COURSE
OUTLINE
Winter 2013
OFFICIAL COURSE DESCRIPTION
Traditionally, domestic politics has been viewed as the
domain of “government” – in contrast to the relatively “ungoverned” realm of
international affairs. This distinction provided a rational for treating
international relations as a separate field of study. It also informed the
development of national bureaucracies in which the management of international relations
fell to a specialized diplomatic service, leaving most departments and agencies
to concentrate on domestic affairs.
Since the end of World War II, however, and particularly
since the end of the Cold War, globalization has been eroding the boundary
between domestic and international (or global) affairs. On one hand, the
globalization of commerce, markets, investment production, technology,
information, communities, criminal networks, pollution and infection disease
has given rise to a growing array of regulatory structures at the international
or global level which, in various ways, perform “governance” functions that
have historically been associated with the role of the state. At the same time,
many traditionally domestic policy areas – from social welfare to environmental
policies – are now subject to global pressures and influences.
The purpose of this course is to investigate both of these
trends, and, in so doing, to provide students in the Graduate School of Public
and International Affairs with a better understanding of the growing
interconnection between the domestic and the international or global policy
realms.
GENERAL COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of this course
students should be:
- familiar with the major theories of globalization and global governance;
- familiar with the major institutions of global governance in several important areas (security, economics, environment, law, etc.);
- able to understand and explain complex international policy issues that involve global governance;
ASSESSMENT METHODS
Response Papers:
Each student will write TWO response papers during the
course of the semester. Each paper may be a maximum of SEVEN double-spaced
pages (normal fonts and margins). Each paper may be submitted in class. Please
number your pages, include your name on the first page and email your papers to
me. See the course schedule (below) for response paper topics.
Midterm Examination
The midterm exam will cover all the course material up to
the date of the exam.
Participation
The participation grade in this course is significant. It
will be based not only on your involvement in seminar discussions, but also on evidence
that you have completed and understood the weekly readings. Consideration
will be given to attendance, speaking up in class discussions, and work on
in-seminar projects.
Final Exam
The final exam, to be held in class, will take place during
the exam period and will cover the entire course. Students will be expected to
present their own analysis based on the course materials, and to refer
specifically to relevant course readings, in their exam answers.
Beware of Academic Fraud!
Academic fraud is an act committed by a student to distort the marking of assignments, tests, examinations, and other forms of academic evaluation. Academic fraud is neither accepted nor tolerated by the University. Anyone found guilty of academic fraud is liable to severe academic sanctions.
Academic fraud is an act committed by a student to distort the marking of assignments, tests, examinations, and other forms of academic evaluation. Academic fraud is neither accepted nor tolerated by the University. Anyone found guilty of academic fraud is liable to severe academic sanctions.
Here are a few examples of academic fraud:
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engaging in any form of plagiarism or cheating;
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presenting falsified research data;
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handing in an assignment that was not authored, in
whole or in part, by the student;
•
submitting the same assignment in more than one course,
without the written consent of the professors concerned.
In
recent years, the development of the internet has made it much easier to
identify academic plagiarism. The tools available to your professors allow them
to trace the exact origin of a text on the Web, using just a few words.
In
cases where students are unsure whether they are at fault, it is their
responsibility to consult the University’s Web site on student life and
academic resources at the following address: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/undergraduate/student-life-academic-resources
Persons
who have committed or attempted to commit (or have been accomplices to)
academic fraud will be penalized. Here are some examples of the academic
sanctions, which can be imposed:
•
a grade of « F » for the assignment or course in
question;
•
an additional program requirement of between 3 and 30
credits;
•
suspension or expulsion from the Faculty.
For more information, refer to:
Components of Final
Mark
Response Papers 20%
Midterm Exam 20%
Participation 20%
Final Exam (in class) 40%
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Policy on language quality, late submissions and
absences
Aside from
content, your written work will also be judged on your writing abilities. It
is recommended that you to take appropriate measures to avoid mistakes such
as spelling, syntax, and punctuation errors, as well as inappropriate use of
terms, etc. You may be penalized up to 15%, to the professor’s discretion.
