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PO5032
– International Organisation (10
February 2003 – 09 May 2003) |
Instructor: Dr. Esref AKSU
Office: B2-026
Tel. ext.: 4229
Office hours: Wednesdays,
10:00-12:00 (or by appointment)
Seminar days / times: Tuesdays
(10:00-13:00)
Seminar venue: C0-070
Rationale:
Unlike its
undergraduate counterpart PO4027, this module is more a theory-oriented account
of the process of international organisation than a historical and
analytical study of formal international organisations. The focus here is on
whether, how and to what extent international actors (mainly, but not only
states) are ‘organised’ and on the theoretical and practical implications of
such organisation.
Seminars:
The module
will be taught in three-hour block seminars. Both attendance and active participation are strongly
encouraged and will be taken into account in the final assessment. Students are
not required to be immediate ‘experts’ in the field, and therefore should not
hold back for participating because they feel that they ‘do not understand an
area’, or have only a limited knowledge. It is worth remembering that in all
social sciences we are not dealing in absolutes; so it is difficult to be
totally ‘wrong’ as such. However, approaches or arguments can be weak or
unsubstantiated. If they are, it is better to clarify before the student writes
his / her end-of-semester paper. Seminars are intended to be a forum for
discussion and sharing of information and views. This does not in any
circumstances mean that you have to agree with everything that the paper giver
and instructor have to say – indeed it is often more interesting and
academically stimulating if you do not. However, please avoid being overly
aggressive about challenging people or defending your views, as this may
intimidate others and is not conducive to promoting wider seminar discussion.
Readings:
There are
no set texts for this postgraduate module. Students are expected to read a
number of relevant texts to familiarise themselves with the area, and to
contribute to the discussion on the topic and the seminar papers given. While
this course outline lists a number of suggested readings for each topic,
students are not restricted just to items on the reading lists. Indeed, they
are actively encouraged to seek additional information on the topic from other
sources. The number of suggested readings is kept to a minimum, but there is
plenty of valuable material in library stacks.
Assessment:
Students will be assessed on the basis of their:
a) Attendance (10%)
b) Participation (10%)
c) Presentation (20%)
d) Presentation Paper (10%)
e) End-of-Semester Paper (50%)
a) Attendance:
Each week that you attend the class (excluding Week 1) will bring you 1 point. Mere attendance in class can bring you up to 10 points (which correspond to 10% of the maximum possible score, i.e. 100).
b) Participation:
Active and informed participation in seminars can bring you up to 10 points. Remember: poor attendance will almost automatically have a negative impact on your participation score as well.
c) Presentation:
Each student is required to make a presentation which will make up 20% of his / her assessment for the module. The topic / question will be chosen from the list given in this course outline. The presentation should be between 15 and 45 minutes. It is the quality of the substance that will be assessed, not the stylistic components (e.g. whether or not overheads, powerpoint or other teaching aids are utilised). It is compulsory for the student to attend on the date that she/he is delivering a seminar paper.
d) Presentation Paper:
Each student will be required to submit a seminar paper on the day of his / her presentation (late submissions will be penalised). The paper should be no more than 1000 words and should give the synopsis of the presentation.
e) End-of-semester Paper:
Students are required to write a substantial research paper which will make up 50% of their final assessment for the module. Detailed information about the paper will be provided in the early semester.
Grades:
A final grade combining all components of assessment will be posted to you in June. Grades will not be given out beforehand by the lecturer.
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Seminar
1 (Tuesday, 11 February 2003) |
Topic: International organisation: an introduction
Suggested Readings:
- Archer, Clive, International Organizations, 2nd edn, (London: Routledge, 1992).
- Barnett, Michael N. and Martha Finnemore, ‘The politics, power, and pathologies of international organizations”, International Organization, vol. 53, no. 4 (October 1999).
- Bennett, A. LeRoy, International Organisations: Principles and Issues, 6th edn, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995), pp. 1-23
- Imber, Mark, ‘International organisations’, in John Baylis and Nicholas J. Rengger (eds), Dilemmas of World Politics: International Issues in a Changing World, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), pp. 174-202
- Katzenstein, Peter J., Robert O. Keohane and Stephen D. Krasner, ‘International Organization and the study of world politics”, International Organization 52 (1998), 645-86.
- Keohane, Robert O., ‘International institutions: two approaches”, International Studies Quarterly 32 (1988), 379-96.
