Instructor: Wendy Webber
Office: 1337 Social Sciences Bldg.
Phone: 625-9397
Email: wawever@hotmail.com
Office Hours: 1:00 - 2:00 T, Th (or by appointment)
Teaching Assistant
Amit Ron
Office Hours: Tu, Th 12-13, or by appointment.
Office: 1273 Social Sciences Building.
Telephone: 624-2031
E-Mail: AMITR@POLISCI.UMN.EDU
Location: BlegH 110
Time: 2:15 - 3:30 T, Th
Course Description
This course is about the ideas, institutions, practices, and processes through which global politics are organized. It has three broad objectives. First, the course provides students with an overview of the structures and dynamics of global governance in the late-twentieth century. Second, it raises issues related to power and justice in the contemporary world order. Third, it focuses on the effects of >globalization= on the nature of world order and global governance. In terms of its structure, the course is divided into five main parts. The first part introduces students to the study of global governance, drawing attention to the distinction between traditional and critical approaches. The second part of the course considers the nature of the contemporary world order. The third, fourth, and fifth parts of the course explore the three dimensions of global governanceCthe security dimension, the legal-normative dimension, and the economic dimensionCand include sessions on topics such as international sanctions, humanitarian intervention, human rights, international law, globalization, and development.
Course Requirements
Despite its size, this is intended to be a seminar, not a lecture course. Therefore, the single most important requirement is that students come to class having read and thought about the assigned material.
To guide you in your reading, consider the following questions: What is the main point of the article? What are the underlying assumptions? What are the normative and political implications of the argument and its assumptions? What are some possible counter-arguments? In what ways has the article changed your thinking?
Students should also be reading a quality national or international newspaper in order to keep up with current events and developments in global politics.
Most class sessions will begin with a discussion of relevant developments in global politics. Following this, we will discuss the assigned material. All students are expected to participate actively in class discussions. You will be graded on your participation.
In addition to class participation, there will be two written assignments, a mid-term exam, and a final exam.
First Written Assignment: The first written assignment will be a web-based research project on the International Criminal Court (ICC). For this assignment, you are expected to use the internet to research the evolution of the ICC and to write a short paper based on your research. Your paper should be approximately 5-7 pages in length (double-spaced) and should include: (a) a short history of the court and the process through which it was created; (b) a discussion of the arguments for and against the creation of the court, including the arguments made by the United States government; and (c) an evaluation of the court as it was finally constituted. It is due on Thursday, November 18.
Second Written Assignment: The second written assignment will be an essay on a topic of your choice. Please note that you must discuss your topic with me before you begin your research. This essay is intended to give students an opportunity both to reflect on and to go beyond material covered in class. It should be approximately 12-15 pages in length (double-spaced) and is due on Thursday, December 9.
Mid-term Exam: The mid-term exam will be an in-class exam on Tuesday, October 26. It will focus on parts one, two and three of the course. It will include both short answer and essay questions.
Final Exam: The final exam will be an in-class exam on Tuesday, December 14. Like the mid-term, it will include both short answer and essay questions. The content of the final exam will be discussed in class on or before the last day of classes.
* Please note that make-up exams will only be offered in exceptional circumstances (for example, serious illness or personal emergency). Students requiring a make-up exam should, if at all possible, notify me before the regular exam is administered.
* Please also note that late papers will be docked one letter grade.
Grades for the course will be calculated as follows:
Class Participation............................................15%
Web-based Research Project............................15%
Essay.................................................................25%
Mid-term Exam.................................................20%
Final Exam........................................................25%
Required Texts
There is one book assigned for this course:
Weiss, Thomas G., David P. Forsyth, and Roger A. Coate. The United Nations and Changing World Politics, Second Edition. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997.
In addition to this book, there are also a number of articles that have been assigned. These articles are all available on reserve in the Wilson Library.
Schedule of Discussions
Tuesday, September 7
Introduction and Overview of the Course
Part One
Global Governance: The Subject and its Study
Thursday, September 9
What is 'Global Governance'?
Readings:
James N. Rosenau, "Governance in the Twenty-first Century," Global Governance 1, 1 (1995): 13-43.
Lawrence Finkelstein, "What is Global Governance?" Global Governance 1, 3 (1995): 367-372.
