 4, 1997, pp. 555-89. Stable URL:

• Andrew Hurrell, On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society, (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2007), Chapter 1, pp 1-24

 

9 November: Theories of Regional Institutions as a Basis for Multilateral Governance

 

• David Mitrany, "The Functional Approach to World Organization," International Affairs, Vol. 24 No. 2, July 1948

• Karl DeutschNorth Atlantic Area," in International Political Communities, pp. 1-24, 1957.

• Louise Fawcett and Andrew Hurrell, Regionalism and World Politics: Regional Organizations and International Order, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), Chapter 11, pp. 309-329.

• Paul Pierson, “The Path to European Integration: A Historical Institutionalist Analysis” Comparative Political Studies Vol. 29, 1996, pp 123 – 145.

• Andrew Moravcsik, The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht, (New York: Cornell University Press, 1998), chapter 1.

• Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks, “Unraveling the Central State, But How? Types of Multi-Level Governance”, American Political Science Review Vol. 97 No. 2, 2003, pp 233-43.

 

16 November: Theories of Organizational Behavior

 

• Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal, “Why States Act through Formal International Organizations”, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1998, pp. 3-32

• Hawkins, Lake, Nielson, and Tierney, (eds.) Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2006), chap. 1, pp. 3-33

• Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore, “The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations”, International Organization, Vol. 53, No. 4, 1999, pp. 699-732. Stable URL:

• Peter Haas and Ernst B. Haas, “Learning to Learn: Improving International Governance,” Global Governance, Vol. 1 No. 3, 1995

• Alastair Iain Johnston, 2001. "Treating International Institutions as Social Environments" International Studies Quarterly Vol. 45 No. 4, pp 487-516

• Henry Farrell and Adrienne Héritier “Contested Competences in Europe: Incomplete Contracts and Interstitial Institutional Change” Special issue of West European Politics, Vol. 30 No. 2; 2007, see “Introduction: Contested competences in the European Union,” pp. 227 – 243 and “Co-decision and Institutional change”, pp. 285 – 300 

 

23 November: Theories of the Role of Transnational Networks in Global Governance

 

• Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (New York: Cornell University Press, 1998) Chapter 1

• Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink, “International Norm Dynamics and Political Change”, International Organization, Vol. 52 No. 4, 1998

• Anne Marie Slaughter, A New World Order, (Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press, 2006), Chapter 1, pp. 1-64

• Liliana Anodnova, Michele Betsill and Harriet Bulkeley “Transnational Climate Governance”, Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 9 No. 2, pp 52-73

• Ole Jacob Sending and Iver B. Neumann “Governance to Governmentality: Analyzing NGOs, States, and Power”, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 50, 2006, pp 651–672

 

30 November: Theories about the Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance

 

• Claire Cutler, Virginia Hauffler, and Tony Porter, Private Authority and International Affairs (New York: New York University Press, 1999), Chapter 1, pp 3-30

• Rodney Hall and Thomas Biersteker, The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance, (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2003), Chapter 1, pp 3-22 and Chapter 10, pp 203-222

• John Gerard Ruggie, “Reconstituting the Global Public Domain: Issues, Actors, and Practices” A Working Paper of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, HarvardUniversity. Available at: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/CSRI/publications/workingpaper_6_ruggie.pdf

• Liliana Andonova, “International Organizations Inc. - Patterns of Environmental Partnerships” In Biermann et. al.  International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance (London: Routledge, 2009)

 

SECTION IV: CONTEMPORARY GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES

 

7 December: Institutional Adaptation or Institutional Redesign?

 

• Paul Kennedy, The Parliament of Man, (New York: Vintage, 2007), Chapter 8, pp. 243-280

• Thomas Weiss, What’s Wrong with the UN and How to Fix It (New York: Polity Press, 2008), Chapter 1

• Peter M. Haas “Addressing the Global Governance Deficit”, Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 4 No 4, 2004, pp. 1-15.

• James Lindsay and Ivo Daalder, America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy, (Washington: The Brookings Institution, 2001), Chapters 1 and 12

• Charlotte Ku and Paul F. Diehl, “Filling In the Gaps: Extrasystemic Mechanisms for Addressing Imbalances Between the International Legal Operating System and the Normative System” Global Governance, Vol. 12, 2006, p. 161-83

• Daniel Drezner, “The Viscosity of Global Governance: When is Forum-Shopping Expensive?” (Unpublished paper)

 

14 December: The Challenges of Globalization and Security Governance

 

• Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye,  “Introduction,” In Nye, J and Donahue, J., eds. Governance in a Globalizing World  (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2000)

• Devesh Kapur, “The Changing Anatomy of Governance of the World Bank” in Pincus, Jonathan R. and Jeffrey A. Winters, Reinventing the World Bank (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2002), pp. 54-79

• Tamar Gutner, “Explaining the Gaps between Mandate and Performance: Agency Theory and World Bank Environmental Reform”, Global Environmental Politics Vol. 5 No. 2, 2005, p. 10-37

• Ngaire Woods, From Intervention to Cooperation: Reforming the IMF and the World Bank (London: Progressive Governance, 2008)

• Dani Rodrik, “How to Save Globalization from its Cheerleaders July 2007” Working paper, Kennedy School of Government, link: http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~drodrik/Saving%20globalization.pdf Also published as “Saving Globalization from its Cheerleaders,” Journal of International Trade and Diplomacy, Vol. 1 No. 2, Fall 2007.

• Christopher Daase and Cornelius Friesendorf, Rethinking Security Governance: The Problem of Unintended Consequences, (London: Routledge, 2007), Chapter 1