- Martin, Lisa L. and Beth Simmons, ‘Theories and empirical studies of
international institutions”, International
Organization 52 (1998), 729-58.
- Murphy, Craig N., International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance since 1850, (Cambridge: Polity, 1994).
- Taylor, Paul, ‘A conceptual typology of international organisation’ in A. J. R. Groom and Paul Taylor (eds), Frameworks for International Cooperation, (London: Pinter, 1990).
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Seminar
2 (Tuesday, 18 February 2003) |
Topic: Historical roots of modern international
organisation
Presentation Topics / Questions:
P1 – How would you characterise the evolution of international organisation between the Congress of Vienna (1815) and the League of Nations (1918)?
P2 – What are the main features of the League of Nations era so far as the theory and practice of international organisation are concerned?
Suggested Readings:
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Armstrong, David, Lorna Lloyd and John Redmond, From Versailles to Maastricht: International Organisation in the
Twentieth Century, (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1996), chs 1, 2.
- Carr,
Edward H., The Twenty Years’ Crisis,
1919-1939, 2nd edn, (London: Macmillan, 1946).
- Cavallar, Georg, Kant and the Theory and Practice of International Right, (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999), ch. 8.
- Claude
Jr., Inis L., Swords into Plowshares: the
Problems and Progress of International Organization, 4th edn,
(NY: Random House, 1984), chs 2, 3.
- History of International Committee of the Red Cross; available online at:
<http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1917/red-cross-history.html> (January 2003).
- History of Permanent International Peace Bureau; available online at:
<http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1910/peace-bureau-history.html#not_*> (January 2003).
- Kant, Immanuel, ‘Perpetual Peace’ [1795] in Immanuel Kant, Political Writings, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Excerpts from ‘Perpetual Peace’ are also available online
at: <http://socsci.colorado.edu/~parisr/PS4173/Kant.htm>
(January 2003).
- [The] League of Nations, Covenant of; available online at:
<http://www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/multi/texts/historical/LEAGUE-COVENANT.txt> (January 2003).
- Long, David and Peter Wilson (eds), Thinkers of the Twenty Years’ Crisis, Inter-War Idealism Reassessed, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
- Lowe, John, The Concert of Europe: International Relations, 1814-70, (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991).
- Murphy, Craig N., International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance since 1850, (Cambridge: Polity, 1994), chs 1–5.
- Nicholson, Harold, The Congress of Vienna, (London: Methuen & Co., 1970).
- Northedge, Frederick S., The League of Nations: Its Life and Times 1920-1946, (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1986).
- Scott, George, The Rise and Fall of the League of Nations, (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1973).
- U.S. Senate, Debate on the League of Nations, 1919; available online at:
<http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/interwar.htm> (January 2003).
- Walters, F. P., A History of the League of Nations, (London: Oxford University Press, 1969).
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Seminar
3 (Tuesday, 25 February 2003) |
Topic: Levels and modes of international
organisation
Presentation Topics / Questions:
P3 – Conceptualising ‘levels’ of international organisation: regional, cross-regional, global processes and actors
P4 – Conceptualising ‘modes’ of international organisation: inter-national, trans-national, supra-national processes and actors
Suggested Readings:
- Archer, Clive, International Organizations, 2nd edn, (London: Routledge, 1992), ch. 2.
- Bennett, A. LeRoy, International Organisations: Principles and Issues, 6th edn, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995), ch. 11.
- Feld, Werner J. and Robert S. Jordan, International Organizations: A Comparative Approach, 3rd edn, (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994), ch. 1.
- Groom, A. J. R., ‘The Commonwealth: a bond that held’, in Paul Taylor and A. J. R. Groom (eds), International Institutions at Work, (London: Pinter, 1988), pp. 184-90.
- Huntington, Samuel P., ‘Transnational organizations in world politics’, in Richard Little and Michael Smith (eds), Perspectives in World Politics, 2nd edn, (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 212-28.
- Keohane, Robert O. and Joseph S. Nye, ‘Transgovernmental relations and international organizations’, World Politics 27 (1974); also available in Richard Little and Michael Smith (eds), Perspectives in World Politics, 2nd edn, (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 229-41.
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Risse-Kappen, Thomas, Bringing
Transnational Relations Back In: Non-State Actors, Domestic Structures, and
International Institutions, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
- Rosenau, James N., The Study of Global Interdependence: Essays on the Transnationalization of World Affairs (1980).