Tuesday, September 14
The Study of Global Governance: Traditional and Critical Approaches
Readings:
W. Andy Knight and Michel Fortmann, "Evolving Multilateralism: From Traditional to Critical Approaches," Occasional Paper.
Robert W. Cox, "An Alternative Approach to Multilateralism for the Twenty-first Century," Global Governance 3, 1 (1997): 103-116.
Thursday, September 16
Changing Patterns of Order and Governance
Readings:
John Agnew, "The Three Ages of Geopolitics" in Geopolitics: Revisioning World Politics (London: Routledge, 1998): 86-124.
Tuesday, September 21
The Search for 'Humane Governance'
Readings:
Richard Falk, "Introduction" and "From Geopolitics to Humane Governance: A Necessary Journey" in On Humane Governance: Toward a New Global Politics (Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995): 1-46.
Part Two
Foundations of Global Governance: The Contemporary World Order
Thursday, September 23
The State in the Context of Globalization
Readings:
Alexander Murphy, "The Sovereign State System as Politico-Territorial Ideal: Historical and Contemporary Consideration" in Thomas J. Biersteker and Cynthia Weber, eds., State Sovereignty as Social Construct (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996): 81-120.
Anthony McGrew, "The Globalisation Debate: Putting the Advanced Capitalist State in its Place" Global Society 12, 3 (1998): 299-321.
Tuesday, September 28
Regional Governance Structures
Readings:
James H. Mittelman, "Rethinking 'The New Regionalism' in the Context of Globalization" Global Governance 2, 2 (1996): 189-213.
James Anderson and James Goodman, "Regions, States and the European Union: Modernist Reaction or Postmodern Adaptation" Review of International Political Economy 2, 4 (1995): 600-631.
Thursday, September 30
The United Nations Organization
Readings:
Chadwick F. Alger, "Thinking About the Future of the UN System" Global Governance 2, 3 (1996): 335-360.
Bruce Russett, Barry O'Neill, and James Sutterlin, "Breaking the Security Council Restructuring Logjam" Global Governance 2, 1 (1996): 65-80.
See also the site at: http://www.un.org/
Tuesday, October 5
Global Civil Society and the 'New Multilateralism'
Readings:
Mary Kaldor, "Transnational civil society," in Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler, eds., Human Rights in Global Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999): 195-213.
Mustapha Kamal Pasha and David L. Blaney, "Elusive Paradise: The Promise and Peril of Global Civil Society," Alternatives 23 (1998): 417-450.
P. J. Simmons, "Learning to Live with NGOs," Foreign Policy 112 (Fall 1998): 82-96.
Part Three
The Security Dimension of Global Governance
Thursday, October 7
UN Collective Security: Theory and Practice
Readings:
Weiss, Forsythe and Coate, The United Nations and Changing World Politics, Chapters 1-4.
Tuesday, October 12
A Continuing Role for NATO?
Readings:
Joseph Lepgold, "NATO's Post-Cold War Conflict Management Role," in Joseph Lepgold and Thomas G. Weiss, eds., Collective Conflict Management and Changing World Politics (Albany, NY: Suny, 1998): 57-81.
TBA
See also the site at: http://www.nato.int/
Thursday, October 14
The Non-Proliferation Regime
Readings:
George Perkovich, "Nuclear Proliferation," Foreign Policy (Fall 1998): 12-23.
David Mutimer, "Reconstituting Security? The Practices of Proliferation Control," European Journal of International Relations 4, 1 (1998): 99-129.
Tuesday, October 19
International Sanctions as a Tool of Global Governance
Readings:
Kim Richard Nossal, "International Sanctions as Instruments of Global Governance," Global Society 13, 2 (1999): 125-137.
Lori Buck, Nicole Gallant and Kim Richard Nossal, "Sanctions as a gendered instrument of statecraft: the case of Iraq," Review of International Studies 24, (1998): 69-84.
See also the site at: http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/
Thursday, October 21
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Readings:
Richard Price, "Reversing the Gun Sights: Transnational Civil Society Targets Land Mines," International Organization 52, 3 (1998): 613-644.
Michael Dolan and Chris Hunt, "Negotiating in the Ottawa Process: The New Multilateralism," in Maxwell A. Cameron, Robert J. Lawson, and Brian W. Tomlin, eds., To Walk Without Fear: The Global Movement to Ban Landmines (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998): 392-423.
