International Organizations

Course introduction

• Introduction to International Organizations Compulsory Reading: Hurd, I. (2021) ‘Introduction to International Organizations’, pp. 1-15. Recommended Reading: Alvarez, J. (2006) ‘International Organizations: Then and Now’, American Journal of International Law, pp.324-46. Recommended Reading: Griffin, K. (2003) ‘Economic Globalization and Institutions of Global Governance’, Development & Change, 34(5): 789-807. Recommended Reading: Katzenstein, Peter J., Robert O. Keohane, and Stephen D. Krasner. “International Organization and the Study of World Politics.” International Organization 52, no. 4 (1998): 645-85.

Theorizing International Organizations & Research Methods Compulsory Reading: Hurd, I. (2021) ‘Theory, Methods and International Organizations’, pp. 16-41. Recommended Reading: Hurd, I. (2014) ‘Theory, Methods and International Organizations’, pp. 15-40. • Barnett, M.N. and Finnemore, M. (1999) ‘The Politics, Power and Pathologies of International Organizations’, International Organization, 53(4): 699-732. • Chimni, B.S. (2004) ‘International Institutions Today: An Imperial Global State in the Making’, European Journal of International Law, 15(1): 1-37. Recommended Reading: Hurd, Ian. “Theorizing International Organizations: Choices and Methods in the Study of International Organizations.” Journal of International Organizations Studies 2, no. 2 (2011): 7-22. The United Nations I: Law and Administration Compulsory Reading: Hurd, Chapter 3. (pp:42-80) Recommended Reading: Beckfield, J. (2003) ‘Inequality in the world polity: the structure of international organization’, American Sociological Review, 68(3): 401-424 Recommended Reading: Otto, D. (1996) ‘Nongovernmental organizations in the United Nations System: The Emerging Role of International Civil Society, Third World Quarterly, 18(1): 107-141.

The United Nations II: International Peace and Security Compulsory Reading: Hurd, Chapter 4. (pp:81-108) Recommended Reading: Tryggestad, T.L. (2009) ‘Trick or Treat? The UN and Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security’, Global Governance, 15(4): 539-558. Recommended Reading: Claude, I.L. (1996) ‘Peace and Security: Prospective Roles for the United Nations’, Global Governance, 2: 289-98.

The World Trade Organization Compulsory Reading: Hurd, Chapter 5.(pp:109-140) Recommended Reading: Wade, R.H. (2010) ‘What strategies are available for developing countries today? The World Trade Organization and the shrinking of “development space”’, Review of International Political Economy, 10(4): 621-44. Recommended Reading: Baldwin, R. (2016) ‘The World Trade Organization and the Future of Multilateralism’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 30(1): 95-116.

The International Monetary Fund & the World Bank Compulsory Reading: Hurd, Chapter 6. (pp:141-170.) Recommended Reading: Woods, N. (2010) ‘Global Governance after the Financial Crisis: a new multilateralism or the last gasp of the Great Powers?’, Global Policy, 1(1): 51-63 Recommended Reading: Williams, D. (2012) From structural adjustment to good governance’ in The World Bank and Social Transformation in International Politics, ch.3, pp. 48-74. Recommended Reading: Nielson, D.L. and Tierney, M.J. (2003) ‘Delegation to International Organizations: Agency Theory and World Bank Environmental Reform’, International Organization, 57(2): 241-276.

The International Monetary Fund & the World Bank (cont.), Review of the former weeks, Q&A

Mid-Term Week, Revisions, Q&A

 16 March, Monday 18 March Wednesday – No Classes – Spring Break  19 March– No Classes – Half Day Holiday  20 March – 22 March – Feast of Ramadan Holiday

The International Labour Organization Compulsory Reading: Hurd, Chapter 7. (pp:171-194) Recommended Reading: Standing, G. (2010) ‘The International Labour Organization’, New Political Economy, 15(2): 307-18. Recommended Reading: Maul, D. (2009) ‘Help Them Move the ILO Way’: The International Labor Organization and the Modernization Discourse in the era of Decolonization and the Cold War’, Diplomatic History, 33(3): 387-404.

Refugees and International Migration: UNHCR, the IOM and the 1951 Convention Compulsory Reading: Hurd, Chapter 8. (pp:195-218) Recommended Reading: Klabbers, Jan. "Notes on the ideology of international organizations law: The International Organization for Migration, state-making, and the market for migration." Leiden Journal of International Law 32, no. 3 (2019): 383-400. Recommended Reading: Pécoud, Antoine. "What do we know about the International Organization for Migration?" (2018): 1621-1638.

The International Court of Justice Compulsory Reading: Hurd, Chapter 9. (pp:219-252) Recommended Reading: Slaughter-Burley, A.M. (1993) ‘International Law and International Relations Theory: A Dual Agenda’, American Journal of International Law, 87(2): 205-239.

The International Criminal Court Compulsory Reading: Hurd, Chapter 10. (pp:253-280) Recommended Reading: Goldsmith, Jack. “The self-defeating international criminal court.” The University of Chicago Law Review 70, no. 1 (2003): 89-104. Recommended Reading: Jo, Hyeran, and Beth A. Simmons. “Can the International Criminal Court Deter Atrocity?.” International Organization 70, no. 3 (2016): 443-475. Recommended Reading: Mills, Kurt, and Alan Bloomfield. "African resistance to the International Criminal Court: Halting the advance of the anti-impunity norm." Review of International Studies 44, no. 1 (2018): 101-127.

The EU and Regional Organizations Compulsory Reading: Hurd, Chapter 11. (pp:281-310) Compulsory Reading: Hurd, Chapter 12. (pp:311-317) Recommended Reading: Ladi, S. and Tsarouhas, D. (2017) ‘International diffusion of regulatory governance: EU actorness in public procurement’, Regulation & Governance, 11(4): 388-403 Recommended Reading: Graeger, N. (2014) ‘Security: EU-NATO Relations –Informal Cooperation as a Common Lifestyle’, in A. Orsini (Ed.) The European Union with(in) International Organisations, London: Ashgate, pp. 157-79. Recommended Reading: Xiarchogiannopoulou, E. and Tsarouhas, D. (2014) ‘Flexicurity: The EU Actorness at the ILO on Flexicurity’ in A. Orsini (Ed.) The European Union with(in) International Organisations, London: Ashgate, pp. 117-36. 23 April, Thursday – National Sovereignty and Children’s Day Holiday Week 15: (Apr 27) EU (cont.) Week 16: (May 4) Review of the former weeks, Q&A May 8  Last day of classes.