- Sunkel, Osvaldo and Edmundo F. Fuenzalida, ‘Transnationalism and its national consequences’, in Richard Little and Michael Smith (eds), Perspectives in World Politics, 2nd edn, (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 325-38.
- Willetts, Peter, ‘Transnational actors and international organizations in global politics’, in John Baylis and Steve Smith (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 287-310.
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Seminar
4 (Tuesday, 4 March 2003) |
Topic: Instruments of international organisation
Presentation Topics / Questions:
P5 – International organisation through diplomacy
P6 – The relationship between international organisation and international law
Suggested Readings:
- Abi-Saab, Georges, ‘The international law of multinational corporations: a critique of American legal doctrines’, in Frederick E. Snyder and Surakiart Sathirathai (eds), Third World Attitudes toward International Law: An Introduction, (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987), pp. 549-76.
- Bowett, D. W., The Law of International Institutions, 4th edn, (London: Stevens & Sons, 1982), Part 4.
- Boyle, Francis A., World Politics and International Law, (Durham: Duke University Press, 1985), especially Part 3 in relation to US foreign policy.
- Brownlie, Ian, Principles of Public International Law, 4th edn, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), ch. 30.
- Cassese, Antonio, International Law in a Divided World, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), especially chs 4, 6, 7 and Epilogue.
- Chalmers, Damian, ‘The legal dimension in EU integration’, in Ali M. El-Agraa (ed.), The European Union: Economics and Policies, 6th edn, (Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2001), pp. 49-71.
- Diamond, Louise and John McDonald, Multi-track Diplomacy: A Systems Approach to Peace, 3rd edn, (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1996).
- do Nascimento e Silva, G. E., Diplomacy in International Law, (Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff, 1972).
- Jennings, Robert and Arthur Watts (eds), Oppenheim’s International Law, 9th edn, vol. 1, (London: Longman, 1996), especially chs 13, 14.
- Levi, Werner, Law and Politics in the International Society, (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1976).
- Likosky, Michael (ed.), Transnational Legal Processes: Globalisation and Power Disparities, (London: Butterworths, 2002).
- Murty, B. S., The International Law of Diplomacy: The Diplomatic Instrument and World Public Order, (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1989).
- Shaw, Malcolm N., International Law, 3rd edn, (Cambridge: Grotius Publications, 1991), ch. 19.
- Shearer, I. Anthony, Starke’s International Law, 11th edn, (London: Buttersworth, 1994), chs 15, 20.
- Siqueiros, Jose Luis, ‘The juridical regulation of transnational enterprises’, in Frederick E. Snyder and Surakiart Sathirathai (eds), Third World Attitudes toward International Law: An Introduction, (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987), pp. 577-94.
- Watson, Adam, ‘Diplomacy’, in John Baylis and Nicholas J. Rengger (eds), Dilemmas of World Politics: International Issues, in a Changing World, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), pp. 159-73.
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Seminar
5 (Tuesday, 11 March 2003) |
Topic: Key concepts: supranationalism and
integration
Presentation Topics / Questions:
P7 – Is there any difference between supranationalism and integration?
P8 – What is the difference between functionalism and neofunctionalism?
Suggested Readings:
- Ashworth, Lucian and David Long (eds), New Perspectives on International Functionalism, (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1998)
- Claude
Jr., Inis L., Swords into Plowshares: the
Problems and Progress of International Organization, 4th edn,
(NY: Random House, 1984), ch. 17.
- Dehousse,
Renaud, The European Court of Justice,
(Houndmills: Macmillan, 1998), ch. 3.
- Deutsch, Karl W., Political Community and the North Atlantic Area: International Organization in the Light of Historical Experience [1957], (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1969).
- Deutsch, Karl W., The Analysis of International Relations, 3rd edn, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988), ch. 16.
- El-Agraa, Ali M. (ed.), The European Union: Economics and Policies, 6th edn, (Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2001), Parts 1, 2.
- George, Stephen and Ian Bache, Politics in the European Union, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), ch. 1.
- Gerber, James, International Economics, (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1999), chs 10, 12, 13, 16.
- Lindberg, Leon N. and Stuart A. Scheingold (eds), ‘Regional integration: theory and research’: special issue of International Organization (1970).
- Mitrany, David, The Functional Theory of Politics, (London: LSE, 1975).
- Molle, Willem, The Economics of European Integration: Theory, Practice, Policy, 4th edn, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), chs 2–4.
