Seminar in International Organizations Spring 2016

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1 Seminar in International Organizations Spring 2016 M.A. Program of Department of Diplomacy & International Master s Program in International Studies National Chengchi University Taipei, Taiwan, Rep. of China (ROC) Class meets on Fridays; 2:10pm 5:00pm Classroom: Rm , General Building of Colleges (N. Tower) Instructor: Kwei-Bo Huang ( 黃 奎 博 ) Office: Rm , General Building of Colleges (N. Tower) Phone: (02) ext kweibohuang@gmail.com Office Hours: T.B.A. Objectives and Course Description This 3-credit, English-taught graduate seminar is a required for Diplomacy M.A. students and a selective for IMPIS students. It has dual focal points understanding from a more institutional, or practical, angle why international organizations have emerged and been functioning, as well as applying the related concepts and theories to current world affairs international governmental organizations are/were involved. Despite the fact that in recent years the majority of Diplomacy s M.A. students have considered or taken R.O.C. civil service examinations, this seminar is not aimed at helping those potential examinees prepare for those examinations, but at both practically highlighting the operation and management of major international governmental organizations and analytically introducing the contemporary issues commonly faced by these organizations. Moreover, with more in-class oral presentations definitely helpful for the development of skills in the context of various presentations, this seminar hopes to add to interactions between the instructor and the students, as well as among the students themselves. Institutionally, although the term international organizations in this seminar refers mainly to the inter-governmental organizations (IGOs), the term itself can mean ad hoc international arrangements working on regional or global governance as well. Accordingly, not only the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) can be the subjects for discussion, but important institutions or regimes such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna(CITES), the Bretton Woods system after the World War II, and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) are also possible subjects because they are highly associated with nation-states and inter-governmental activities. Limited by the number of meetings this semester, - 1 -

2 nevertheless, this seminar is unable to cover all the above-mentioned major organizations or regimes. Conceptually, the term international organizations is associated with a wide range of theoretical approaches and schools of international relations (IR). Mainstream IR theories more relevant to the study of international organizations in particular the formation and function of international organizations and some fundamental concepts evolving state sovereignty and global governance will be examined in order to enable the students to grasp better the ways contemporary international organizations have emerged and worked, as well as the complicated interactions among state and non-state actors in IGOs. The students taking this seminar will be able to learn how to carry out research projects and investigate and evaluate issues individually and collectively. Most importantly, the students should abandon the simple read-and-memorize way of learning and try to cultivate some degree of independent thinking and analytical ability. Teaching Approach The instructor will open up the introduction and discussion by raising some current affairs and/or explaining key terms/concepts related to the topic of the specific week, most of which would be covered by the required reading as well. The instructor may also show some video clips that can help broaden the scope of the students perspective and knowledge in related fields. Probably beginning from the second hour, a student group will be called to make a 20 minute presentation on the summary of the required reading, followed by class discussion (including Q&A) that can be divided into two phases. Students do not have to memorize too many details to make good answers, but they should demonstrate that they have had a preliminary understanding of and analytical thinking about the topic or organization being discussed. Therefore, for instance, the instructor will not ask questions like What are the five major periods of the EU s enlargement? but What caused the EU to expand its membership at certain critical moments of time?. Occasionally, the instructor will intervene in the class discussion if the direction or thread of discussion strays off the topic or if some important ideas need to be explored further. Requirements and Grading The students should finish required readings before coming to class to fully participate in class discussion. It is of great importance to maintain a good attendance record and participate in the class participations (discussions) proactively. Besides, the students should spontaneously check the specific international organizations webpages to find out basic and up-to-date information about their missions, structure, and so on. It is their responsibility to understand this kind of basic information beforehand, not that of the instructor, so the instructor will seldom bring up such information in class

