Graduate Seminar in
Globalization &
Governance
API 5106D
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Winter
2014
Instructor:
Prof. Roland Paris
Office
location: FSS 6053
Office
hours: By appointment
Email: rparis@uottawa.ca
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 rationale 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 infectious 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.
Requirements
|
Response
Papers |
20% |
|
Midterm
Exam |
20% |
|
Participation |
20% |
|
Final Exam
(in class) |
40% |
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).
It must be submitted by 12 noon the day before the relevant class
meeting. Late papers will be subject to
penalties (see the lateness policy, below).
Please number your pages, include your name on the first page, and email
your papers to me. You will be provided
with further instructions in class on writing the response papers.
MIDTERM EXAM
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.
FINAL EXAM
The final exam, to be held in class, will take place during the exam period
and will cover the entire course. In
their exam answers, students will be expected to present their own analysis
based on the course materials, and also to refer specifically to relevant
course readings. Further information
on the final exam will be provided in class.
The required readings
for this course consist of ten books and two articles. All ten books have been ordered by the Agora Bookstore (145 Besserer Street).
Scholarly articles
are available via the university
library’s website. For free access
to subscriber-only material, connect to the university’s website from a
University of Ottawa-networked computer.
For off-campus access, please follow these instructions: http://www.biblio.uottawa.ca/html/Page?node=get-access&lang=en.
Cheating and
Plagiarism
Academic fraud – including plagiarism,
submitting work that was produced by someone else, or submitting the same work
in more than one course – may result in a failing grade for a particular
assignment, a failing grade for the course, and/or suspension for various
lengths of time or permanent expulsion
from the university. The onus is on each student to know and comply with the
university’s regulations on academic fraud:
http://www.uottawa.ca/governance/regulations.html#r72.
LATENESS POLICY
There will be a penalty for late submissions.
Exceptions are made only for illness or other serious situations deemed
as such by the professor. University regulations require all absences from exams
and all late submissions due to illness to be supported by a medical
certificate. The Faculty reserves the right to accept or reject the reason put
forth if it is not medical. Reasons such as travel, work and errors made while
reading the exam schedule are not usually accepted. In the event of an illness
or related complications, only the counseling service and the campus clinic
(located at 100 Marie-Curie) may issue valid certificates to justify a delay or
absence. Each day of late submission will
result in a penalty of 5% (weekends included). This also applies to
assignments sent by email (in which case the time of receipt of the email by
the recipient indicates the time of delivery). Please notify the professor as
soon as possible if a religious holiday or event forces your absence during an
evaluation.
Course Schedule
Jan. 7 GOVERNANCE
Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson,
“Rethinking Global Governance? Complexity, Authority, Power, Change,” International Studies Quarterly (2013),
published online in advance of print
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/isqu.12082/abstract
Jan. 14 GLOBALIZATION
Manfred
Steger, Globalization: A Very Short
Introduction (Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2013)
Jan
Aart Scholte, “Defining
Globalization,” World Economy 31:11
(November 2008), pp. 1471‐1502
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120174061/abstract
Jan. 21 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE:
AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Mark Mazower, Governing
the World: The History of an Idea (Penguin, 2012)
Jan. 28 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS & BUREAUCRATIC
CULTURES
Michael Barnett
and Martha Finnemore, Rules for the
World: International Organizations in Global Politics (Cornell University
Press, 2004)
Feb. 4 TRANSGOVERNMENTAL NETWORKS: PRAGMATIC GOVERNANCE?
Anne-Marie
Slaughter, A New World Order (Princeton University
Press, 2005)
Feb. 11 MIDTERM EXAM
Feb. 18 NO MEETING (University Break)
Feb. 25 DOES THE “LIBERAL WORLD ORDER" HAVE A FUTURE?
John G. Ikenberry,
Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis,
and Transformation of the American World Order (Princeton University Press,
2011)
March 4 TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE & NEW FORMS OF CONFLICT:
BEYOND REGULATION?
Peter W. Singer,
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution
and Conflict in the 21st Century (Penguin, 2009)
March 11 DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY: GOVERNANCE SOLUTION OR PROBLEM?
Eric
Schmidt and Jared Cohen, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of
People, Nations and Business (Knopf, 2013)
March 18 IS POWER “DECAYING”?
IMPLICATIONS FOR DOMESTIC & GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Moisés Naím, The End of Power: From Boardrooms to
Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to
Be (Basic Books, 2013)
March 25 REGULATORY REGIMES:
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE STATE!
Daniel W.
Drezner, All Politics is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes
(Princeton University Press, 2008)
April 1 CASE STUDY:
GOVERNANCE OF THE ARCTIC
Michael Byers, Who Owns the Arctic? Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the
North (Douglas & McIntyre, 2010)
Final exam date and location: TBC