- Pelkmans, Jacques, European Integration: Methods and Economic Analysis, (NY: Longman, 1997), Parts 1, 2.
- Puchala, Donald J., ‘Of blind men, elephants and international integration’, in Richard Little and Michael Smith (eds), Perspectives in World Politics, 2nd edn, (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 250-62.
- Rosemond, Ben, Theories of European Integration, (Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000), chs 1–3.
- Taylor, Paul, ‘Functionalism: the approach of David Mitrany’, in A. J. R. Groom and Paul Taylor (eds), Frameworks for International Cooperation, (London: Pinter, 1990).
- Tsebelis, George and Geffrey Garrett, ‘The institutional foundations of intergovernmentalism and supranationalism in the European Union’, International Organization, vol. 55, no. 2 (Spring 2001), 357-90.
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Seminar
6 (Tuesday, 18 March 2003) |
Topic:
Key concepts: interdependence and regimes
Presentation Topics / Questions:
P9 – Exploring the idea of ‘interdependence’
P10 – The ‘regime’ theory: beyond formal international organisations?
Suggested Readings:
- Abbott, K. W. and Duncan Snidal, ‘Why states act through formal international organizations’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 42, no. 1, (February 1998), pp. 3-32; also available in Paul F. Diehl (ed.), The Politics of Global Governance: International Organizations in an Interdependent World, 2nd edn, (Boulder, CO; Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001).
- Brzosak, Michael, ‘Is the nuclear non-proliferation system a regime? A comment on Trevor McMorris Tate’, Journal of Peace Research (1992).
- Burchill, Scott, ‘Liberal internationalism’, in Scott Burchill and Andrew Linklater (eds), Theories of International Relations, (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 28-66.
- Feld, Werner J. and Robert S. Jordan, International Organizations: A Comparative Approach, 3rd edn, (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994), ch. 7.
- Garnett, John C., ‘States, state-centric perspectives, and interdependence theory’, in John Baylis and Nicholas J. Rengger (eds), Dilemmas of World Politics: International Issues, in a Changing World, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), pp. 61-84.
- Haggard, Stephan and Beth A. Simmons, ‘Theories of international regimes’, International Organization 41 (1987), pp. 491-517.
- Hopf, Ted, ‘Managing the post-Soviet security space: a continuing demand for behavioral regimes”, Security Studies, vol. 4, no. 2 (1995), pp. 242-80.
- Keohane, Robert O., After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Economy, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984).
- Keohane, Robert O., ‘Cooperation and international regimes’, in Richard Little and Michael Smith (eds), Perspectives in World Politics, 2nd edn, (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 102-114.
- Keohane, Robert O. and Lisa L. Martin, ‘The promise of
institutionalist theory”, International
Security, vol. 20, no. 1 (Summer 1995), pp. 39-51.
- Krasner, Stephen D. (ed.), International Regimes, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983).
- Krasner, Stephen D., ‘Regimes and the limits of realism: regimes as autonomous variables’, International Organization (1982).
- Kratochwil, Friedrich and John G. Ruggie, ‘International organization: a state of the art on an art of the state”, International Organization 40 (1986), pp. 753-75.
- Little, Richard, ‘International Regimes’, in John Baylis and Steve Smith (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 231-47.
- Mearsheimer, John, ‘The false promise of international institutions’, International Security 19:3 (Winter
1994/95), pp. 5-49.
- Rittberger, Volker (ed.), Regime Theory and International Relations, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).
- Ruggie, John G., ‘International regimes, transactions, and change: embedded liberalism in the postwar economic order’, International Organization (1982); also available in Stephen D. Krasner (ed.), International Regimes, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983).
- Strange, Susan, ‘Cave! Hic dragones: a critique of regime analysis’, International Organization (1982); also available in Stephen D. Krasner (ed.), International Regimes, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983).
- Tate, Trevor McMorris, ‘Regime-building in the non-proliferation system”, Journal of Peace Research (1990).
- Taylor-Gooby, Peter, ‘Eurosclerosis in European welfare states: regime theory and the dynamics of change’, Policy and Politics (1996).
- Wallace, William, ‘Less than a federation, more than a regime: the Community as a political system’ in Helen Wallace, William Wallace and Carole Webb (eds), Policy-Making in the European Community, (1983).
- Young, Oran R., ‘International regimes: toward a new theory of institutions’, World Politics 39 (1986), pp. 104-22.
- Young, Oran R., ‘Regime dynamics: the rise and fall of international regimes’, International Organization (1982).