3 In this seminar doctoral students will have to show better realization and exercise of knowledge to pass. The students must observe the semester dates of NCCU. Sick and bereavement leave is granted on the approval of the instructor, and such a request should be made by whatever possible means on the first day of absence or in advance, if possible. The instructor requires the individual who made the sick or bereavement leave to furnish medical evidence of illness or to offer other appropriate or necessary information, for example, proof of medical care of family member, death of family member, etc. Every student is required to open and maintain an NCCU E-learning account ( to find the course link). Grading will be based on the following elements: 1. Attendance and participation: 40%. In addition to class attendance (10%) and active participation (30%), students will be grouped as class discussion leaders for each designated week. Each group consists of approximately 3 students, to be determined on the second or third week. The group s duties are: (1) preparing an reading summary (up to 8 pages based on all required reading materials in that week); (2) making a 15-to-20-minute presentation on the summary and reflections; (3) leading the ensuing class discussion. The summary must be disseminated to the instructor and their classmates via 48 hours prior to class. 2. Individual Article Review: 25%. Single spaced, 1-inch (2.54 cm) margins, 12-point Times New Roman, and up to 3 pages (excluding the title, author, and other relevant information of the chosen article). In the third week or so, the instructor will choose for each student an article that is principally related to the study of international organizations. The student need to summarize the article briefly, indicate the research question(s), examine the cohesion of theory or empirical evidence (if any), and identify strengths and limitations in this article. The individual article review is due on, at the beginning of the class; meanwhile, everyone s article review should be posted to the NCCU E-leaning system with the subject headline: [IO] Article Review your name on the day of submission. 3. Comments on (Your Classmate s) Individual Article Review: 10%. Comment on the article review written by your classmate whose class order number on the student list is before you (the instructor will make an announcement after the drop/add week). This assignment is due on and should be posted to the NCCU E-learning system, with the subject headline: [IO] Article Review Feedback your name on the review author s name, before class meets. 4. English Oral Presentation: 15%. Choose a contemporary issue or problem in an international organization, either governmental or non-governmental, introduce the organization in brief, specify the issue or problem, indicate potential solutions to it, as well as why these solutions may work. Students need to secure the instructor s approval of their intended topics by sending a short to the instructor no later than April 1. Those who fail to send such s to the instructor by the deadline will be asked to - 3 -

4 submit a 3-to-4-page report on their oral presentation by May 27, or they will earn at most 50 points out of 100 on this assignment. 5. Class Quiz: 10% Between Week 4 and Week 12, a quiz will be given to make sure that the students do prepare before coming to class. It will include some blank-filling questions and maybe 2 short answer questions, and its scope covers the required reading materials of that specific week and those in the previous week. Recommended Books -- Darren G. Hawkins, et. al., eds., Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). --Stephan D. Krasner, ed., International Regimes (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1983). -- Lisa Martin and Beth Simmons, eds., International Institutions: An International Organization Reader (Boston: MIT Press, 2001). Schedule of Topics and Reading Week 1 (2/26) Course Administration, Paper Requirements, and Introduction to Contemporary IO Study -- Friedrich Kratochwil and John Gerald Ruggie, International Organization: A State of the Art on an Art of the State, International Organization 40:4 (Autumn 1986), Week 2 (3/04) Understanding More about International Organizations -- Robert O. Keohane, International Institutions: Two Approaches, International Studies Quarterly 32:4 (December 1988), John J. Mearsheimer, The False Promise of International Institutions, International Security 19:3 (Winter 1994), Robert Keohane and Lisa L. Martin, The Promise of Institutionalist Theory, International Security 20:1 (Summer 1995), Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal, Why States Act Through Formal International Organizations, Journal of Conflict Resolution 42:1 (February 1998), Week 3 (3/11) International Organizations and Sovereignty under Anarchy [Group 1] -- Robert O. Keohane, Hobbe s Dilemma and Institutional Change in World Politics: Sovereignty in International Society, in Robert O. Keohane, ed., Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (New York: Routledge, 2002), pp Stephen D. Krasner, Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp Scott Cooper, et. al., Yielding Sovereignty to International Institutions: Bringing System Structure Back In, International Studies Review 10 (2008): James N. Rosenau, Sovereignty in a Turbulent World, in Michael Mastanduno and Gene Lyons, eds., Beyond Westphalia? State Sovereignty and International Intervention (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), pp [To further study this topic, please refer to Janice E. Thomson, State - 4 -

5 Sovereignty in International Relations: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Empirical Research, International Studies Quarterly 39:2 (June 1995), ; and Athena Debbie Efraim, Sovereign (In)equality in International Organizations (The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 2000), pp & ] Week 4 (3/18) International Regime [Group 2] -- Oran R. Young, International Regimes: Toward a New Theory of Institutions, World Politics 39:1 (October 1986), Stephan Haggard and Beth A. Simmons, Theories of International Regimes, International Organization 41:3 (Summer 1987), Andreas Hasenclever, Peter Mayer, and Volker Rittberger, Interests, Power, Knowledge: The Study of International Regimes, Mershon International Studies Review 40, Supplement 2 (October 1996), Karen J. Alter and Sophie Meunier, The Politics of International Regime Complexity, Perspective on Politics 7:1 (May 2009), [For a classic on international regime, see Stephen D. Krasner, ed., International Regimes (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1983.)] Week 5 (3/25) Global Governance [Group 3] -- James N. Rosenau, Governance, Order, and Change in World Politics, in James N. Rosenau & Ernst-Otto Czempiel, ed., Governance without Government: Order and Change in World Politics (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp David A. Lake, Rightful Rules: Authority, Order, and the Foundations of Global Governance, International Studies Quarterly 54:3 (September 2010), Craig N. Murphy, Global Governance: Poorly Done and Poorly Understood, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs) 76:4 (October 2000), Weeks 6 (4/01) The United Nations [Group 4] -- Michael Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis, International Peacebuilding: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis, American Political Science Review 94:4 (December 2000), Ilyana Kuziemko and Eric Werker, How Much Is a Seat on the Security Council Worth? Foreign Aid and Bribery at the United Nations, Journal of Political Economy 114:5 (October 2006), Week7 (4/08) Reform of the United Nations [Group 5] -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, Security, Solidarity, and Sovereignty: The Grand Themes of UN Reform, American Journal of International Law 99:3 (July 2005), Thomas G. Weiss, Overcoming the Security Council Reform Impasse: The Implausible versus the Plausible, Occasional Paper No. 14 (January 2005), the Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations (New York: Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations), Edward Luck, How not to Reform the United Nations, Global Governance 11:4 (October-December 2005), Ralph Wilde, ed., United Nations Reform Through Practice: Report of the International Law Association Study Group on United Nations Reform - 5 -

