Graduate Seminar in
Globalization &
Governance
API 5106B
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Winter
2012
Instructor:
Prof. Roland Paris
Office: Desmarais Building (Room 11-121), 55 Laurier Ave. E.
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. See the course schedule (below) for response
paper topics.
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. 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.
The following
required texts have been ordered by the Agora
Bookstore (145 Besserer St.):
1.
Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World: International
Organizations in Global Politics (Cornell University Press, 2004).
2.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, A New World Order (Princeton University Press, 2005).
3.
Dani Rodrick,
The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
(W.W. Norton & Co., 2011).
Most articles listed
below are available through the University of Ottawa’s research databases. To access these readings from a University of
Ottawa-networked computer, simply click on the hyperlinks provided for each
reading. To access the readings from an
off-campus computer, 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
I. INTRODUCTION
Jan. 11 GLOBALIZATION: WHAT’S NEW?
Thomas L. Friedman, “It’s a Flat
World After All,” New York Times Magazine (April 3, 2005).
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/03DOMINANCE.html
Pankaj Ghemawat,
“Why the World Isn’t Flat,” Foreign
Policy (March 1, 2007).
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2007/02/14/why_the_world_isnt_flat?page=full
Shalendra D. Sharma, “The Many Faces of
Today's Globalization: A Survey of Recent Literature,” New Global Studies 2:2 (2008), pp. 1-27.
http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol2/iss2/art4
Jan. 18 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.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-5991.2007.00001.x/pdf
Jan Aart Scholte,
“Globalization and Governance: From Statism to Polycentrism,” CSGR Working Paper No. 130/04,
University of Warwick, U.K. (February 2004).
http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1984/1/WRAP_Scholte_wp13004.pdf
David Lake, “Rightful Rules: Authority, Order, and the
Foundations of Global Governance,” International
Studies Quarterly 54 (September 2010), pp. 687-613.
http://dss.ucsd.edu/~dlake/documents/RightfulRulesISQpublished.pdf
Linda Weiss, “The State-Augmenting Effects of Globalization,”
New Political Economy 10:3 (September 2005), pp 345-353.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563460500204233
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.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1758-5899.2009.00011.x/full
II. VARIETIES OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Jan. 25 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).
Feb. 1 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).
Feb. 8 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.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2451.00179/abstract
Sidney Tarrow, “Rooted
Cosmopolitans and Transnational Activists,” prepared for a special issue of Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia (2005).
http://government.arts.cornell.edu/assets/faculty/docs/tarrow/rooted_cosmopolitans.pdf
R. Charli Carpenter,
“Vetting the Advocacy Agenda: Network Centrality and the Paradox of Weapons
Norms,” International Organization
65:1 (February 2010), pp. 69-102.
http://resolver.scholarsportal.info/resolve/00208183/v65i0001/69_vtaancatpown
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).
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/16/revolution_u&page=full
John Villasenor,
“Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian
Governments,” Centre for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution,
Washington, D.C. (December 14, 2011).
http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2011/1214_digital_storage_villasenor.aspx
Feb. 15 MIDTERM EXAM
Feb. 22 NO MEETING (University Break)
III. POLICY CHALLENGES SPANNING THE DOMESTIC-INTERNATIONAL DIVIDE
Feb. 29 ECONOMY
Response paper: Are you convinced
by the Rodrik’s call for “customizable globalization”?
Dani Rodrick, The Globalization Paradox: Democracy
and the Future of the World Economy (W.W. Norton & Co., 2011).
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).
http://www.demos.co.uk/files/postmodernstate.pdf?1240939425
Ian Kearns and Ken Gude, The New Front Line: Security in a Changing World, IPPR Commission on
National Security, Working Paper no. 1 (2008)
http://www.ippr.org/members/download.asp?f=/ecomm/files/new_front_line.pdf&a=skip
Peter Andreas, “Redrawing the Line: Borders and
Security in the 21st Century,” International
Security 28:2 (Fall 2003), pp. 78-111.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/international_security/v028/28.2andreas.pdf
Government of Canada, “Canada’s
Cyber Security Strategy” (2010).
http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/ns/cbr/_fl/ccss-scc-eng.pdf
James Traub, “Think Again:
Failed States,” Foreign Policy 187 (July-August
2011), pp. 51-54.
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=2392808581&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=3345&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Derek Gregory, “The Everywhere War,” The Geographical Journal 177:3
(September 2011), pp. 238-250.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2011.00426.x/abstract
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).
http://www.irpp.org/choices/archive/vol9no4.pdf
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.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14650045.2010.523094
Alexander Moens, “’Lessons
Learned’ from the Security and Prosperity Partnership for Canadian-American
Relations,” American Review of Canadian
Studies 41:1 (2011), 53-64.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02722011.2010.544850
Colin Robertson, “Beyond the Border and Regulatory
Reform,” Policy Options (December
2011-January 2012), pp. 56-60.
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/dec11/robertson.pdf
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
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.
http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Verwiss/knill/projekte/envipolcon/downloads/Busch_Joergens.pdf
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.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7834674
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).
http://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/direct%20targeting.pdf
Frank Alcock, “Conflicts and Coalitions Within and Across the
ENGO Community,” Global Environmental
Politics 8: 4 (November 2008), pp. 66-91.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/global_environmental_politics/summary/v008/8.4.alcock.html
Scott Barrett and Michael Toman, “Contrasting
Future Paths for an Evolving Global Climate Regime,” Global Policy 1:1 (January 2010), pp. 64-74.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1758-5899.2009.00010.x/abstract
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.
http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199284979/baldock3e_ch21.pdf
Philipp Genschel,
“Globalization and the Welfare State: A Retrospective,” Journal of European Public Policy 11:4 (August 2004), pp. 613–636.
http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1350-1763&volume=11&issue=4&spage=613
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook 2007, chapter 4,
“Globalization and Inequality” (October 2007).
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2007/02/pdf/c4.pdf
Thomas J. Courchene, “Social
Policy and the Knowledge Economy: New Century, New Paradigm,” Policy Options (August 2004), pp. 30-36.
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/aug04/courchene.pdf
Keith Banting, “Do We Know
Where We Are Going? The New Social Policy in
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0317-0861%28200512%2931%3A4%3C421%3ADWKWWA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5
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
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/international_security/v036/36.1.schweller.html
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).
http://www.opencanada.org/features/reports/opencanada
Final exam date and
location: TBC