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Seminar
7 (Tuesday, 25 March 2003) |
Topic: Key concepts: regionalisation and
globalisation
Presentation Topics / Questions:
P11 – Regionalism: necessary, feasible, useful?
P12 – Regionalisation and globalisation: contradictory, complementary, or unrelated processes?
Suggested Readings:
- Alagappa, M., ‘Regionalism and the quest for security: ASEAN and the Cambodian conflict’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 47, no. 2 (October 1993), pp. 189-209.
- Bennett, A. LeRoy, International Organisations: Principles and Issues, 6th edn, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995), ch. 10.
- Bowett, D. W., The Law of International Institutions, 4th edn, (London: Stevens & Sons, 1982), Part 2.
- Butler, Fiona, ‘Regionalism and integration’, in John Baylis and Steve Smith (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 409-28.
- Claude
Jr., Inis L., Swords into Plowshares: the
Problems and Progress of International Organization, 4th edn,
(NY: Random House, 1984), ch. 6.
- Deutsch, Karl W., The Analysis of International Relations, 3rd edn, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988), ch. 18.
- Dunning, John H. (ed.), Governments, Globalization, and International Business, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
- Gamble, Andrew and Anthony Payne (eds), Regionalism and World Order, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996).
- Gerber, James, International Economics, (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1999), ch. 10.
- Haas, Ernst B., ‘Regionalism,
functionalism and universal international organization’, World Politics, vol. 8, no. 2. (January 1956), 238-63.
- Hirst, Paul and Graeme Thompson, Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance, (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996).
- Keohane, Robert O. and Joseph S. Nye, ‘Globalization: What’s new? What’s not? (And so what?)’, Foreign Policy 118 (Spring 2000), 104-119.
- Likosky, Michael (ed.), Transnational Legal Processes: Globalisation and Power Disparities, (London: Butterworths, 2002).
- Mattli, Walter, The Logic of Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond, (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999).
- Mucchielli, Jean-Louis, Peter J. Buckley and Victor V. Cordell (eds), Globalization and Regionalization: Strategies, Policies and Economic Environments, (NY: International Business Press, 1998).
- Nye, Joseph S. Jr., ‘Comparative regional integration: concept and measurement’, International Organization 22 (1968).
- Ohmae,
Kenichi, The End of the Nation-State: The
Rise of Regional Economies, (NY: Free Press, 1995).
- Pion-Berlin, David, ‘Will soldiers follow? Economic integration and regional security in the southern cone’, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, vol. 42, no. 1 (Spring 2000).
- Ruggie,
John Gerard, ‘Multilateralism: the anatomy of an institution’, International Organization 46 (1992),
pp. 561-98.
- Smith, Michael, ‘Regions and regionalism’, in Brian White, Richard Little and Michael Smith (eds), Issues in World Politics, (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1997), pp. 69-87.
- Viviani,
Nancy, ‘Regional arrangements and democratic reform of the United Nations’ in
Albert J. Paolini, Anthony P. Jarvis and Christian Reus-Smit (eds), Between Sovereignty and Global Governance:
the United Nations, the State and Civil Society, (Houndmills: Macmillan,
1998), pp. 312-29.
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Seminar
8 (Tuesday, 8 April 2003) |
Topic: International organisation and security
Presentation Topics / Questions:
P13 – The logic and dynamics of military alliances
P14 – What is the role of modern international organisation in conflict management?
Suggested Readings:
- Berridge, G. R., Return to the UN: UN Diplomacy in Regional Conflicts, (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1991).
- Biermann, Wolfgang, ‘UN, OSCE and NATO: international division of labor in peace support operations’, in Kurt R. Spillmann et al. (eds), Peace Support Operations: Lessons Learned and Future Perspectives, (Bern: Peter Lang, 2001); available online at:
http://www.fsk.ethz.ch/documents/Studies/volume_9/biermann.htm (January 2003)
- Boutros-Ghali, Boutros, An Agenda for Peace, 2nd edn with the New Supplement and Related UN Documents, (NY: United Nations, 1995).
- Claude
Jr., Inis L., Swords into Plowshares: the
Problems and Progress of International Organization, 4th edn,
(NY: Random House, 1984), chs 11–17.
- Collester, J. Bryan, ‘How defense “spilled over” into the CFSP: Western European Union and the European Security and Defense Identity (ESDI)’, in Maria G. Cowles and Michael Smith (eds), The State of the European Union: Risks, Reform, Resistance, and Revival, vol. 5, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 369-89.