6 (December 2011), pp. 7-18, & Week 8 (4/15) Interventions of IGOs in International Security [Group 6] -- Mona Fixdal and Dan Smith, Humanitarian Intervention and Just War, Mershon International Studies Review 42:2 (November 1998), Karen A. Mingst and Margaret P. Karns, The United Nations and Conflict Management: Relevant or Irrelevant? in Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, ed., Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2007), pp Michael Lipson, Peacekeeping: Organized Hypocrisy? European Journal of International Relations 13:1 (2007), Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock, R2P: A New and Unfinished Agenda, Global Responsibility to Protect 1:1 (February 2009), Week 9 (4/22) Mid-term Examination Week [Film] Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire In 100 days - between April 6 and July 16, an estimated 800,000 men, women and children were brutally killed in the obscure African country of Rwanda. The victims - many horrifically hacked to death with machetes - were Tutsi, and moderate Hutus who supported them. One man was tasked by the United Nations with ensuring that peace was maintained in Rwanda - Canadian Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire. But unsupported by U.N. headquarters and its Security Council far away in New York, Dallaire and his handful of soldiers were incapable of stopping the genocide. After ten years of mental torture, reliving the horrors daily and more than once attempting suicide, Roméo Dallaire has poured out his soul in an extraordinary book. Shake Hands With The Devil is a cri de coeur. The General pulls no punches in his condemnation of top UN officials, expedient Belgian policy makers and senior members of the Clinton administration who chose to do nothing as Dallaire pleaded for reinforcements and revised rules of engagement. See: Week 10 (4/29) Legitimacy of International Governmental Organizations [Group 7] Individual Article Review Due -- Jan Klabbers, The Changing Image of International Organizations, in Jean-Marc Coicaud and Veijo Aulis Heiskanen, eds., The Legitimacy of International Organizations (New York: United Nations University Press, 2001), pp Allen Buchanan and Robert Keohane, The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions, Ethics and International Affairs 20:4 (December 2006): Thomas Christiano, Democratic Legitimacy and International Institutions, in Samantha Besson and John Tasioulas, eds., The Philosophy of International Law (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp Robert Z. Lawrence, International Organisations: The Challenge of Aligning Mission, Means and Legitimacy, World Economy 31:11 (November 2008): Stefan Talmon, The Security Council as World Legislature, The American - 6 -

7 Journal of International Law 99:1 (January 2005), Week 11 (5/06) The Principal-agent Issue in International Organizations [Group 8] -- Darren G. Hawkins, et. al., eds., Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006): Ch. 7 How Agents Matter ; and Ch. 8 Screening Power International Organizations as Informative Agents. -- Manfred Elsig, Principal-agent Theory and the World Trade Organization: Complex Agency and Missing Delegation, European Journal of International Relations 17:3 (September 2010), Mark S. Copelovitch, Master or Servant? Common Agency and the Political Economy of IMF Lending, International Studies Quarterly 54:1 (March 2010), Week 12 (5/13) More Perspectives on the Development of IOs [Group 9] -- Guilio Gallarotti, The Limits of International Organization: Systematic Failure in the Management of International Relations, International Organization 45:2 (Spring 1991), Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations, International Organization 53:4 (Autumn 1999), Chadwick Alger, The Emerging Roles of NGOs in the UN System: From Article 71 to a People s Millennium Assembly, Global Governance 8:1 (January- March 2002), Emilie Hafner-Burton, Jana von Stein, and Erik Gartzke, International Organizations Count, Journal of Conflict Resolution 52:2 (April 2008), Week 13 (5/20) Week 14 (5/27) Week 15 (6/03) Week 16 (6/10) Week 17 (6/17) Week 18 (6/23) NCCU Anniversary and Sports Day Adjusted Day Off Final Examination Week - 7 -