POL 354:
International Organization
Fall 2004
229 Cornell
Hall
TR
Professor:
Dr. Michael Gunter
Office: 212 Cornell Hall
Office
Hours:
MWF
Phone: 407-646-2263
Email: mgunter@rollins.edu
Web address: http://web.rollins.edu/~mgunter/
REQUIRED TEXTS
The following required materials are available
at the Rollins College Bookstore or the reserve desk at Olin Library:
1. Keohane,
Robert O. and Joseph S. Nye. Power and Interdependence. (3rd edition)
2. Gunter, Michael M. Building
the Next
3. Reserve
4. Rieff,
David. A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis.
5. Senn, Alfred
E. Power,
Politics, and the Olympic Games: A History of the Power Brokers, Events, and
Controversies that Shaped the Games.
6. Strunk,
William Jr. and E.B. White. The
Elements of Style.
7. Ziring,
Lawrence, Robert E. Riggs, and Jack C. Plano.
The United Nations: International
Organization and World Politics. (4th edition)
ADDITIONAL REQUIRED
As noted above, there are a number of
reserve readings on hold at the Olin Library.
In addition to the above texts and reserve reading, moreover, you are
required to keep abreast with current events at the global level. Diligently keeping up with international
issues as they unfold will ensure that you are not handicapped in your ability
to participate during class discussion.
This course also has a current events component as seen in the oral
reports assignment handout. I recommend
the international sections of a national daily newspaper such as The New
York Times or The Washington Post.
These are both available on the web at http://nytimes.com/
and http://www.washingtonpost.com/,
respectively. The Olin Library also
holds daily paper copies of The New York Times and the Sunday edition of
The Washington Post.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Scholars of international relations use
the end of the Thirty Year’s War in
Over 350 years later, the nation-state
still remains central to understanding world politics. But today, the nation-state no longer
dominates world politics alone. There
are other actors on the international stage, from multinational or
transnational corporations to terrorist networks to environmental and human
rights NGOs. And there are groups that
states assemble themselves, international organizations. This class examines
the interaction of all of these entities, which together are traditionally
known as international organization.
That is, we will examine inter-state groups such as the United Nations,
WTO, OPEC, and EU as well as a number of international regimes supported by
treaties such as the Kyoto Convention, Montreal Protocol and the UN Convention
on Human Rights. We will also examine
non-state entities such as large corporations like Dupont Chemical or British
Petroleum, NGOs like the Sea Shepherd Society or Médecins
Sans Frontières, and terrorist networks like Al Qaeda. Our objective
throughout is to better understand the emerging forms of global governance.
We have an interesting combination of
texts and readings to guide class discussions in this course. Diligently keeping on schedule with your
reading load will allow you to take full advantage of our discussions. Be sure to come to class prepared and ready
to actively participate. The course
places a heavy burden on you, the students.
Several exercises throughout the semester are intended to foster active
learning and to provide structure to your participation grade. Please note that participation entails more
than mere attendance. It requires active
attendance. Be sure to come prepared to
actively participate.
There will also be
several writing assignments as well as essay exams in this course. Of all that you learn in college, writing is
one of the most important. Regardless of
your career goal, you will need to develop the skill of writing well. Writing also helps us learn. It focuses our thoughts and forces us to
organize and document them. For general
guidance on writing style, we will read the pamphlet by William Strunk and E.B. White, entitled The Elements of Style. It is also available online at: http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html.
COURSE EXPECTATIONS
The prerequisite for this course is POL
130. You should not be enrolled in this
course if you have not taken that class.
Participation in class is expected, especially since we have the luxury
of a small seminar environment. Material
discussed in class will appear on exams and other assignments. As outlined below, participation will play a
key role in determining final grades, especially border-line cases.
Please be advised that the reading load
is heavy at times and requires a substantial time commitment outside of class
meetings. As your Rollins College
Catalogue suggests, you should anticipate spending an average of three hours
outside of class for every hour spent in class.
I recommend that you carefully look over the course materials and decide
how much time you are willing to invest before committing yourself to this
class.
As upper division college students you
are already familiar with the term plagiarism.
Remember, any work that borrows wording, ideas, or even organization
from another source without appropriate acknowledgment is defined as
plagiarism. A general rule of thumb is
to cite any phrase that is not common knowledge and longer than four
words. Severe penalties are in place for
any violations.
GRADING POLICY:
Per
the Rollins College Catalogue, the grade report is based on the following
definitions:
A is reserved for work that is
exceptional in quality and shows keen insight, understanding, and initiative.
B is given for work that is consistently
superior and shows interest, effort, or originality.
C is a respectable grade required for
graduation; it reflects consistent daily preparation and satisfactory
completion of all work required.
D- is the lowest passing grade; it is
below the average necessary to meet graduation requirements and ordinarily is
not accepted for transfer by other institutions.