Late submissions are not tolerated. Exceptions are
made only for illness or other serious situations deemed as such by the
professor. There will be a penalty for late submissions. University
regulations require all absences from exams and all late submissions due to
illness to be supported by a medical certificate.
A penalty of
5% will be given for each subsequent day following the due date (weekends not
included). This goes for assignments submitted through e-mail as well, and,
in this case, the time that the e-mail was received will be counted as the
time of submission of the document.
Class attendance
is necessary to successfully complete this course.
Absence for any other serious reason must be justified
in writing, to the academic assistants of the Faculty, within five business
days following the date of the exam or submission of an assignment. The
Faculty reserves the right to accept or refuse the reason. Reasons such as
travel, jobs, or any misreading of the examination timetable are not
acceptable.
In the case
of illnesses, medical certificates are accepted. However, the Faculty who
needs additional information concerning a medical certificate or who wants to
verify its authenticity must send it to the University of Ottawa Health
Services (located at 100 Marie-Curie).
We suggest
that you advise your professor as early as possible if a religious holiday or
a religious event will force you to be absent during an evaluation.
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SCHEDULE
Jan. 10 GLOBALIZATION: WHAT’S NEW?
Thomas L. Friedman, “It’s a Flat World After All,” New York
Times Magazine (April 3, 2005).
Pankaj Ghemawat, “Why the World Isn’t Flat,” Foreign Policy
(March 1, 2007).
John Ikenberry, “The Future of the Liberal World Order”, Foreign Affairs 90:3 (MY-JUNE 2011)
56-68.
Shalendra D. Sharma, “The Many Faces of Today's
Globalization: A Survey of Recent Literature,” New Global Studies 2:2 (2008),
pp. 1-27.
Jan. 17 GOVERNANCE: FROM WESTPHALIAN SOVEREIGNTY TO POLYCENTRISM?
Response paper: What’s happening to the state?
James Rosenau, “Governing the Ungovernable: The Challenge of
a Global Disaggregation of Authority,” Regulation and Governance 1:1 (March
2007), pp. 88-97.
Jan Aart Scholte, “Globalization and Governance: From Statism to Polycentrism,” CSGR Working
Paper No. 130/04, University of Warwick, U.K. (February 2004).
David Lake, “Rightful Rules: Authority, Order, and the
Foundations of Global Governance,” International Studies Quarterly 54
(September 2010), pp. 687-613.
Linda Weiss, “The State-Augmenting Effects of
Globalization,” New Political Economy 10:3 (September 2005), pp 345-353.
Ian Goldin and Tiffany Vogel, “Global Governance and
Systemic Risk in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Financial Crisis,” Global
Policy 1:1 (January 2010), pp. 4-15.
II. VARIETIES OF
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Jan. 24 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Response paper: Are you convinced by the authors’ arguments
about the role of international organizations in global governance?
Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World:
International Organizations in Global Politics (Cornell University Press,
2004).
Jan. 31 TRANS-GOVERNMENTAL NETWORKS
Response paper: Is global governance through
trans-governmental networks really “good public policy for the world,” as
Slaughter suggests?
Anne-Marie Slaughter, A New World Order (Princeton
University Press, 2005).
Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Remarks, The Big Picture: Beyond Hot
Spots & Crises in Our Interconnected World”, Penn State Journal of Law
& International Affairs, 1:2, 2012.
Feb. 7 NGOs AND TRANSNATIONAL
ACTIVISM
Response paper: Do transnational non-governmental networks
pose a fundamental challenge to the Westphalian system of governance?
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, “Transnational
Advocacy Networks in International and Regional Politics,” International Social
Science Journal 51:159 (March 1999), pp. 89-101.
Sidney Tarrow, “Rooted Cosmopolitans and Transnational
Activists,” prepared for a special issue of Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia
(2005).
