University of Florida

INR 6507

Fall 2007

International Organization

Dr. Samuel Barkin

Office: 334 Anderson

Office Hours: Tuesday 2-4 pm, Wednesday 9-11 am, or by appointment

x2-0262, ext. 222. barkin@polisci.ufl.edu

This course is an introduction to the theories of international organization. It deals with international organizations per se, but its focus is on broader questions of how the international system is organized. We will begin with these broader questions, and will then discuss international organizations specifically, as well as non-state actors. The course will conclude with student presentations, in which we discuss the way you have applied these broader perspectives to a specific issue or problem in international organization.

You will be expected to have done the week's reading before each class, and to come to class prepared to discuss the reading in depth. In the student presentation weeks, you will be reading the papers of those of your colleagues who are presenting that week. You will be expected not only to have read the papers in depth, but also to have commented on them in some detail. You will also be expected to write down (at least) two discussion questions generated by the readings in the second through tenth weeks of the course, and email them to me (at least) four hours before the beginning of class. Most classes will have a short lecture component, but will be primarily discussion. Class participation, including discussion questions, will comprise 20% of the final grade. 10% of the final grade will be comprised of a short paper, based on the reading from a specific week. And 20% of your grade will come from a group project analyzing current trends in the academic IO literature, due in class on November 19.

The other 50% of your grade will be determined by a research paper. This paper, of roughly 6,000 words, will examine one particular issue in international organization (either a particular organization, or a particular problem that is either being dealt with or needs to be dealt with by the international community). It should apply the insights of the various course readings to its particular problem. A prospectus of the paper, of roughly 1,000 words, is due at the beginning of class on October 8. A draft of the full paper is due at noon on Friday, November 2. You will present your findings in one of the last two classes of the semester. The final paper is due in the last class. The presentation will be graded, and will comprise 10% of the final grade. The final paper will comprise the remaining 40% of the grade.

All course readings will be available either electronically (indicated by <) or on loan from me (indicated by 1). There are no required books for the course. There are two recommended books – these do not appear on the list of readings for any particular week, but provide useful background reading. These books are:

-Samuel Barkin, International Organization: Theories and Institutions (Palgrave, 2006). This book provides a quick overview of the way the IO literature is organized in my head.

-Craig Murphy, The United Nations Development Programme: A Better Way? (Cambridge, 2006). This book provides an insider account of the development of one particular IO.

Class Schedule

Week 1 (August 27): Introduction

Week 2 (September 10): Anarchy and Interdependence

-Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics (New York: Random House, 1979), ch. 5 (Political structures), pp. 79-101. 1

-Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics London: Macmillan, 1977), chs. 1-3, pp. 3-76. 1

-Robert Keohane, “Neoliberal Institutionalism: A Perspective on World Politics.” In Keohane, International Institutions and State Power: Essays in International Relations Theory (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989), pp. 1-20. 1

-Alexander Wendt, “Anarchy is what States Make of It.” International Organization 46 (1992), pp. 391-426. <

-John Mearsheimer, “The False Promise of International Institutions.” International Security 19 (1994-95), pp. 5-49. <

-Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye, Power and Interdependence, 3^rd ed. (New York: Longman, 2001), pp. 1-32. 1

Week 3 (September 17): Sovereignty and Globalization

-Samuel Barkin and Bruce Cronin, “The State and the Nation: Changing Norms and the Rules of Sovereignty in International Relations.” International Organization 48 (1994), pp. 107-130. <

-Stephen Krasner, Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. 3-42 and 220-238. 1

-Christian Reus-Smit, “The Constitutional Structure of International Society and the Nature of Fundamental Institutions.” International Organization 51 (1997), pp. 555-590. <

-Jan Aart Scholte, Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000), pp. 1-61. 1

-Elizabeth DeSombre,"Globalization, Competition and Convergence: Shipping and the Race to the Middle," Global Governance, forthcoming. 1

-Daniel Drezner, All Politics is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), chapter 1 (pp. 3-31). <

Week 4 (September 24): Regime Theory

-Stephen Krasner, “Structural Causes and Regime Consequences: Regimes as Intervening Variables.” International Organization 36 (1982), pp. 185-205. <

-Stephen Krasner,“Regimes and the Limits of Realism: Regimes as Autonomous Variables.” International Organization 36 (1982), pp. 497-510. <

-Friedrich Kratochwil and John Gerrard Ruggie, “International Organization: A State of the Art on an Art of the State.” International Organization 40 (1986), pp. 753-775. <

-Robert Keohane, “International Institutions: Two Approaches.” International Studies Quarterly 32 (1989), pp. 379-396. <

-Susan Strange, “Cave! Hic Dragones: A Critique of Regimes Analysis.” International Organization 36 (1982), pp. 479-496. <

-John Coneybeare, “International Organization and the Theory of Property Rights.” International Organization 34 (1980), pp. 307-334. <

Week 5 (October 1): Cooperation under Anarchy

-Lisa Martin and Beth Simmons, “Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions.” International Organization 52 (1998), pp. 729-758. <