F is failing.
Grading is based upon percentages that
equate to the standard +/- system below:
A = 93 % and above
A- = 90-92
B+
= 87-89
B = 83-86
B- = 80-82
C+
= 77-79
C = 73-76
C- = 70-72
D+
= 67-69
D = 63-66
D- = 60-62
F = 59 and below
Unless another due date is announced in
class, you are responsible for turning in assignments on time before class
starts. After class begins, assignments will
be considered late so do not skip class just to finish an assignment. Late assignments are docked 1/3rd
letter grade until
GRADING DISTRIBUTION:
5% Oral
Current Events Report
5% Op-ed
Submission
5% Paper
Thesis/Bibliography/Proposal
10% Final NGO Case Study Paper
15% Weekly Quizzes
20% Daily Participation
20% Midterm
20%
Final
COURSE SCHEDULE
Part I
Theoretical
Overview
Week 1: Aug. 26
Introduction: Issues and Actors
Week 2: Aug.31/Sept.2
Understanding Interdependence
Keohane and Nye: Chpt.1
RR: Simon Chesterman, “Bush, the United Nations and Nation-building,”
Survival, 46, 1, Spring 2004, 101-116.
RR: Robert O. Keohane, “International
Institutions: Can Interdependence Work?” Foreign Policy 110 (Spring
1998), pp. 82-96.
From Realism to Complex Interdependence
Keohane and Nye: Chpt.2
RR: Robert Kagan,
“Power and Weakness,” Policy Review: http://www.policyreview.org/JUN02/kagan.html
Senn: Chpt.1
Week 3:Sept.7/9
At the Bargaining Table: Constructing
Regimes
Keohane and Nye: Chpt.3
RR: Paul Wapner, “World Summit on Sustainable Development: Toward a
Post-Johannesburg Environmentalism,” Global
Environmental Politics, vol.3:1 (2003), pp.1-10
Senn: Chpt.4
Do International Institutions Work?
RR: Woodrow
Wilson, “The World Must be Made Safe for Democracy,” Address to Congress
RR: Woodrow
Wilson, “The Fourteen Points,” Address to Congress,
RR: John Mearsheimer, “The False Promise of International
Institutions,” International Security, Winter 1994/1995 (vol.19:3),
pp.5-49
Part II:
Evolution of UN System
Week 4: Sept.14/16
The League and Its Failings
Ziring et al: Chpt.1
RR: The
Covenant of the
RR: Woodrow Wilson,
“The Final Triumph,” Address at Metropolitan Opera House,
Genesis of the United Nations: Writing
the Charter
Senn: Chpt.6
RR: Charter of
the United Nations: http://www.un.org/aboutun/charter
RR: Inis L. Claude, Jr., Swords into Plowshares, (4th
edition).
Week 5: Sept. 21/23
Case Study: The Kurds
Guest
Speaker, Dr. Michael Gunter,
RR:
Gunter, “The Kurdish Question in Perspective,” World Affairs, Summer 2003 (vol.166:1):
Senn: Chpt.7, 10
UN Constitutional Structure, Functions
& Financial Realities
RR:
“UN in Brief” at the United Nations website http://www.un.org/Overview/brief.html.
Ziring et al: Chpt.2
RR: David
Skidmore, “Who is at the Helm? The Debate Over U.S. Funding for the United
Nations,” Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University, 2000.
Case Study Thesis/Preliminary
Bibliography Due
Week 6: Sept.28/30
Politics of the UN & the UN
Secretariat: From Cold War to Today
Ziring et al: Chpt.3
Ziring et al: Chpt.4
Collective
Security & Secretary General
Ziring et al: Chpt.5
RR: Kofi
Annan, “Nobel Lecture,” December 10, 2001: http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/2001/annan-lecture.html
RR: Skim United Nations
Secretary-General’s homepage: http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/
Part III:
Regional Integration
Week 7: Oct. 5/7
The European Union Single Market
RR: Skim European Union’s
website, Europa: http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm.
RR: Zbigniew Brzezinski, “Living with
a New Europe,” National Interest,”
#60 (Summer 2000)
RR: Werner Weidenfeld, “The Euro and the New Face of the European
Union,” The Washington Quarterly,
vol.22:1 (1999)
The Evolving EU: Foreign Policy & Enlargement
RR: Stephen Kinzer, “Will Turkey Make It?” The New York Review of
Books, July 15, 2004: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17240.
RR: Skim EU Observer at http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?sid=15
RR: Skim EU website of: http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/index_en.html
NAFTA
RR: Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza,
“NAFTA at 5,” Nation, vol.268:3 (Jan.
