POLS 4902 Global Politics Capstone: The Rising Powers and Global Governance Autumn Term 2013 Seminar Time: Tuesdays 16:00-19:00 Location: VC105 Course Instructor: Gregory T. Chin Ross Building South, Department of Political Science, Office 630 Office Hours: Tues 10:30-11:30, Wed 10:03-11:30 416-736-2100, ext.88830 Course Description The global order is undergoing fundamental changes, giving rise to increasingly complex problems of international organization and global governance - including international economic inequality and instability, conflict and peace-building, global environmental change, international development assistance, and humanitarian crises and intervention. How are these problems addressed at the global level? Are the mechanisms for addressing these challenges effective and just? The course addresses the above questions, giving focused attention to two dimensions of global change, the rising powers, and global governance. We will give focused attention to the emergence of the rising states of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (the BRICS ), and their impact on global governance. When we think about global governance, we will grapple with important questions of power and authority in the global arena. Unlike in fields such as Public or Business Administration, where the focus is on public management or organizational design issues, governance is conceived broadly in this course. Building on the fields of International Relations and Comparative Politics, and specialty in international and comparative political economy, global governance research examines (1) the variety of actors, institutions, ideas, rules, and processes that contribute to the management, or ordering, more broadly, of the global reality; (2) the origins of global society and international institutional arrangements, and their evolving roles; and (3) the political, economic, social, environmental, and ethical consequences of systemic change. The course is focused on states and their interaction in international organizations and interstate relations, as rising states. Appropriate attention will also be given to rising institutions, and the formal and informal networks, and broader trans-national, supranational, and sub-national linkages that underpin the rising institutions, and contribute to the functioning of emerging international rules, norms and institutions. The course will ask whether the concepts, tools, and assumptions which have guided scholarly inquiry heretofore require modification given contemporary challenges; and if so, what should be the form of such modifications? The course will give due consideration to the social science of researching global governance.
Course Requirements: There are two written assignments for this course. The first is a linkage assignment that will ask the students to draw the analytical linkages between the readings of the first three weeks of the course. The page length will not exceed 8 pages. The second written assignment is a course paper that shall not exceed 20 pages. Each student should consult the Course Instructor in preparing a Research Paper Design. The topic and approach of your project design should be developed in keeping with the themes of the seminar. An Outline for how to produce a Research Paper Design will be provided in class. Papers must be submitted before or on the deadline. Penalty of 3 marks per day will be applied after the deadline. Please note: Papers are to be submitted to the Undergraduate Drop-Off Box at the Department of Political Science, on the 6 th Floor Ross South. Papers are not/not to be submitted to the Office of the Course Instructor. The COURSE READINGS are MANDATORY students are expected to do the course readings for every class, and (1) hand-in points to register every week, and (2) participate actively in class, while ensuring that oral participation in the class draws explicitly and systematically on the course readings. The two components of oral participation will contribute to the overall grade for oral participation. Grade Breakdown Linkage Assignment 15% Oral Participation 35% (Points to register 12%; In-class participation 23%) Paper Design 15% Course Paper 35% Course Materials: We will also use a variety of articles, conference papers, book chapters, government publications, and media accounts. The required readings are listed below. Students should read all course materials, each week. SESSIONS & READINGS Session 1 (Sept 10): Global Governance in the Shifting Global Order The Course instructor will outline the contents of the course. Part I: Perspectives on Global Governance and the Crisis 2
Session 2 (Sept 17): The Shifting Global Order 1. How to conceptualize the shifting global order? 2. Contending perspectives 3. Ontology of global order Henry A. Kissinger, Power Shifts, Survival, 52(6), December 2010, pp.205-212. Andrew Hurrell, Hegemony, Liberalism and Global Order: What Space for Would-be Great Powers?, International Affairs 82(1), January 2006, pp.1-19. Anthony Payne, The G8 in a Changing Global Economic Order, International Affairs, 84(3), May 2008, pp.519-533. Eric Helleiner, A Bretton Woods Moment: The 2007-8 Crisis and the Future of Global Finance, International Affairs, 86(3), May 2010, pp.619-636. Session 3 (Sept 24): Conceptualizing International Organization & Multilateralism * Take-home assignment to be submitted at start of class * 1. The problem of IO? 2. Leadership 3. Order? 4. Defining multilateralism Charles Kindleberger, Dominance and Leadership in the International Economy, International Studies Quarterly, 25(2), 1981, pp.242-54. John G. Ruggie, Multilateralism: The Anatomy of an Institution, International Organization, 46 (Summer 1992), pp.561-98. Robert W. Cox, Multilateralism and World Order, Review of International Studies, 1992. Session 4 (Oct 1): Gaps in the System 1. Role for civil society? 2. Power vacuum 3. Bringing-in 4. Filling the gap 3
