Course schedule (2024)

1. Course introduction and requirements (22.2.2024)

Bloc I: Theory

2. Theorizing international cooperation and international organizations – realist, liberal institutionalist and constructivist perspectives (29.2.2024)

Discussion:

Murphy, Craig N., "The Last Two Centuries of Global Governance", Global Governance 21 (2), 2015: 189–96.

Optional:

Weiss, Thomas G. and Rorden Wilkinson, "Rethinking Global Governance? Complexity, Authority, Power, Change", International Studies Quarterly 58, 2014: 207-215.
Karns, Margaret P. and Karen A. Mingst, International organizations: the politics and processes of global governance (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004). Chapter 2 – “The Theoretical Foundations of Global Governance”.
Abbot, Kenneth W. and Duncan Snidal, “Why States Act through Formal International Organizations”, The Journal of Conflict Resolution 42 (1), 1998: 3-32.

3. Expectations and output – questions of the legitimacy of international organizations (7.3.2024)

Discussion:

Hooghe, Liesbet, Lenz, Tobias and Marks, Gary, "Contested world order: The delegitimation of international governance", Review of International Organizations 14 (4), 2019: 731–743.

Optional:

Dahl, Robert A., “Can international organizations be democratic? A skeptic’s view” in Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordón, Democracy’s Edges (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Steffek, Jens, “The output legitimacy of international organizations and the global public interest”, International Theory 7 (2), 2015: 263-293.
Hurd, Ian, "Legitimacy, Power, and the Symbolic Life of the UN Security Council", Global Governance 8 (1), 2002: 35-51.
Hurd, Ian, "Legitimacy and contestation in global governance: Revisiting the folk theory of international institutions", Review of International Organizations 14 (4), 2019: 717–729.

4. The principal-agent problem and the socialization effect of international organizations (14.3.2024)

Discussion:

Gheciu, Alexandra, "Security Institutions as Agents of Socialization? NATO and the 'New Europe'", International Organization 59 (4), 2005: 973-1012.

Optional:

Kent, Ann, “China's International Socialization: The Role of International Organizations”, Global Governance 8 (3), 2002: 343-364.
Graham, Erin, “International organizations as collective agents: Fragmentation and the limits of principal control at the World Health Organization”, European Journal of International Relations 20 (2), 2014: 366-390.

Bloc II: The US Government and International Organizations

5. Executive agreements and US Presidential powers in foreign policy (21.3.2024)

Discussion:

Zoellick, Robert, “Congress and the making of US foreign policy”, Survival 41 (4), 1999: 20-41.

Optional:

Krutz, Glen S., and Jeffrey S. Peake, Treaty Politics and the Rise of Executive Agreements: International Commitments in a System of Shared Powers (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2009). Chapter 1 – “Treaties and Executive Agreements: A History”.

6. Dean's Holiday - No Class (28.3.2024)

7. Class cancelled (4.4.2024)

8. "Trump problems": Withdrawals and US approaches to multilateralism (11.4.2024)

Discussion:

Stokes, Doug, “Trump, American hegemony and the future of the liberal international order”, International Affairs 94 (1), 2018: 133–150.

Optional:

von Borzyskowski, Inken and Vabulas, Felicity, "Hello, goodbye: When do states withdraw from international organizations?" Review of International Organizations 14 (2), 2019: 335–366.
Ikenberry, John G., “State Power and the Institutional Bargain: America's Ambivalent Economic and Security Multilateralism” in Foot, Rosemary, S. Neil MacFarlane, and Michael Mastanduno, eds. US Hegemony and International Organizations: The United States and Multilateral Institutions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Reisman, Michael W., “The United States and international institutions”, Survival 41 (4), 1999: 62-80.

Bloc III: US Power and Influence in International Organizations

9. The idea of collective security - The Security Council and US power (18.4.2024)

Discussion:

Lättilä, Ville and Aleksi Ylönen, "United Nations Security Council Reform Revisited: A Proposal", Diplomacy & Statecraft 30 (1), 2019: 164-186.

Optional:

Miller, Lynn H., “The Idea and the Reality of Collective Security”, Global Governance 5 (3), 1999: 303-332.
Krisch, Nico, “The Security Council and the Great Powers” in Lowe Vaughan etl (eds.). The United Nations Security Council And War: The Evolution Of Thought And Practice Since 1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Weiss, Thomas G., “The illusion of UN Security Council reform”, Washington Quarterly 26 (4), 2003: 147-161.

10. The (ir)relevance of NATO after the Cold War – Changing US perspectives (25.4.2024)

Discussion:

Marten, Kimberly, "Reconsidering NATO Expansion: a Counterfactual Analysis of Russia and the West in the 1990s", European Journal of International Security 3 (2), 2018: 135–61.

Optional:

Layne, Christopher, “US Hegemony and the Perpetuation of NATO”, Journal of Strategic Studies 23 (3), 2000: 59-91.
Lanoszka, Alexander, "Thank goodness for NATO enlargement", International Politics 57 (3), 2020: 451–470.
Goldgeier, James M., “NATO expansion: The anatomy of a decision”, The Washington Quarterly 21 (1), 1998: 83-102.

11. US and international tribunals and courts (2.5.2024)

Discussion:

Birdsall, Andrea, “The ‘Monster That We Need to Slay’? Global Governance, the United States, and the International Criminal Court”, Global Governance 16 (4), 2010, 451-469.

Optional:

Paulus, Andreas L., “From Neglect to Defiance? The United States and International Adjudication”, European Journal of International Law 15 (4), 2004: 783–812.

12. The role of the US in international financial institutions (9.5.2024)

Discussion:

Woods, Ngaire, “The United States and the International Financial Institutions: Power and Influence Within the World Bank and the IMF” in Foot, Rosemary, S. Neil MacFarlane, and Michael Mastanduno (eds.), US Hegemony and International Organizations: The United States and Multilateral Institutions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).

Optional:

Vreeland, James Raymond, The International Monetary Fund: Politics of Conditional Lending, New York: Routledge, 2007, Chapters 2 and 6 – “Who controls the IMF?” and “Reform the IMF?”
Wade, Robert Hunter, “US hegemony and the World Bank: the fight over people and ideas”, Review of International Political Economy 9 (2), 2002, 215-243.

13. Maritime law: the US and UNCLOS (16.5.2024)

Discussion:

Smith, Leland Holbrook, “To accede or not to accede: An analysis of the current US position related to the United Nations law of the sea”, Marine Policy 83, 2017: 184-193.

Optional:

Hudzik, Elizabeth M., “A Treaty on Thin Ice: Debunking the Arguments against U.S. Ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea in a Time of Global Climate Crisis”, Washington University Global Studies Law Review 9 (2), 2010: 353-370.

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