POL440: International Organization
Spring 2016
Professor Christina Davis Thursday 1:30-4:20
442 Robertson
Phone: 258-0177
Email:
Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 1:30-2:30
Please sign up for office hour appointment online using wass.princeton.edu.
Course description
From peacekeeping operations, development assistance, to rules for free trade, the mandate for international organizations continues to expand. Why do states delegate authority, and what accounts for the change over time and issue in the role of international organizations to promote cooperation? The course will examine theories about the design and effectiveness of formal institutions and assess the record of specific organizations including the United Nations, World Trade Organization, and World Bank. This is an advanced seminar, and students should have completed POL240 or POL381 prior to enrollment.
Course requirements
1) Participation in seminar discussion. 20 percent
2) Take home mid-term 20 percent (4 page essay exam due by noon on XX)
3) Oral presentation 20 percent (present case study related to topic, sign-up for weeks 5-12)
3) Research paper 40 percent (12-15 page paper due by noon on XX)
Textbook required for class (available at Labyrinth):
Hurd, Ian. International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice. Cambridge University Press, 2014 2nd edition.
Recommended Books:
We will also read several chapters from the following books, which will be on reserve at Stokes library and are available at Labyrinth if you would like to purchase:
Davis, Christina. Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO (Princeton University Press, 2012).
Drezner, Daniel. All Politics is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes. Princeton University Press, 2007.
Keohane, Robert. After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984).
Thompson, Alexander. Channels of Power: The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq (Cornell University Press, 2009).
Fortna, Virginia Page. Does Peacekeeping Work? Shaping Belligerents’ Choices After Civil War (Princeton University Press, 2008).
Research Paper Assignment: Due on Dean’s Date.
The major assignment in the course will be a research paper. It should be 12-15 pages in length (not including title page, abstract page, and bibliography). The expectation is for you to engage in original research to test a clear hypothesis about how international institutions have promoted or failed to promote cooperation in a given area of international affairs. You may focus in on one institution (e.g. International Criminal Court), compare related institutions within an issue area (e.g. League of Nations versus United Nations, or Montreal Protocol and Kyoto Protocol), or analyze cooperation across issue areas (e.g. the structure of international institutions that regulate the economy with those that regulate environmental protection). It is important, however, that you develop an analytical argument and go beyond description. Papers will be graded on the basis of the originality and coherence of your argument, quality of the evidence you present (using a wide range of sources to adjudicate alternative views on the question), and the clarity of writing.
We will discuss expectations for the writing assignment in class, and you will be asked to make an appointment to discuss your topic proposal with me by no later than March 2nd. I am willing to read draft papers/outlines so long as I receive them no later than May 2nd so that I have time to offer comments and you could revised based on these comments. The final paper is due on May 10th by noon and should be submitted by e-mail to me () and my assistant Nancy Trachtman (). There will be a one-third late penalty for every day late.
Please review Princeton’s policies on academic integrity that offer important information on when to cite sources and how to avoid plagiarism
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/integrity/pages/intro/index.htm
Oral Presentation Assignment
You will be asked to sign up for an oral presentation slot during the weeks 5-12. You are encouraged to work in pairs to prepare a case study of an organization where you provide background on the evolution of the organization and its rules and decision-making procedures and use a specific example to highlight its work in action (this could be about one state’s negotiations to join the organization, a study of bargaining over a rule change, a case of noncompliance). The goal will be to draw on the readings from the week, the organization website, and a modest amount of independent research. It is not expected to be a major burden as a research assignment and the focus should be on developing your skills to clearly and concisely present an overview of the organization that highlights key issues of design and effectiveness. You should plan to use a powerpoint presentation, and should bring pdf/power point presentation on a memory stick, or if you want to use your own computer arrive before class with any necessary connector/adapter (mac users!) to be sure setup will go smoothly. Your presentation should be no more than 10 minutes in length, and it is important to practice in advance to be sure that you are able to confidently and clearly present the material within allotted time. The grade will be based 50 percent on substance and 50 percent on the quality of presentation.
Week 1 Introduction
Hurd chapters 1-2 pp. 1-40.
Slaughter, Anne-Marie. “The Real New World Order” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 76, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1997), pp. 183-197.
Week 2 Theories on the Creation and Effect of International Institutions
Keohane, Robert. After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton University Press, 1984), chps. 1, 4-6 (pp. 5-17, 49-109)
Mearsheimer, John. “The False Promise of International Institutions” International Security 19:3 (Winter 1994/95), 5-49.
