Political Science 959 International Organizations Spring 2016

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1 Professor Lisa Martin North Hall Office hours Mondays 11-1 Political Science 959 International Organizations Spring 2016 In this course, we will read, discuss, and engage the modern literature on international institutions, regimes, and organizations. The focus will be on intergovernmental institutions and agreements. International politics is increasingly institutionalized in all issue-areas. Understanding the dynamics of international conflict and cooperation therefore requires that we understand the sources and consequences of institutionalization. The course will be theory-driven, with the first few weeks devoted to studying theoretical frameworks used by international relations scholars to understand institutions. Then we will move into empirical applications of these theories. We will address most of the major issue-areas in international politics, including political economy, security, and environmental issues. My goal in this course is to encourage you to develop your own ideas for research and writing. To that end, the last week of class is set aside for presentation of research proposals by students. The assignments for the course are also designed to move you toward identifying researchable topics for study, preparing a research proposal, and writing a research paper. Readings All of the assigned articles should be easily accessible on line. Please let me know if you have any problems finding the assigned readings. You may find it useful to purchase the following 7 books. These books have been ordered at the University Bookstore. They should also be easy to purchase online, and have been requested for reserve. After Hegemony Keohane PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2005 The International Monetary Fund in the Global Economy Copelovitch CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2010 Delegation and Agency in International Organizations Hawkins et al. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2006 Rules for the World Barnett and Finnemore CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

2 The Company States Keep Julia Gray Cambridge University Press 2013 The Political Economy of the United Nations Security Council James Raymond Vreeland and Axel Dreher Cambridge University Press 2014 Controlling Institutions Randall W. Stone Cambridge University Press 2011 Requirements Discussion questions will be posted on by the Thursday before class. Students will be asked to select two questions for which they will take responsibility for beginning the discussion. Students should come to class having completed the readings and being prepared to participate fully in discussion. Most weeks during the semester, we will have a distinguished outside speaker present a working paper to us via Skype. You will be asked to serve as a discussant on a working paper once or twice (depending on enrollment). 2 page identification of research topic due March page research design paper due April 11 Research paper due May 9 * * * Course schedule and readings January 25 Introduction February 1 Background and general theory Robert Keohane, After Hegemony (1984, 2005), chps. 1, 4-7 (pp. 5-17, ) Paul Milgrom, Douglass North, and Barry Weingast The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade. Economics and Politics 2(1): 1-23 James Fearon Bargaining, Enforcement, and International Cooperation. International Organization 52(2):

3 Roland Vaubel A Public Choice Approach to International Organizations. Public Choice 51: Lisa Martin and Beth Simmons Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions. International Organization 52(4): February 8 Theoretical developments Leslie Johns A Servant of Two Masters: Communication and the Selection of International Bureaucrats. IO 61(1): Jon Pevehouse and Bruce Russett Democratic International Governmental Organizations Promote Peace. IO 60(4): Beth A. Simmons Compliance with International Agreements. Annual Review of Political Science 1: Xinyuan Dai Why Comply? The Domestic Constituency Mechanism. International Organization 59(2): Lisa L. Martin Against Compliance, in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art, Jeffrey L. Dunoff and Mark A. Pollack, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press): Wade M. Cole Mind the Gap: State Capacity and the Implementation of Human Rights Treaties. International Organization 69(2): Presentation by Daniella Donno, University of Pittsburgh, human rights commitments in EU agreements February 15 Human rights Emilie Hafner-Burton Trading Human Rights: How Preferential Trade Agreements Influence Government Repression. IO 59(3): James Vreeland Political Institutions and Human Rights: Why Dictatorships Enter into the United Nations Convention Against Torture. International Organization 62(1):

4 Yonatan Lupu The Informative Power of Treaty Commitment: Using the Spatial Model to Address Selection Effects. American Journal of Political Science 57(4): Yonatan Lupu Best Evidence: The Role of Information in Domestic Judicial Enforcement of International Human Rights Agreements. International Organization 67(3): Laurence R. Helfer and Erik Voeten International Courts as Agents of Legal Change: Evidence from LGBT Rights in Europe. International Organization 68(1): Presentation by Stephen Chaudoin, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, contestation in the ICC February 22 Delegation models Roland Vaubel Principal-Agent Problems in International Organizations. Review of International Organizations 1(2): Hawkins et. al, chapters 1 and 5 Songying Fang and Randall Stone International Organizations as Policy Advisors. International Organization 66(4): Daniel L. Nielson and Michael J. Tierney Delegation to International Organizations: Agency Theory and World Bank Environmental Reform. IO 57(2) Tana Johnson and Johannes Urpelainen International Bureaucrats and the Formation of Intergovernmental Organizations: Institutional Design Discretion Sweetens the Pot. International Organization 68(1): Presentation by Oliver Westerwinter, University of St. Gallen, informal governance in international relations February 29 The United Nations Security Council Erik Voeten Outside Options and the Logic of Security Council Action. APSR 95(4): Erik Voeten The Political Origins of the UN Security Council s Ability to Legitimize the Use of Force. IO 59(3):