- Diehl, Paul F., International Peacekeeping, (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
- Diehl, Paul F. (ed.), The Politics of Global Governance: International Organizations in An Interdependent World, (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997), Part 4.
- Diehl, Paul F., Jennifer Reifachneider and Paul R. Hensel, ‘United Nations intervention and recurring conflict’, International Organization 50 (Autumn 1996), 683-700.
- Durch, William J. (ed.), The Evolution of UN Peacekeeping: Case Studies and Comparative Analysis, (New York: St.Martin’s Press, 1993).
- Haas, Ernst B, Conflict Management by International Organizations, (Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press, 1972).
- Hirsh, Michael, ‘Calling all regio-cops: peacekeeping’s hybrid future’, Foreign Affairs, vol. 79, no. 6 (Nov/Dec 2000).
- Mileham, Patrick, ‘But will they fight and will they die?’, International Affairs, vol. 77, no. 3 (July 2001), 621-9.
- Princen,
Thomas, Intermediaries in International
Conflict, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992), ch. 9.
- Risse-Kappen, Thomas, ‘Collective identity in a democratic community: the case of NATO’, in Peter J. Katzenstein (ed.), The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics, (New York. Columbia University Press, 1996).
- Thakur, Ramesh and Carlyle A. Thayer (eds), A Crisis of Expectations: UN Peacekeeping in the 1990s, (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1995), pp. 3-22.
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Seminar
9 (Tuesday, 15 April 2003) |
Topic: International organisation and economy
Presentation Topics / Questions:
P15 – International organisation and financial aid: toward (socio)economic (in)stability?
P16 – Trade and labour as subjects of international organisation
Suggested Readings:
- Bello, Walden, ‘The Bretton Woods Institutions and the
demise of the UN development system’, in Albert J. Paolini, Anthony P. Jarvis and Christian Reus-Smit (eds), Between Sovereignty and Global Governance:
the United Nations, the State and Civil Society, (Houndmills: Macmillan,
1998), pp. 207-27.
- Chalabi, Fadhil J., ‘OPEC: an obituary’, Foreign Policy 109 (Winter 1997-98), 126-40.
- De Burca, Grainne and Joanne Scott (eds), The EU and the WTO: Legal and Constitutional Issues, (Oxford: Hart, 2001).
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Diehl, Paul F. (ed.), The Politics of Global Governance:
International Organizations in an Interdependent World, (Boulder, CO: Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 1997), Part 5.
- Foggon, George, ‘The origin and development of the ILO and international labour organisations’, in Paul Taylor and A. J. R. Groom (eds), International Institutions at Work, (London: Pinter, 1988), pp. 96-113.
- Gerber, James, International Economics, (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1999), ch. 2.
- Gill, Stephen, ‘Structural changes in multilateralism: the G-7 nexus and the global crisis’, in Michael G. Schechter (ed.), Innovation in Multilateralism, (Tokyo: United Nations University, 1999), pp. 113-65.
- Graham, Edward M., ‘Should there be multilateral rules on foreign direct investment?’, in John H. Dunning (ed.), Governments, Globalization, and International Business, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 481-505.
- Hajnal, Peter I., The G7/G8 System: Evolution, Role and Documentation, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999).
- Hoekman, Bernard M. and Michel M. Kostecki, The Political Economy of the World Trading System: From GATT to WTO, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
- Jutte,
Rudiger and Annemarie Grosse-Jutte (eds), The
Future of International Organisation, (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1981), Part
II, especially chs 4–6.
- Krasner, Stephen D. (ed.), International Regimes, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983), pp. 195-336.
- Krueger, Anne O., ‘Whither the World Bank and the IMF?’, Journal of Economic Literature 36 (December 1998), pp. 1983-2020.
- Krugman, Paul R. and Maurice Obstfeld, International Economics: Theory and Policy, 5th edn, (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2000), ch. 18.
- Mayall, James, ‘The institutional basis of post-war economic cooperation’, in Paul Taylor and A. J. R. Groom (eds), International Institutions at Work, (London: Pinter, 1988), pp. 53-74.
- Scholte, Jan Aart, ‘Global trade and finance’, in John Baylis and Steve Smith (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 429-47.
- Verdun, Amy, ‘Monetary integration in Europe: ideas and evolution’, in Maria G. Cowles and Michael Smith (eds), The State of the European Union: Risks, Reform, Resistance, and Revival, vol. 5, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 91-109.