Hawkins, Darren, David Lake, Daniel Nielson, and Michael Tierney, “Delegation Under Anarchy: States, International Organizations, and Principal-Agent Theory.” Chapter 1 in Delegation and Agency in International Organizations (Cambridge University Press, 2006) pp. 3-38.
Drezner, Daniel. Chapter 1 in All Politics is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes (Princeton University Press, 2007): pp. 1-31.
Recommended:
Martin, "Interests, Power, and Multilateralism," International Organization 46, 4 (Autumn 1992): 765-792.
Rathbun, Brian. (2011). Before Hegemony: Generalized Trust, International Cooperation and the Design of International Organizations. International Organization. Vol. 45 (2), pp. 243-273.
Week 3 International Organizations as Clubs and Networks
Abbott et al, “Orchestration: Global Governance Through Intermediaries,” Chapter 1 in International Organizations as Orchestrators (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Downs, George W., David M. Rocke and Peter N. Barsoom. “Managing the Evolution of Multilateralism,” International Organization, 52:2 (April 1998), 397-419.
Drezner, Daniel. “A Typology of Global Governance Processes,” Chapter 3 in All Politics is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes (Princeton University Press, 2007): pp. 63-88.
Johnston, Alastair Iain, "Treating International Institutions as Social Environments," International Studies Quarterly 45, no. 4 (December 2001): 487-515
Week 4 Theories of Compliance and Enforcement
Chayes, Abram and Antonia Handler Chayes. ``On Compliance.'' International Organization 47, 2 (Spring 1993): 175-205.
Downs, Rocke, and Barsoom, "Is the Good News about Compliance Good News about Cooperation?" International Organization 50, 3 (Summer 1996): 379-406.
Davis, Christina. Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO (Princeton University Press, 2012): Chapters 1-2 and 7.
Dai, Xinyuan. “Information Systems in Treaty Regimes,” World Politics 54 (July 2002): 405-436.
Recommended:
Keohane, Robert, Andrew Moravcsik, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Legalized Dispute Resolution: Interstate and Transnational” in Legalization and World Politics special issue, International Organization 54 no. 3 (2000): 457-488.
Week 5 The United Nations and Collective Security
Hurd “The United Nations I, II” pp. 101-164.
Hurd, Ian. After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the United Nations Security Council International Organization, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Spring, 1999), pp. 379-408
Thompson, Alexander. Channels of Power: The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq (Cornell University Press, 2009) pp. 1-85, 163-203.
Wallander, Celeste and Robert O. Keohane. ``Risk, Threat, and Security Institutions.'' In Haftendorn, Helga et al. Imperfect Unions: Security Institutions Over Time and Space. Oxford University Press 1999, pp.21--47.
Week 6 UN Peacekeeping
Fortna, Virginia Page. Does Peacekeeping Work? Shaping Belligerents’ Choices After Civil War (Princeton University Press, 2008).
Betts, Richard “The Delusion of Impartial Intervention” Foreign Affairs Vol. 73, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1994), pp. 20-33
Evans, Sahnoun “The Responsibility to Protect” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 81, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 2002), pp. 99-110
Barnett, Michael and Martha Finnemore. “Genocide and the Peacekeeping Culture at the UN,” in Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics (Cornell University Press, 2004) pp. 121-155.
Week 7 Human Welfare: Labor and Health
Hurd Chapter 7 “The International Labor Organization” pp. 165-189.
Ruggie, John Gerard. “Global Governance and ‘New Governance Theory”: Lessons from Business and Human Rights,” Global Governance 20 (2014): 5-17.
Garrett, Laurie. “Challenge of Global Health”. Foreign Affairs. 86 (1) Jan-Feb 2007: 14-38.
Cooper, Richard. “International Cooperation in Public Health as a Prologue to Macroeconomic Cooperation,” in Cooper et al editors Can Nations Agree? Issues in International Economic Cooperation (Brookings Institutions) pp.178-254.
Week 8 International Financial Institutions
Hurd “The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank” pp. 71-100.
Drezner, Daniel. “Club Standards and International Finance,” Chapter 5 in All Politics is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes (Princeton University Press, 2007): pp.119-148.
Stone, Randall W., 2008. “The Scope of IMF Conditionality.” International Organization 62: 589—620.
