COURSE SYLLABUS: POLITICAL SCIENCE 431,

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

THREE SEMESTER HOURS CREDIT

I. LOCATOR INFORMATION

Instructor's Name: Dr. Andrew J. Dowdle

Class Location: JKSA 204

Class Time: MW 4-5:20 PM

Office Location: TS 207B Office Phone: 486-1347

Office Hours: 9:30-11: 30 TR, 12:30-1:30 M-R, 3-4 MW, 5:30-6 MW

OR BY APPOINTMENT

Alternate phone: Ms. Smith, 486-1573

E-Mail: adowdle@uncfsu.edu

II. Course Description

Political Science 431 is a study of the basic concepts, historical backgrounds, evolution, and functioning of international governmental and administrative systems with primary emphasis on the United Nations.

As such, international organization is the study of cooperation and governance in world politics. Sometimes international cooperation or governance occurs within a formal international organization such as the United Nations, but the scope of international organization as a field of study extends well beyond the boundaries of such formal international agencies. It also includes a broader concern with the way in which human societies interact with one another, and how they structure this interaction.

This course examines both the theory and the practice of international cooperation and governance. It starts by exploring various theories of international organization which should help us to gain a better understanding of the contemporary world, and which provide a theoretical framework for the remainder of the course. We then turn to a number of practical issues and controversies that continue to preoccupy students of international organization, including mechanisms to control violent conflict, the management of the global economy, the rising influence of international non-governmental organizations, the dynamics and meaning of European integration, and the

relationship between the principles of democracy and the practice of international organization. In the end, the course provides students with an opportunity not only to deepen their knowledge of the structure and workings of major international organizations in the world today, but also to explore the larger problem of how to enhance international cooperation and governance in a politically decentralized world.

III. Textbook

Pease, Kelly-Kate S. International Organizations: Perspectives on Governance in the Twenty-First Century. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2000.

IV. Teaching Strategies

This course is taught primarily through lecture. Multi-media and student presentations will also be employed.

V. Evaluation/Grading Scale

Fayetteville State University expects all students to conduct themselves in a responsible manner as adults who understand that they are accountable for the choices they make as students. Students are expected to attend all class meetings scheduled for the courses in which they are registered. Instructors are expected to maintain an accurate written record of student attendance in order to meet veterans’ benefits and other requirements. At the end of each quarter, instructors will record absences for all students all students on the official grade sheets. Absence from class for whatever reason does not does not excuse students from full responsibility for class work or assignment missed. Students will be allowed to make up work only if the instructor excuses the absence. Illness needs to be documented by a note from the infirmary or family doctor. Funerals require a copy of the obituary or funeral program. School activities need to be pre-approved by the class instructor.

GRADING

The final grade for this course consists of two tests, two papers, a presentation of your research, and two class discussions. The mid-term examination is tentatively scheduled for October 9, and the final exam will be administered at the time scheduled by the registrar. The research papers will cover topics arrived at by the instructor and the student and decided upon no later than September 30. The paper will be five-ten pages in length, typed, and double-spaced. You are required to keep a copy of both papers in your possession. The written assignments are due no later than 5 p.m. December 1. The class discussion dates and topics are listed below in your syllabus.

COMPOSITION OF FINAL GRADE

Grades will be based on the following assignments:

Midterm Examination 35%

Final Examination 40%

Two briefing papers 15%

Class discussions 5%

GRADING SCALE

92-100 A

83-91 B

73-82 C

64-72 D

Below 63 F

VI. Additional Sources – Grouped by Topic Area

A. World Government and the Problem of Anarchy

Hedley Bull, "How is Order Maintained in World Politics?" in Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics, 2nd edition (Columbia, 1995), pp. 51-73.

Kal J. Holsti, "Governance Without Government: Polyarchy in Nineteenth-Century European International Politics," in James N. Rosenau and Ernst-Otto Czempiel, eds., Governance Without overnment: Order and Change in World Politics (Cambridge, 1992), pp. 30-57.

Kenneth Waltz, "The Third Image: International Conflict and International Anarchy," in Waltz, Man, the State and War: A Theoretical Analysis (Columbia, 1954), pp. 159-86.

David W. Ziegler, "World Government," in Ziegler, War, Peace and International Politics, 7th edition (Longman, 1997), pp. 163-80.

B. Regime Theory and Neoliberalism

Robert Axelrod and Robert Keohane, "Achieving Cooperation Under Anarchy," in Kenneth Oye, ed., Cooperation Under Anarchy (Princeton, 1986), pp. 226-54.

Robert Keohane, "Neoliberal Institutionalism: A Perspective on World Politics," in Keohane, International Institutions and State Power: Essays in International Relations Theory (Westview, 1989), pp. 1-7.

C. Integration Theories

Karl Deutsch et al., Political Community in the North Atlantic Area: International

Organization in the Light of Historical Experience (Princeton, 1957), pp. 1-9.

Paul Taylor, "Introduction," in David Mitrany, The Functional Theory of Politics (St. Martin's,1975), pp. ix-xv.

Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen, "Neo-Functionalism: Obstinate or Obsolete? A Reappraisal in the Light of the New Dynamism of the E.C.," Millennium 20:1 (Spring 1991), pp. 1-22.

D. Realism

Robert O. Keohane and Lisa L. Martin, "The Promise of Institutionalist Theory," International Security 20:1 (Summer 1995), pp. 39-51.

