International Organizations – Theory and Practice

1. Introduction: Why do we need international organisations?

Readings:

Axelrod, R. and Keohane, R.O. (1985). Achieving cooperation under anarchy: Strategies and institutions. World Politics, 38(1), pp.226-254;

Jervis, R. (1978). Cooperation under the security dilemma. World Politics, 30(2), pp.167-214

2. Theoretical approaches to international organization(s)

Required readings:

Abbott, K.W. and Snidal, D. (1998). Why states act through formal international organizations. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 42(1), pp.3-32.

Further reading:

Barnett, M.N. and Finnemore, M. (1999). The politics, power, and pathologies of international organizations. International Organization, 53(4), pp.699-732.

Keohane, R.O. (1982). The demand for international regimes. International Organization, 36(2), pp.325-355.

Keohane, R.O. (1998). International institutions: Can interdependence work?. Foreign Policy, pp.82-194.

Koremenos, B., Lipson, C. and Snidal, D. (2001). The rational design of international institutions. International Organization, 55(4), pp.761-799.

Mearsheimer, J.J. (1994). “The false promise of international institutions”, International Security, 19(3), pp.5-49.

Wendt, A. (1992). “Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics”, International Organization, 46(2), pp.391-425

3. The League of Nations: making the of global organisation and lessons to be learned

Required Reading:

Bennett, A. LeRoy (1995), “A Great Experiment – The League of Nations” and “The Genesis of The United Nations,” in International Organizations, sixth edition, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, pp.24-55.

Claude, Inis L. (1971), “Chapter 3: The Establishment of the League of Nations” in Swords Into Plowshares, New York: Random House, pp.43-61.

Rosenau, James N. (1992), “Governance, Order, and Change in World Politics,” in James N. Rosenau and Otto Czempiel, eds., Governance Without Government, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.1-29.

Spruyt, Hendrik (1994), The Sovereign State and Its Competitors, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Karns, Margaret P., and Mingst, Karen A. (2009), International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of

Global Governance, second edition, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp. 97-144

Ziring, Lawrence, Robert E. Riggs, and Jack C. Plano (2005). The United Nations: International Organization and World Politics,Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, Chapter 1, pp. 13-21.

4. The United Nations: principles, objectives, and the organisational structure

Readings:

The Charter of the United Nations

Johnstone, I. (2003). The role of the UN secretary-general: The power of persuasion based on law. Global Governance 9(4), pp. 441-458.

Further reading:

Claude, I.L. (1966). Collective legitimization as a political function of the United Nations. International Organization, 20(3), pp.367-379.

Kuziemko, I. and Werker, E. (2006). How much is a seat on the Security Council worth? Foreign aid and bribery at the United Nations. Journal of Political Economy, 114(5), pp.905-930.

O'Neill, B. (1996). Power and satisfaction in the United Nations Security Council. Journal of Conflict Resolution 40(2): pp. 219-237

5. UN and Conflict Management

Readings:

Weiss, Thomas G., and Rorden Wilkinson (2013). International Organizations and Global Governance, Routledge, chs. 1-4.

Karns and Mingst, ch. 7.

Frederking, Brian, and Paul F. Diehl (2015). The Politics of Global Governance: International Organizations in an Interdependent World, Fifth Edition, New York; Lynne Rienner, Chapters 6, 7, 9.

Hoffmann, Stanley (1996), “The Politics and Ethics of Military Intervention,” Survival, vol. 37, no. 4 (Winter 1995-96), pp. 29-51.

Annan, Koffi (2004), “Courage to Fulfill our Responsibilities” (on report of High- Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change), The Economist, Dec. 4-10, pp. 23-25.

6. Human Rights in UN system

Readings:

Weiss et al., chs. 6-8.

Karns and Mingst, ch. 10.

Frederking and Diehl, chs. 18, 19.

Hafner-Burton, E.M. (2012). International regimes for human rights. Annual Review of Political Science 15: pp. 265-286.

Further reading:

Hathaway, O. (2002). Do human rights treaties make a difference? Yale Law Journal 111(8): pp. 1935-2042.