5 Songying Fang, The Informational Role of International Institutions and Domestic Politics AJPS 52(2): James Raymond Vreeland and Axel Dreher The Political Economy of the United Nations Security Council. (New York: Cambridge University Press), chps. 1, 3, and 5 Presentation by Songying Fang, Rice University, IO arbitration March 7 International trade Christina L. Davis International Institutions and Issue Linkage: Building Support for Agricultural Trade Liberalization. APSR 98(1): Arvind Subramanian and Shang-Jin Wei The WTO Promotes Trade, Strongly but Unevenly. Journal of International Economics 72(1): B. Peter Rosendorff Stability and Rigidity: Politics and Design of the WTO s Dispute Settlement Procedure. APSR 99(3): Leslie Johns and Krzysztof Pelc Who Gets to Be in the Room? Manipulating Participation in WTO Disputes. International Organization 68(3): Michael M. Bechtel and Thomas Sattler What Is Litigation in the World Trade Organization Worth? International Organization 69(2): Presentation by Soo Yeon Kim, National University of Singapore, texts in preferential trade agreements March 14 International financial institutions Research topic due Mark S. Copelovitch The International Monetary Fund in the Global Economy: Banks, Bonds, and Bailouts. Cambridge University Press, chps. 1-3 Randall W. Stone Controlling Institutions: International Organizations and the Global Economy (New York: Cambridge University Press), chps. 2, 4, 9 5

6 James R. Vreeland Foreign Aid and Global Governance: Buying Bretton Woods the Swiss Bloc Case. Review of International Organizations 6(3-4): Stephen C. Nelson Playing Favorites: How Shared Beliefs Shape the IMF s Lending Decisions. International Organization 68(2): Presentation by Randall Stone, University of Rochester, MNC influence on World Bank projects March 28 Institutional design Michael Gilligan Is There a Broader-Deeper Tradeoff in International Multilateral Agreements? IO 58(3): Daniel J. Blake Thinking Ahead: Government Time Horizons and the Legalization of International Investment Agreements. International Organization 67(4): Jonas Tallberg et al Explaining the Transnational Design of International Organizations. International Organization 68(4): David H. Bearce, Cody D. Eldredge, and Brandy J. Joliff Do Finite Duration Provisions Reduce International Bargaining Delay? International Organization 69(1): Julia Gray The Company States Keep: International Economic Organizations and Investor Perceptions (New York: Cambridge University Press), chps. 2 and 3 Presentation by Leslie Johns, UCLA, design of enforcement mechanisms April 4 Socialization Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics, chps. 1-2 Alastair Iain Johnston Treating International Institutions as Social Environments. ISQ 45(3) 6

7 Frank Schimmelfennig Strategic Calculation and International Socialization: Membership Incentives, Party Constellations, and Sustained Compliance in Central and Eastern Europe. IO 59(4): Liesbet Hooghe Several Roads Lead to International Norms, but Few via International Socialization: A Case Study of the European Commission. IO 59(4): David H. Bearce and Stacy Bondanella Intergovernmental Organizations, Socialization, and Member-State Interest Convergence. IO 61(1): Presentation by Christina Davis, Princeton University, IO membership politics April 11 Alliances and conflict Research Design due Virginia Page Fortna Scraps of Paper? Agreements and the Durability of Peace. IO 57(2): Brett Ashley Leeds Do Military Alliances Deter Aggression? The Influence of Military Alliances on the Initiation of Militarized Interstate Disputes. AJPS 47(3): Alexandra Gheciu, Security Institutions as Agents of Socialization? NATO and the New Europe IO 59(4): Brian C. Rathbun Before Hegemony: Generalized Trust and the Creation and Design of International Security Organizations. International Organization 65(2): Michaela Mattes Reputation, Symmetry, and Alliance Design. International Organization 66(4): Presentation by Peter Rosendorff, NYU, how PTAs and BITs influence leader survival April 18 Environmental issues Ronald Mitchell Regime Design Matters: Intentional Oil Pollution and Treaty Compliance. International Organization 48(3):

8 Evan J. Ringquist and Tatiana Kostadinova Assessing the Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements: The Case of the 1985 Helsinki Protocol. AJPS 49(1): Matthew Potoski and Aseem Prakash Green Clubs and Voluntary Governance: ISO and Firms Regulatory Compliance. AJPS 49(2): Aseem Prakash and Matthew Potoski Racing to the Bottom? Trade, Environmental Governance, and ISO AJPS 50(2): Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and Paul R. Hensel International Institutions and Compliance with Agreements. AJPS 51(4): Thomas Bernauer et al Is there a Depth versus Participation Dilemma in International Cooperation? Review of International Organizations Presentation by Robert Keohane, Princeton University, organizational sociology and climate organizations April 25 No class: work on paper May 2 Student presentation of research designs May 9 Paper due 8