-Duncan Snidal, “Coordination Versus Prisoners’ Dilemma: Implications for International Cooperation and Regimes.” American Political Science Review 79 (1985), pp. 923-942. <

-James Fearon, “Bargaining, Enforcement, and International Cooperation.” International Organization 52 (1998), pp. 269-305. <

-Samuel Barkin, “Time Horizons and Multilateral Enforcement in International Cooperation.” International Studies Quarterly 48 (2004), pp. 363-382. <

-Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson, and Duncan Snidal “The Rational Design of International Institutions,” International Organization 55 (2001), pp. 761-800. <

-Emilie Hafner-Burton, “Trading Human Rights: How Preferential Trade Agreements Influence Government Repression.” International Organization 59 (2005), pp. 593-629. <

Week 6 (October 8): Institutional Design

-George Downs, David Rocke, and Peter Barsoom, “Managing the Evolution of Multilateralism.” International Organization 52 (1998), pp. 397-420. <

-Cheryl Shanks, Harold Jacobson, and Jeffrey Kaplan, “Inertia and Change in the Constellation of International Governmental Organizations, 1981-1992.” International Organization 50 (1996), pp. 593-628. <

-Abram Chayes and Antonia Handler Chayes, “On Compliance.” International Organization 47 (1993), pp. 175-205. <

-George Downs, David Rocke, and Peter Barsoom, “Is the Good News about Compliance Good News about Cooperation?” International Organization 50 (1996), pp. 379-406. <

-Ronald Mitchell, “Regime Design Matters: Intentional Oil Pollution and Treaty Compliance.” International Organization 48 (1994), pp. 425-458. <

-Michael Gilligan, “Is There a Broader-Deeper Trade-off in International Multilateral Agreements?” International Organization 58 (2004), pp. 459-484. <

Week 7 (October 15): Constructivist Regimes

-John Gerrard Ruggie, “International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order.” International Organization 36 (1982), pp. 379-415. <

-John Gerard Ruggie, “Multilateralism: Anatomy of an Institution.” International Organization 46 (1992), pp. 561-598. <

-Inis Claude, Jr., “Collective Legitimization as a Political Function of the United Nations.” International Organization 20 (1966), pp. 267-279. <

-Ian Hurd, “Legitimacy and Authority in International Politics.” International Organization 53 (1999), pp. 379-408. <

-Peter Haas, “Introduction: Epistemic Communities and International Policy Coordination.” International Organization 46 (1992), pp. 1-36. <

-Darren Hawkins, “Explaining Costly International Institutions: Persuasion and Enforceable Human Rights Norms.” International Studies Quarterly 48 (2004), pp. 779-804. <

-Gregory Flynn and Henry Farrell, “Piecing Together the Democratic Peace: The CSCE and the ‘Construction’ of Security in Post-Cold War Europe.” International Organization 53 (1999), 505-535. <

Week 8 (October 22): Regime Effect

-Martha Finnemore, National Interest and International Society (Cornell University Press, 1996), pp. 1-33. 1

-Jon Pevehouse, “Democracy from the Outside-In: International Organizations and Democratization?” International Organization 56 (2002), pp. 515-550. <

-Kenneth Abbott, Robert Keohane, Andrew Moravcsik, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Duncan Snidal, “The Concept of Legalization,” International Organization 54 (2000), pp. 401-420. <

-Bruce Russett, John Oneal, and David Davis, “The Third Leg of the Kantian Tripod for Peace: International Organizations and Militarized Disputes, 1950-1985.” International Organization 53 (1998), pp. 441-468. <

-Christopher Hemmer and Peter Katzenstein, “Why is there no NATO in Asia?” International Organization 56 (2002), pp. 575-608. <

-Lloyd Gruber, Ruling the World: Power Politics and the Rise of Supranational Institutions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. 3-57. 1

Week 9 (October 29): Neoinstitutionalism

-Beth Yarborough and Robert Yarborough, “International Institutions and the New Economics of Organizations.” International Organization 44 (1990), pp. 235-259. <

-Andrew Moravcsik, “A New Statecraft? Supranational Entrepreneurs and International Cooperation.” International Organization 53 (1999), pp. 267-306. <

-Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, “The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organization.” International Organization 53 (1999), pp. 699-732. <

-Daniel Nielson and Daniel Tierney, “Delegation to International Organizations: Agency Theory and World Bank Environmental Reform.” International Organization 57 (2003), pp. 241-276. <

-James March and Johan Olsen, “The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders.” International Organization 52 (1998), pp. 943-969. <

Week 10 (November 5): IOs and NGOs

-Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998), pp. 1-37 and one case chapter. 1

-Richard Price, “Reversing the Gun Sights: Transnational Civil Society Targets Land Mines.” International Organization 52 (1998), pp. 613-644. <

-Paul Wapner, “Politics Beyond the State: Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics.” World Politics 47 (1995), pp. 311-340. <

Week 11 (November 19): New Literature on IOs

Week 12 (November 26): Paper presentations

Week 13 (December 3): Paper presentations