R. Charli Carpenter, “Vetting the Advocacy Agenda: Network
Centrality and the Paradox of Weapons Norms,” International Organization 65:1
(February 2010), pp. 69-102.
Clay Shirky, “The Political Power of Social Media: Technology, the Public Sphere, and Political
Change,” Foreign Affairs 90:1 (January-February 2011).
Tina Rosenberg, “Revolution U: What Egypt Learned from the
Students Who Overthrew Milosevic,” Foreign Policy (February 16, 2011).
John Villasenor, “Recording Everything: Digital Storage as
an Enabler of Authoritarian Governments,” Centre for Technology Innovation,
Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. (December 14, 2011).
Feb. 14 MIDTERM EXAM
Feb. 21 NO MEETING (University Break)
III. POLICY
CHALLENGES SPANNING THE DOMESTIC-INTERNATIONAL DIVIDE
Feb. 28 ECONOMY
Response paper: As
the world continues to experience economic instability, should we expect more
or less cooperation and coordination?
Daniel Drezner, “The Irony of Global Economic Governance:
The System Worked”, Council on Foreign Relations, October 2012.
http://www.cfr.org/international-organizations/irony-global-economic-governance-system-worked/p29101
http://www.cfr.org/international-organizations/irony-global-economic-governance-system-worked/p29101
Richard Samans, Klaus Schwab and Mark Malloch-Brown,
“Running the World, After the Crash,” Foreign Policy 184 (January/February
2011): 80-83.
Ian Bremmer and Nouriel Roubini, “A G-Zero World,” Foreign
Affairs 90 (March/April 2011)
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce, “Global Governance:
Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century”, Policy Brief, March
2009.
March 7 SECURITY
Response paper: Are new security challenges undermining or
strengthening the Westphalian state?
Robert Cooper, “The Post-Modern State and the World Order,”
Demos (2000).
Ian Kearns and Ken Gude, The New Front Line: Security in a
Changing World, IPPR Commission on National Security, Working Paper no. 1
(2008)
Peter Andreas, “Redrawing the Line: Borders and Security in
the 21st Century,” International Security 28:2 (Fall 2003), pp. 78-111.
Government of Canada, “Canada’s Cyber Security Strategy”
(2010).
James Traub, “Think Again: Failed States,” Foreign Policy
187 (July-August 2011), pp. 51-54.
Derek Gregory, “The Everywhere War,” The Geographical
Journal 177:3 (September 2011), pp. 238-250.
March 14 NORTH AMERICA
Response paper: What
do recent efforts at Canada-US cooperation teach us about the “governance” of
North America?
Robert Wolfe, “See You in Washington: A Pluralist
Perspective on North American Institutions,” Choices 9:4 (April 2003).
Jonathan Kent, “Border Bargains and the ‘New’
Sovereignty: Canada-US Border Policies
from 2001 to 2005 in Perspective,” Geopolitics 16:4 (2011), pp. 793-818.
Alexander Moens, “’Lessons Learned’ from the Security and
Prosperity Partnership for Canadian-American Relations,” American Review of
Canadian Studies 41:1 (2011), 53-64.
Colin Robertson, “Beyond the Border and Regulatory Reform,”
Policy Options (December 2011-January 2012), pp. 56-60.
Documents issued by Canada and the United States on December
7, 2011:
Action Plan on Perimeter Security and Economic Competiveness
Action Plan on Regulatory Cooperation
Beyond the Border
Stuart Trew: “Beyond public view: Harper's Beyond the Border
initiative a year later”, Rabble.ca 13 December 2012.
March 21 ENVIRONMENT
Response paper: How important are international versus
domestic factors in explaining national environment policies?
Per Olof Busch and Helge Jörgends, “The International
Sources of Policy Convergence: Explaining the Spread of Environmental Policy
Innovations,” Journal of European Public Policy 12:5 (October 2005), pp.