Jan Aart Scholte, Civil Society and Democratically Accountable Global Governance, Government and Opposition, 32(9), Spring 2004, pp.211-233. Anne-Marie Slaughter, America s Edge: Power in the Networked Century, Foreign Affairs, 88, January-February 2009. G. John Ikenberry, The Rise of China and the Future of the West, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2008. Andrew Hart and Bruce Jones, How Do Rising Powers Rise?, Survival, 52(6), December 2010-January 2011, pp.63-88. Session 5 (Oct 8): Sector Perspectives 1. The Greens 2. Gender 3. Bridging civilizations 4. Currency wars? Eric Helleiner, International Political Economy and the Greens, New Political Economy, 1(1), March1996, pp.59-77. V. Spike Peterson, The Politics of Identification in the Context of Globalization, Women s Studies International Forum, 19(1-2), 1996, pp.5-15. Robert W.Cox, Thinking about Civilizations, Review of International Studies, 26(5), 2000, pp.217-234. Barry Eichengreen, Mr. Bernanke Goes War, The National Interest, January-February 2011. Session 6 (Oct 15): The United States and Multilateralism 1. Multilateralism as weakness 2. Multilateralism as restrained power 3. Leadership in decline? 4. R2P Misguided project? Robert Kagan, Power and Weakness, Policy Review, 113, June-July 2002, pp.5-23. 4
G. John Ikenberry, Is American Multilateralism in Decline?, Perspectives on Politics, 1(3), 2003, pp.533-550. Barack Obama, Renewing American Leadership, Foreign Affairs, 87(4), July-August 2007. John Mearsheimer, Imperial by Design, The National Interest, January-February 2011. Part II: Global Architecture in Crisis Session 7 (Oct 22): Formal & Informal Institutions 1. Is the UN unfixable? 2. International monetary reform 3. Solution as the new problem? 4. Way out? Mark Balloch Brown, Can the UN be Reformed?, Global Governance, 14(1), January- March 2008, pp.1-12. Benjamin Cohen, The Future of Reserve Currencies, Finance and Development, 46(3), September 2009, pp.26-29. Online: <http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2009/09/pdf/cohen.pdf> Ngaire Woods, Global Governance after the Global Financial Crisis: A New Multilateralism or the Last Gasp of the Great Powers?, Global Policy, 1(1), 2010, pp.52-63. Geoffrey Garrett, G2 in G20: China, the United States and the World after the Global Financial Crisis, Global Policy, 1(1), January 2010, pp.29-39. Session 8 (Oct 29): Political Economy of the Rising States 1. Amassing material power 2. State-led capitalism? 3. Impact of the BRICS on the global Brad Sester, The New Westphalian International Financial System?, Journal of International Affairs, 62(1), Fall/Winter 2008, pp.17-34. Gregory Chin and Eric Helleiner, China as a Creditor: International Financial Power?, Journal of International Affairs, Fall/Winter 2008, pp.87-102. 5
Daniel Drezner, Sovereign Wealth Funds and the (in)security of Global Finance, Journal of International Affairs, Fall/Winter 2008, pp.115-130. Anthony D Costa, Economic Nationalism in Motion: Steel, Auto and Software Industries in India, Review of International Political Economy, 16(4), 2009, pp.620-648. Manmohan Agarwal, Hany Besada and Lyal White, Social Challenges and Progress in IBSA, South African Journal of International Affairs, 17(3), 2010. Session 9 (Nov 5): Paper Design Session 10 (Nov 12): New Economic Diplomacy 1. Turning economic weight into political influence 2. Comparing strengths and limitations Andrew Hurrell, Lula s Brazil: A Rising Power but Going Where?, Current History, February 2008, pp.51-57. Marcel Fortuna Biato, When Emerging Markets Lead the Way, The Globalist, October 5, 2009. Free online access: <http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?storyid=8034> Gregory Chin and Richard Stubbs, China, Regional Institution-Building, and the China- ASEAN Free Trade Area, Review of International Political Economy (forthcoming 2011). Amrita Narlikar, India s Rise to Power: Where Does East Africa Fit In?, Review of African Political Economy, 37 (126), December 2010, pp. 451-464. Brendan Vickers, Africa and the Rising Powers: Bargaining for the Marginalized Many, International Affairs, 89(3), May 2013, pp.673-693. Session 11 (Nov 19): Rising States, Rising Donors 1. Conceptualizing the transition 2. Unanticipated responses 3. Impact on the vulnerable 6
Gregory Chin and Fahimul Quadir, Introduction: Rising States, Rising Donors and the Global Aid Regime, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012, pp.493-506. Cristina Inoue and Alcides Vaz, Brazil as Southern Donor : Beyond Hierarchy and National Interests in Development Cooperation?, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012, pp.507-534. Brendan Vickers, Towards a New Aid Paradigm: South Africa as African Development Partner, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012, pp.5535-556. Sachin Chaturvedi, India s Development Partnership: Key Policy Shifts and Institutional Evolution, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012, pp.557-578. Gregory Chin, China as a Net Donor : Tracking Dollars and Sense, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012, pp.579-604. Recommended reading: N. McCulloch, A. Schmidt, and A. Summer, The Global Financial Crisis, Developing Countries and Policy Responses, IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 7.1, March 2009. Free online access: <http://www.ids.ac.uk/index.cfm?objectid=632e614c-5056-8171- 7BC41465293655A4> N. Hossain, Voices of the Poor in the Current Crises, IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 7.3, March 2009. Free online access: <http://www.ids.ac.uk/index.cfm?objectid=6323060d-5056-8171- 7B3FD11536632EF8> Session 12 (Nov 26): The Way Forward 1. New ideas, different priorities, different agenda 2. More fractured system? 3. Unresolved tensions, the old and the rising Timothy Shaw, Andrew Cooper and Agata Antkiewicz, Global and/or Regional Development at the Start of the 21 st Century: China, India and (South) Africa, Third World Quarterly, 28(7), 2007, pp.1255-1270. Timothy Shaw, Andrew Cooper and Gregory Chin, Emerging Powers and Africa: Implications for/from Global Governance, Politikon, 36(1), April 2009, pp.27-44. 7
Gregory Chin and Ramesh Thakur, Will China Change the Rules of Global Order?, The Washington Quarterly, 33(4), October 2010, pp.119-138. Gregory Chin, Remaking the Architecture: Emerging Powers, Self-Insuring and Regional Insulation, International Affairs, 86(3), May 2010 *** Final paper due Tues December 3, 2012*** Please note: Papers are to be submitted to the Undergraduate Drop-Off Box at the Department of Political Science, on the 6 th Floor Ross South. Papers are not/not to be submitted to the Office of the Course Instructor. 8