Helfer, L.R. (1999). Forum shopping for human rights. University of Pennsylvania Law Review,148(2): pp. 285-301.

Moravcsik, A. (2000). The origins of human rights regimes: Democratic delegation in postwar, Europe. International Organization 54(2): pp. 217–52.

Neumayer, Eric. (2005). Do international human rights treaties improve respect for human rights?. Journal of Conflict Resolution 49(6): pp. 925-53.

7. Sovereignty and Intervention: Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect

Readings:

Stamnes, Eli (2009), “Speaking R2P and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities”, Global Responsibility to Protect 1, pp.70-89

JL Holzgrefe (2003), “Humanitarian intervention debate”, in JL Holzgrefe, RO Keohane (eds.), Humanitarian intervention: ethical, legal and political dilemmas, Cambridge University Press, pp.15-52.

Further reading:

Source, Alex J. Bellamy (2008), “Conflict Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect”, Global Governance, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 135-156

Kupchan, C. and Kupchan, C. (1995). The promise of collective security. International Security 20(1): pp. 52-61. Mearsheimer, J.J. (1994). The false promise of international institutions. International Security 19(3): pp.5-49

8. Regionalism and Regional Organisations

Readings:

Karns and Mingst, ch. 5.

Frederking and Diehl, ch. 15.

Bennett, pp.229-264.

Wilson, Gary (2003) “UN Authorized Enforcements: Regional Organizations Versus ‘Coalitions of the Willing’”, International Peacekeeping, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 89-106

Barnett, Michael (1995) “Partners in Peace? The UN, Regional Organizations, and Peacekeeping”, Review of International Studies, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 411-433.

9. European organisations (NATO, OSCE, EU)

Readings:

Pollack, M. A. (1997). Delegation, agency, and agenda setting in the European Community. International Organization 51(1): pp. 99-134.

Haas, E.B. (1961). International integration: The European and the universal process, International Organization 15(3): pp. 366-392.

Downs, George W., David M. Rocke, Peter N. Barsoom (1998). Managing the Evolution of Multilateralism. International Organization 52 (2) (Spring): 397-419

Kleine, Mareike. (2013). Knowing Your Limits: Informal Governance and Judgment in the European Union. Review of International Organizations 8 (2): 245-264

10. Regional Organisations in Asia (ASEAN and beyond)

Readings:

Acharya A. (2014), Constructing Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order, London: Routledge

Beeson M. (2009), Institutions of the Asia-Pacific: ASEAN, APEC and Beyond, London, Routledge.

Obligatory literature:

Brian Frederking and Paul F. Diehl, eds., The Politics of Global Governance: International Organizations in an Interdependent World, fifth edition (Lunne Rienner, 2010)

Margaret P. Karns, Karen A. Mingst, and Kendall W. Stiles, International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance, third edition (Lynne Rienner, 2015).

Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Power and Interdependence, fourth edition (Longman, 2012).

Thomas G. Weiss, David P. Forsythe, Roger A. Coate, and Kelly-Kate Pease, The United Nations and Changing World Politics, seventh edition (Westview, 2014).

Supplementary literature:

Buzan Barry and George Lawson. The Global Transformation, History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations, Cambridge Studies in International Relations: 135, Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Michael Davies and Richard Woodward. International Organizations, a Companion, Edward Elgar, 2014.

Hurd, Ian. International Organizations, Politics, Law, Practice, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Ziring, Lawrence; Robert E. Riggs; and Jack C. Plano. The United Nations, International Organization and World Politics, 4th Edition; Thomson, Wadsworth, 2005.

Bennett, A. LeRoy and James K. Oliver. International Organizations, Principles and Issues. 7th Edition; Prentice Hall; 2002.

Tamar Gutner. International Organizations in World Politics, Sage Publications, 2017.

Brian Frederking and Paul F. Diehl. The Politics of Global Governance: International Organizations in an Interdependent World, Fifth Edition, Lynne Rienner, 2015.

Clive Archer. International Organizations, Fourth Edition, Routledge, 2014.

J. Samuel Barkin. International Organizations: Theories and Institutions, Second Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson. International Organizations and Global Governance, Routledge, 2013.