Tuesday, October 26
Mid-Term Exam
Part Four
Human Rights and the Legal-Normative Dimension of Global Governance
Thursday, October 28
International Law and Human Rights in the Late-Twentieth Century
Readings:
David Armstrong, "Law, Justice and the Idea of a World Society," International Affairs 75, 3 (1999): 547-561.
Jack Donnelly, "Human Rights: A New Standard of Civilization?" International Affairs 74, 1 (1998): 1-24.
Hilary Charlesworth, "Human Rights as Men's Rights," in Women's Rights/Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 1995): 103-113.
See also the sites at: http://www.hrw.org and http://www.amnesty.org
Tuesday, November 2
Promoting Human Rights: The Role of the United Nations
Readings:
Weiss, Forsyth and Coate, The United Nations and Changing World Politics, Chapters 5, 6 and 7.
Thursday, November 4
Humanitarian Access and Intervention
Readings:
Kurt Mills, "Humanitarian Access and Intervention," in Human Rights in the Emerging Global Order (London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 1998): 126-165.
Catherine Guicherd, "International Law and the War in Kosovo," Survival 41, 2 (1999): 19-34.
Tuesday, November 9
The Rwandan Genocide and the Failure of the New Humanitarianism
Readings:
Philip Gourevitch, "The Genocide Fax," The New Yorker, 11 May 1998.
In-Class Video: "The Triumph of Evil."
Thursday, November 11
Humanitarian Law or the Law of Armed Conflict
Readings:
Chris De Jochnick and Roger Normand, "The Legitimation of Violence: A Critical History of the Laws of War," Harvard International Law Review 35, 1 (1994).
Liz Philipose, "Laws of War and Women's Human Rights," Hypatia 11, 4 (1996): 46-62.
Tuesday, November 16
Prosecuting War Crimes
Readings:
Christopher Greenwood, "The International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia," International Affairs 69, 4 (1993): 641-655.
Theodor Meron, "Answering for War Crimes: Lessons from the Balkans," Foreign Affairs (1997): 2-8.
Geoffrey Hawthorn, "Pinochet: The Politics," International Affairs 75, 2 (1999): 253-258.
See also the site at: http://www.un.org/icty
Thursday, November 18
The International Criminal Court (Internet Research Projects Due Today)
Readings:
Fanny Benedetti and John L. Washburn, "Drafting the International Court Treaty: Two Years to Rome and an Afterward on the Rome Diplomatic Conference," Global Governance 5, 1 (1999): 1-37.
See also the site at: http://www.un.org/icc
Part Five
The Economic Dimension of Global Governance
Tuesday, November 23
Governing the World Economy
Readings:
Barry Axford, "The World Economy," in The Global System: Economics, Politics and Culture (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995): 94-122.
Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson, "Economic Governance Issues in General," in Globalization in Question (Blackwell: Oxford, 1996): 121-151.
Stephen Gill, "Globalisation, Market Civilisation, and Disciplinary Neoliberalism," Millennium 24, 3 (1995): 399-422.
Thursday, November 25
Thanksgiving (No Class)
Tuesday, November 30
Global Governance and the New Political Conditionality
Readings:
Peter Uvin and Isabelle Biagiotti, "Global Governance and the 'New' Political Conditionality," Global Governance 2, 3 (1996): 377-400.
TBA
Thursday, December 2
The United Nations and Human Development
Readings:
Weiss, Forsythe and Coate, The United Nations and Changing World Politics, Chapters 8, 9 and 10.
See also the site at: http://www.undp.org
Tuesday, December 7
The Global Financial System: Crisis and Reform
Readings:
Robert Wade, "The Fight Over Capital Flows," Foreign Policy 113 (Winter 1998-99): 41-54.
George Soros, "Capitalism's Last Chance?" Foreign Policy 113 (Winter 1998-99): 55-66.
Claude Smadja, "The End of Complacency," Foreign Policy 113 (Winter 1998-99): 67-71.
Thursday, December 9
Globalization, Democracy and Resistance (Essays Due Today)
Readings:
Richard Falk, "Resisting 'Globalisation-from-above' through 'Globalization-from-below'," New Political Economy 2, 1 (1997): 17-24.
Stephen J. Kobrin, "The MAI and the Clash of Globalizations," Foreign Policy (Fall 1998): 97-109.
Tuesday, December 14
Final Exam
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