25, 1999)
RR:
“The NAFTA Effect,” New Perspectives
Quarterly,” vol.17:2 (Spring 2000)
Case Study Proposal Due
Story of OPEC
RR: Daniel Yergin, Chpt.20-22, The Prize: The Epic Quest for
Oil, Money & Power. New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1992.
Part IV:
Development and Social Issues
Week 9: Oct. 19/21
Democracy and American Foreign Policy
Senn:
Chpt.12, 13
RR: Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace
(1795), excerpt: http://socsci.colorado.edu/~parisr/PS4173/Kant.htm
Required
Thursday night event: Global
Connections of Central Florida
Emerging Democracies Panel, 7 p.m. at
Bush Auditorium,
Ambassador
Harriet Elam-Thomas (Senegal)
Lt. General Jay
Garner (retired) (Iraq)
Georges Fauriol, International Republican Institute (Haiti)
Gerrit Gong of
Brigham Young U. (
Eugene Huskey of Stetson (
Controversies Surrounding the WTO
Ziring et al: Chpt.10
RR:
Skim WTO website: http://www.wto.org
RR: Thomas
L. Friedman, “Senseless in
RR: Thomas
L. Friedman, “Senseless in Seattle II,” New York Times (December 8,
1999): http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/friedman/120899frie.html
Reforming the IMF and the World Bank
RR: Joseph
S. Nye, “Globalization's Democratic Deficit - How to Make International
Institutions More Accountable,” Foreign Affairs (July-August 2001), pp.
2-6.
RR: Skim websites IMF: http://www.imf.org)
and World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org
RR: Skim anti-globalization
website: http://www.whirledbank.org/
RR:
Skim United Nations Development Program website: http://www.undp.org
Week 11: Nov.2/4
Case
Study: NGOs
RR: David
Davenport, “The New Diplomacy,” Policy Review, December 2002: http://www.policyreview.org/dec02/davenport_print.html
RR: Joseph S. Nye,
“NGO’s: Global Players with Soft Power,” Straits Times (
RR:
Gunter, Intro and Chpt.1 (NGO section)
Constructing Viable Environmental
Regimes:
RR:
John Brown, “Beyond Kyoto,” Foreign
Affairs, July/August 2004 (vol.83:4)
RR: George C. Marshall, “Against Hunger,
Poverty, Desperation and Chaos,” (Harvard Address), Foreign Affairs, vol.76:3 (May/June 1997)
Gunter: Chpt.1
(international treaty section), Epilogue
Week 12: Nov. 9/11
Global Health: Lessons of Influenza 1918
RR: Gro Harlem Brundtland, “The Globalization of Health,” Seton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and
International Relations, vol. IV:2 (Summer/Fall 2003), pp.7-12.
Rieff: Intro, Chpt.1
Film: A
& E Investigative Reports: Earth in the Hot Seat
Rieff: Chpt.2-4
Papers Due
Week 13: Nov. 16/18
Search for Justice: Humanitarianism and
Human Rights
Rieff: Epilogue
Ziring et al: Chpt.9
RR:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Peacekeeping vs. Peacemaking
Ziring et al: Chpt.5
(last section on peacekeeping)
RR: Edward Luttwak, “Give War a Chance,” Foreign Affairs,
July/August 1999, pp.36-44
RR:
Skim UN’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations:
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/home.shtml
Part V:
Security Issues
Week 14: Nov. 23/25
Arms Control
Ziring et al: Chpt.7
RR: Daniel Byman, “A Farewell to Arms Inspections,” Foreign Affairs,
Jan./Feb. 2000 (vol.79:1), pp.119-132
RR: Jayantha Dhanapala, “Multilateralism and the Future of the Global
Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime,” The
Nonproliferation Review, Fall2001: http://disarmament.un.org/speech/nprvwfall01.pdf
Thanksgiving
Frontline Film: Inside
the Terror Network
RR: Wright,
Lawrence. “The Terror Web,”
The
New Yorker,
RR:
Skim Al Qaeda training manual: http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/trainingmanual.htm
Case Study: Combating Terrorism
Ziring et al: Chpt.11
RR: Briefly
skim 9/11 Commission Final Report: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/index.html
RR:
Read Executive Summary of Final 9/11 Commission Report: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/22jul20041130/www.gpoaccess.gov/911/pdf/execsummary.pdf
RR: Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, “Combating
Terrorism,” Washington Quarterly, Autumn 2003,
163-176: http://www.twq.com
(http://www.twq.com/03autumn/docs/03autumn_chantal.pdf)
Coping with Interdependence
Keohane and Nye: Chpt.8
Keohane and Nye, “Two
Cheers for Multilateralism,” Foreign
Policy, vol.60 (Fall 1985) reprinted in Power
and Interdependence, pp.288-300
Final
Exam: Tuesday, Dec. 14th @
* Please note changes in
this schedule may be necessary as we progress through the semester.
Any such changes will be
announced in class.