860-884.
Thomas Bernauer, “A Comparison of International and Domestic
Sources of Global Governance Dynamics,” British Journal of Political Science
40:3 (July 2010), pp. 509-538.
Erika N. Sasser, Aseem Prakash, Benjamin Cashore and Graeme
Auld, “Direct Targeting as an NGO Political Strategy: Examining Private
Authority Regimes in the Forestry Sector,” Business and Politics 8:3 (2006).
Frank Alcock, “Conflicts and Coalitions Within and Across
the ENGO Community,” Global Environmental Politics 8: 4 (November 2008), pp.
66-91.
Scott Barrett and Michael Toman, “Contrasting Future Paths
for an Evolving Global Climate Regime,” Global Policy 1:1 (January 2010), pp.
64-74.
March 28 SOCIAL WELFARE
Response paper: Is
globalization causing a “race to the bottom” in social policy?
Nicola Yeates, “Globalization and Social Policy,” in John
Baldock, Nicholas Manning, and Sarah Vickerstaff, eds., Social Policy, 3rd edn.
(Oxford University Press, 2007), chapter 21.
Philipp Genschel, “Globalization and the Welfare State: A
Retrospective,” Journal of European Public Policy 11:4 (August 2004), pp. 613–636.
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook 2007,
chapter 4, “Globalization and Inequality” (October 2007).
Thomas J. Courchene, “Social Policy and the Knowledge
Economy: New Century, New Paradigm,” Policy Options (August 2004), pp. 30-36.
Keith Banting, “Do We Know Where We Are Going? The New
Social Policy in Canada,” Canadian Public Policy 31:4 (December 2005), pp.
421-429.
IV. LOOKING AHEAD
April 4 POLICYMAKING IN THE FACE OF GLOBAL CHANGE
Barry Eichengreen, “When Currencies Collapse,” Foreign
Affairs 91:1 (January-February 2012), pp. 117-134.
Randall L. Schweller and Xiaoyu Pu, “After Unipolarity:
China's Visions of International Order in an Era of U.S. Decline,”
International Security 36:1 (Summer 2011), pp. 41-72
Chrystia Freeland, “The Rise of the New Global Elite,”
Atlantic Magazine (January-February 2011).
Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Problems Will Be Global – And
Solutions Will Be, Too,” Foreign Policy (September-October 2011).
Canadian International Council, “Open Canada: A Global
Positioning Strategy for a Networked Age” (June 2010).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books and Readings
Most articles listed below are available through the
University of Ottawa’s research databases.
There is no set textbook for this course, and many of the
readings are policy focused. However, for theoretical background, students may
wish to read:
· Barnett, Michael and
Raymond Duvall, eds. Power in Global Governance, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005. *available as an
e-book*
· Held, David et al,
Global Transformations: Politics, Economics, and Culture, Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1999.
· Held, David and Anthony
McGrew, The Global Transformations Reader, Cambridge: Polity, 2003.
There are many other books, articles and journals in the
library and students should make use of them!
Students should be actively reading quality newspapers,
magazines and blogs. In particular, students would do well to read The
Economist (www.economist.com), Foreign
Policy (www.foreignpolicy.com), the
(UK) Guardian (www.guardian.co.uk), BBC
(bbc.co.uk), International Crisis Group (http://www.crisisgroup.org),
Alert Net (http://www.trust.org/alertnet/) , CBC (www.cbc.ca)
and the Canadian International Council (http://opencanada.org
),etc. CIPS at U of O also has its own
blog.: http://cips.uottawa.ca/cipsblog/
Many newspapers are now behind a ‘paywall’ (such as the New
York Times, Financial Times and Globe and Mail.) Students should still be able
to access articles in these publications through university databases.
Finally, many organizations and Think Tanks, organizations
and institutes are now on Twitter. It’s
a great resource for learning about reports, press releases (and even job
openings!) Students are encouraged to responsibly engage in social media.
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