John Mearsheimer, "The False Promise of International Institutions," International Security 19:3 (Winter 1994/95), pp. 5-26 and 37-49.

John Mearsheimer, "A Realist Reply," International Security 20:1 (Summer 1995), pp. 82-87 and 90-93.

John Gerard Ruggie, "The False Premise of Realism," International Security 20:1 (Summer 1995), pp. 62-70.

Alexander Wendt, "Constructing International Politics," International Security 20:1 (Summer 1995), pp. 71-81.

E. Collective Security: Its Trials and Tribulations

David Armstrong, Lorna Lloyd and John Redmond, From Versailles to Maastricht: International Organization in the Twentieth Century (St. Martin's, 1996), pp. 33-61.

Inis L. Claude, "Collective Security as an Approach to Peace," in Claude, Swords Into

Plowshares, pp. 245-311.

"The Covenant of the League of Nations," reprinted in Claude, Swords Into Plowshares, pp. 453-62.

F.H. Hinsley, "The Failure of the League of Nations," in Hinsley, Power and the Pursuit of Peace: Theory and Practice in the History of Relations Between States (Cambridge, 1963), pp. 309-22.

F: The United Nations' Security Function

Richard K. Betts, "The Delusion of Impartial Intervention," Foreign Affairs 73:6 (Nov./Dec. 1994), pp. 20-33.

Inis L. Claude, "The Origins of the United Nations System," in Claude, Swords Into Plowshares, pp. 57-80.

Margaret P. Karns and Karen A. Mingst, "The Evolution of United Nations Peacekeeping and Peacemaking," in Michael Klare and Yogesh Chandrani, eds., World Security: Challenges for a New Century, 3rd edition (St. Martin's, 1998), pp. 200-28.

Dan Lindley, "Collective Security Organizations and Internal Conflict," in Michael E. Brown, ed., The International Dimensions of Internal Conflict (MIT, 1996), pp. 357-68.

Roland Paris, "Blue Helmet Blues: The End of the UN as a Security Organization?" Washington Quarterly 20:1 (Winter 1997), pp. 191-206.

John Gerard Ruggie, "Wandering in the Void: Charting the UN's New Strategic Role," Foreign Affairs 72:5 (Nov./Dec. 1993), pp. 26-31.

G. Rehabilitating War-Shattered States

Eva Bertram, "Reinventing Governments: The Promise and Perils of United Nations Peace Building," Journal of Conflict Resolution 39:3 (September 1995), pp. 387-418.

Roland Paris, "Peacebuilding and the Limits of Liberal Internationalism," International Security 22:2 (Fall 1997), pp. 54-89.

H. International Organizations and the Global Economy

Benjamin Cohen, The Geography of Money (Cornell, 1998), pp. 142-49.

Peter Gibbon, "The World Bank and the New Politics of Aid," European Journal of Development Research 5:1 (June 1993), pp. 35-62.

Robert J. Holton, "The Global Economy: Organizations, Networks and Regulatory Arrangements," in Holton, Globalization and the Nation-State (St. Martin's, 1998), pp. 49-79.

Louis W. Pauly, Who Elected the Bankers? Surveillance and Control in the World Economy (Cornell, 1997), pp. 1-43 and 79-143.

I. Hegemons and World Politics

Robert Gilpin, The Political Economy of International Relations (Princeton, 1987), pp. 72-80.

Robert O. Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political

Economy (Princeton, 1984), pp. 243-46.

David A. Lake, "British and American Hegemony Compared: Lessons For the Current Era of Decline," in Michael Fry, ed., History, the White House and the Kremlin: Statesmen as Historians (Pinter, 1991), pp. 106-22.

G. John Ikenberry, "The Myth of Post-Cold War Chaos," Foreign Affairs 75:3 (May/June 1996), pp. 79-91.

J. International Non-Governmental Organizations

Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, "Transnational Advocacy Networks in International Politics," in Keck and Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Cornell, 1998), pp. 1-38.

Ronnie D. Lipschutz, "Reconstructing World Politics: The Emergence of Global Civil Society," Millennium 21:3 (Winter 1992), pp. 389-420.

VII. CLASS SCHEDULE AND ASSIGNMENTS (tentative)

Week One – Introduction

Chapter One in Pease

Week Two - International Organizations

Chapter Two in Pease

Week Three- Dominant Paradigms: Realism

pp.37-53 in Pease

Week Four - Dominant Paradigms: Liberalism

No class - September 4

pp. 54-69 in Pease

Week Five - Challenges to the Dominant Paradigms: Feminism and Marxism

Chapter Four in Pease

Week Six - Paradigms - Conclusion

Discussion One (Liberalism vs. Realism) - September 18

Emerging Powers Videotape- September 20

Week Seven - Economics

Chapters Seven and Eight in Pease

Review for Midterm - September 27

Week Eight - War

Selected handouts

Week Nine - War (continued)

Midterm - Oct. 9

Discussion Two (Causes of War) - October 11

Week Ten - NGOs and MNCs

Chapter Nine in Pease

Week Eleven - United Nations

Chapter Five in Pease

Week Twelve - European Union and NATO

EU videotape- October 30

Chapter Six in Pease

Week Thirteen -

No class

Week Fourteen - European Union (continued)

No class- Nov. 15

Week Fifteen -

Student Presentations begin - Nov. 20

Thanksgiving Week

Week Sixteen -

Student Presentations

Week Seventeen -

Review for Final

Final Examination - December 11 @ 4 p.m.