Findley et al “Orchestrating the fight against anonymous incorporation: a field experiment” Chapter 12 in International Organizations as Orchestrators (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Recommended:
Helleiner, Eric and Stefano Pagliari “Crisis and the Reform of International Financial Regulation,” in Helleiner et al ed. Global Finance in Crisis (Routledge 2010) pp. 1-17.
Chweiroth, Jeff. "Testing and Measuring the Role of Ideas: The Case of Neoliberalism in the International Monetary Fund," International Studies Quarterly, 51, no. 1 (2007): 5-30.
Week 9 International Trade
Hurd, “The World Trade Organization,” pp. 41-70.
Milgrom, Paul R., Douglass C. North, and Barry R. Weingast. ``The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs.'' Economics and Politics 2, no. 1 (1990): 1--23.
Davis, Christina. Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO (Princeton University Press, 2012): pp. 62-69, chapter 4, 8.
John Barton, Judith Goldstein, Tim Josling, and Richard Steinberg. The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Politics, Law, and Economics of the GATT and the WTO. Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 1-25; 125-152.
Recommended:
Rose, Andrew. “Do we really know that the WTO increases trade?” American Economic
Review 94, no. 1 (2004): 98–114.
Goldstein, Judith, Doug Rivers, and Mike Tomz. “Institutions in International Relations: Understanding the Effects of GATT and the WTO on World Trade,” International Organization 61, no. 1 (2007): 37-67.
Gowa, Joanne and Soo Yeon Kim. "An Exclusive Country Club: The Effects of GATT 1950-94," World Politics 57, no. 4 (2005): 453-478.
Week 10 Cooperation to Protect the Environment
Barrett, Scott. Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making (Oxford University Press, 2006) chapters 1, 2, 11, and 15.
Nielson, Daniel and Michael Tierney. “Delegation to International Organizations: Agency Theory and World Bank Environmental Reform.” International Organization 57 no. 2 (Spring 2003): 241-276.
Keohane, Robert and David Victor. “The Regime Complex for Climate Change,” Perspectives on Politics, 9 no. 1 (2011): 7-23.
Green, Jessica. Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance (Princeton University Press, 2014), pp. 104-131.
Recommended:
Johnson, Tana and Johannes Urpelainen. “A Strategic Theory of Regime Integration and Separation.” International Organization, 66, (2012): 645-677.
Haas, Peter M. ``Do Regimes Matter? Epistemic Communities and Mediterranean Pollution Control,'' International Organization 43, no. 3. (Summer 1989): 377--403.
Mitchell, Ronald and Thomas Bernauer. “Empirical Research on International Environmental Policy: Designing Qualitative Case Studies,” The Journal of Environment Development , 7 no. 1 (1998): 4-31.
Week 11 Human Rights Treaties and the International Criminal Court
Hurd, “The International Criminal Court” pp. 217-244.
Krasner, Stephen. “Introduction” and “Rulers and Ruled: Human Rights” chapter in Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. pp. 1-42, 105-126.
Kelley, Judith. “Who Keeps International Commitments and Why? The International Criminal Court and Bilateral Non-Surrender Agreements.” American Political Science Review, 101, no. 3 (2007): 573-589.
Hafner-Burton, Emilie. Making Human Rights a Reality (Princeton University Press, 2013), pp. 1-17.
Vreeland, James. “Political Institutions and Human Rights: Why Dictatorships Enter into the United Nations Convention against Torture.” International Organization Vol. 62, no. 1 (Winter 2008), pp. 65-101.
Recommended:
Hathaway, Oona. “Do Human Rights Treaties Make a Difference?” The Yale Law Journal 111 (2002): 1935-2041.
Morrow, James. “When Do States Follow the Laws of War?” American Political Science Review 101, no. 3 (August 2007): 559-572.
Beth Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Chapter 4, 6.
Week 12 Conditional Membership and Regional Integration
Hurd, “The European Union and Regional Organizations” pp. 251-279.
Gray, Julia. The Company States Keep: International Economic Organizations and Investor Perceptions (Cambridge University Press, 2013) pp. 1-15, 85-123.
Schneider, Christina. “Weak States and Institutionalized Bargaining Power in International Organizations.” International Studies Quarterly 55 (2011): 1-25.
Recommended:
Meunier, Sophie and Kate McNamara. Making History: European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty. Oxford University Press, 2007. Introduction and chapters by Moravcsik, and Verdun.