- Williams, Marc, International Economic Organisations and the Third World, (NY: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994).
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Seminar
10 (Tuesday, 22 April 2003) |
Topic: International organisation and the
‘traditional’ spectrum of welfare
Presentation Topics / Questions:
P17 – International organisation and functional / sectoral cooperation (e.g. navigation, aviation, postal services, telecommunication, meteorology…)
P18 – International organisation and multifaceted social cooperation (e.g. humanitarianism, food, health, refugees, religion, culture, education…)
Suggested Readings:
- Codding Jr., George A., ‘The International Telecommunication Union’, in Paul Taylor and A. J. R. Groom (eds), International Institutions at Work, (London: Pinter, 1988), pp. 167-83.
- Deacon, Bob, Global Social Policy: International Organizations and the Future of Welfare, (London: Sage, 1997).
- International Committee of the Red Cross, The Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, (Geneva: ICRC, 1994), pp. 1-22.
- Johnson, Robert H., ‘International politics and the
structure of international organization: the case of UNRRA’, World Politics, vol. 3, no. 4. (July 1951), 520-38.
- Luard, Evan, International Agencies: The Emerging Framework of Interdependence, (London: Macmillan for RIIA, 1977).
- McCoubrey, Hilaire, International
Humanitarian Law: The Regulation of Armed Conflicts, (Aldershot: Dartmouth,
1990), chs 1, 2.
- Pugh, Michael and S. Alex Cunliffe, ‘The lead agency concept in
humanitarian assistance: the case of the UNHCR’, Security Dialogue, vol. 28, no. 1 (March 1997), 17-30.
- Richards, John E., ‘Toward a positive theory of international institutions: regulating international aviation markets’, International Organization 53:1 (1999), pp. 1-38.
- Talbott, Ross B. and H. Wayne Moyer, ‘Who governs the Rome food agencies?’, in Paul F. Diehl (ed.), The Politics of Global Governance: International Organizations in An Interdependent World, (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997), pp. 269-86.
- Whitman, Jim (ed.), Peacekeeping and UN Agencies, (London: Frank Cass, 1999).
- Williams, Douglas, The Specialised Agencies and the United Nations: A System in Crisis, (London: C. Hurst & Co., 1987).
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Seminar
11 (Tuesday, 29 April 2003) |
Topic:
International organisation and relatively ‘new’ dimensions of welfare
Presentation Topics / Questions:
P19 – International organisation and human rights
P20 – International organisation and environment
Suggested Readings:
- Anaya, S. James, ‘Indigenous peoples and developments in international law: toward change through multilateralism and the modern human rights frame’, in Michael G. Schechter (ed.), Innovation in Multilateralism, (Tokyo: United Nations University, 1999), pp. 223-63.
- Bartlett, Robert V. et al. (eds), International Organizations and Environmental Policy, (Westport: CN: Greenwood Press, 1995).
- Dorsey, Ellen, ‘The global women’s movement: articulating a new vision of global governance’, in Paul F. Diehl (ed.), The Politics of Global Governance: International Organizations in An Interdependent World, (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997), pp. 335-59.
- Gaer, Felice D., ‘Reality check: human rights NGOs confront governments at the UN’, in Thomas G. Weiss and Leon Gordenker (eds), NGOs, the UN, and Global Governance, (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1996).
- Greene, Owen, ‘Environmental issues’, in John Baylis and Steve Smith (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 313-37.
- Hisschemoller, Matthijs and Joyeeta Gupta, ‘Problem-solving through international environmental agreements: the issue of regime effectiveness’, International Political Science Review 20 (1999), no. 2, pp. 151-74.
- Hurrell, Andrew and Benedict Kingsbury (eds), The International Politics of the Environment, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992).
- International Affairs (UK), vol. 77, no. 2 (2001), special issue on climate change.
- Jacobson, Harold K. and Edith B. Weiss, ‘Strengthening compliance with international environmental accords’, in Paul F. Diehl (ed.), The Politics of Global Governance: International Organizations in An Interdependent World, (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997), pp. 305-33.
- Korey, William, NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1998).
- Macdonald, R. St. J., F. Matscher and H. Petzold (eds), The European System for the Protection of Human Rights, (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1993), chs 25-27.
- OECD, Implementation of the OECD Procedural Guidelines on Trade and Environment: Results of the Second Review, (Paris: OECD Working Papers, vol. VII, no. 91, 1999)
- Paterson, Matthew, ‘Interpreting trends in global environmental governance, International Affairs (UK), vol. 75, no. 4 (October 1999), 793-802.
- Rao, P. K., Sustainable Development: Economics and Policy, (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000), ch. 10.
- Rugman, Alan M. and Julie A. Soloway, ‘Corporate strategy and NAFTA: when environmental regulations are barriers to trade’, in Jean-Louis Mucchielli, Peter J. Buckley and Victor V. Cordell (eds), Globalization and Regionalization: Strategies, Policies and Economic Environments, (NY: IBP, 1998), pp. 231-51.
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Thakur, Ramesh, ‘Human rights: Amnesty International and the United Nations’, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 31, no.
2 (1994), pp. 143-60; also available in Paul F. Diehl (ed.), The Politics of Global Governance: International Organizations in an
Interdependent World, 2nd edn, (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner
Publishers, 2001).
- Wapner, Paul, ‘Politics beyond the state: environmental activism and world civic politics’, World Politics 47 (April 1995), 311-40.
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Seminar
12 (Tuesday, 6 May 2003) |
Topic: The United Nations: a ‘system’ of special
importance
Presentation Topics / Questions:
P21 – What roles do the UN’s principal organs play in world politics?
P22 – What is so special about the wider UN ‘system’?
Suggested Readings:
- Bertrand, Maurice, ‘The role of the United Nations in the context of the changing world order”, in Yoshikazu Sakamoto (ed.), Global Transformation: Challenges to the State System, (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1994), pp. 462-74.
- Camilleri, Joseph A., ‘The UN’s place in the era of globalisation: a four-dimensional perspective’ in Albert J. Paolini, Anthony P. Jarvis and Christian Reus-Smit (eds), Between Sovereignty and Global Governance: the United Nations, the State and Civil Society, (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1998), pp. 335-50.
- Knight, W. Andy, A Changing United Nations: Multilateral Evolution and the Quest for Global Governance, (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2000).
- Mingst, Karen A. and Margaret P. Karns, The United Nations in the post-Cold War Era, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995).
- Riggs, Robert E. and Jack C. Plano, The United Nations: International Organization and World Politics, 2nd edn, (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1994).
- Taylor, Paul, ‘The United Nations and international organization’, in John Baylis and Steve Smith (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 264-85.
- Thakur, Ramesh (ed.), Past Imperfect, Future UNcertain: The United Nations at Fifty, (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1998).
- Weiss, Thomas G., David P. Forsythe and Roger A. Coate, The United Nations and Changing World Politics, 2nd edn, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997).
- Weiss, Thomas G. and Leon Gordenker (eds), NGOs, the UN, and Global Governance, (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1996).
- Whittaker, David J., United Nations in the Contemporary World, (London: Routledge, 1997).
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Presentation Topics / Questions at a Glance: |
P1 – How would you characterise the evolution of international organisation between the Congress of Vienna (1815) and the League of Nations (1918)?
P2 – What are the main features of the League of Nations era so far as the theory and practice of international organisation are concerned?
P3 – Conceptualising ‘levels’ of international organisation: regional, cross-regional, global processes and actors
P4 – Conceptualising ‘modes’ of international organisation: inter-national, trans-national, supra-national processes and actors
P5 – International organisation through diplomacy
P6 – The relationship between international organisation and international law
P7 – Is there any difference between supranationalism and integration?
P8 – What is the difference between functionalism and neofunctionalism?
P9 – Exploring the idea of ‘interdependence’
P10 – The ‘regime’ theory: beyond formal international organisations?
P11 – Regionalism: necessary, feasible, useful?
P12 – Regionalisation and globalisation: contradictory, complementary, or unrelated processes?
P13 – The logic and dynamics of military alliances
P14 – What is the role of modern international organisation in conflict management?
P15 – International organisation and financial aid: toward (socio)economic (in)stability?
P16 – Trade and labour as subjects of international organisation
P17 – International organisation and functional / sectoral cooperation (e.g. navigation, aviation, postal services, telecommunication, meteorology…)
P18 – International organisation and multifaceted social cooperation (e.g. humanitarianism, food, health, refugees, religion, culture, education…)
P19 – International organisation and human rights
P20 – International organisation and environment
P21 – What roles do the UN’s principal organs play in world politics?
P22 – What is so special about the wider UN ‘system’?