International Organization Syllabus (Spring 2019)

UPDATED 4/17/2019 Lewis & Clark College IA 211: International Organization Spring 2019 Howard Hall 124 Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays 11:30pm-12:30pm Instructor 
 Professor Kyle Lascurettes Office: Howard Hall 312 Office Hours: by appointment (default=15 min slots, but feel free to schedule 2 in a row)
 Email: klascurettes@lclark.edu (but the best way of communicating with me is through making an appointment)
 Phone: x7746 This course explores the role international organizations (IOs) play in world politics. The central questions we will ask about particular organizations and IOs in general include: Why were they created? What is their mission today and how has that mission changed over time? What tools of influence do IOs have to accomplish their goals and, conversely, what are the limitations to their effectiveness? What are the major challenges facing IOs today? We begin by briefly examining the historical development of IOs, focusing in particular on the origins and evolution of the United Nations system. We then move on to surveying some distinct theoretical perspectives that offer conflicting interpretations of the importance and utility of IOs in international affairs. Specifically, we examine two questions: 1) why would states want to set up these organizations and surrender sovereignty to them in the first place? 2) How do organizations then behave and (potentially) evolve once they are set up? We survey a number of different organizations in this section of the course, though with a distinct focus on the UN Security Council. The third section focuses on both nongovernmental institutions as well as global institutions in the realm of international political economy (IPE), while the fourth and final section looks briefly at international courts and at regional IOs in both economics and security.
 
 
 International Organization 1 Learning Objectives: In this course, students will develop: • a familiarity with the politics, processes and structures of the major global intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and regional organizations of the postwar international system. • an understanding of international relations theories and their applicability to the founding and functioning of formal international organizations. • a foundation of knowledge about the history of IOs in the modern states system. • the analytic skills to apply theoretical logic to contemporary problems and debates in and surrounding international organizations. • knowledge about regions of the world other than the United States (through reading, writing, conversation, presentation and/or first-hand experiences). Topics of study include historical experience, cultural traditions, past and current social and economic realities, or transnational issues (thus fulfilling the International Studies General Education requirement).
 
 Required Materials for Purchase (also available in ebook format and/or on reserve at Watzek) 1) Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics (Cornell University Press, 2004). 2) Charli Carpenter, “Lost” Causes: Agenda Vetting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security (Cornell University Press, 2014). 3) Daniel W. Drezner, All Politics is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes (Princeton University Press, 2008). 4) Alexander Thompson, Channels of Power: The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq (Cornell University Press, 2009). 5) You must also purchase a Statecraft license for $35.00. See requirement #2 below for further instructions.
 
 OPTIONAL BOOK (not required, but good for background): Mark Mazower, Governing the World: The Rise and Fall of an Idea, 1815 to the Present (Penguin Press, 2012/3). 
 International Organization 2 Requirements 1. Sign up for and use our Google Classroom page. This page will be your central resource for downloading course readings and finding course announcements and assignments. You can access the page here. The code for joining is m08908b 
 2. Sign up for and participate in the simulation. Starting in our very first week and second class, you will participate in a simulation called Statecraft. Before the end of the day on Thursday, January 24th, you must go to this website to sign up. You will be prompted to register using our course simulation code, Lascurettes2019, take a foreign policy aptitude survey and make a $35.00 payment. All of these things must be done no later than the end of Thursday, January 24th. The aptitude survey will divide you into country teams. From there on out, you and your teammates will seek to cooperate with and/or compete against other country teams on a variety of goals. You will sit with your teammates in class throughout the simulation, regardless of whether or not it is a “Statecraft day.” The simulation will last for 7-11 weeks (I know how long, you do not). You are expected to collaborate with your team outside of class. That said, you will also be given some class time—approximately 30 minutes each Friday—to work together and interact with other countries while in class. You will receive both participation and performance grades for the simulation. Within the confines of the simulation, you will also take two online quizzes and write short weekly memos reflecting on your Statecraft experiences. 3. Attend. Students are allowed three (3) class absences, no questions asked, for excused or unexcused reasons. After that, subsequent absences for either excused or unexcused reasons will have a significant and negative impact on your class engagement grade. If you miss a journal collection (see below) it will automatically count as your dropped collection grade. The point: use your freebies wisely, and don’t miss class without good reason. 4. Prepare and participate. You must do the required readings before the designated class sessions and come in prepared to discuss the topic and readings. Note also that I expect you to bring each day’s readings with you to class. As the accompanying key to Your final participation/attendance grade = participation score - (# of absences above 2 x 2.5) PARTICIPATION SCORE KEY (on a 100-point scale): 75 = stone cold silence all semester unless directly coerced into participating 78 = mostly stone cold silence, but with rare deviations 82 = occasionally speaks up 85 = semi-regular participant (speaks up on average once per week) 88 = regular participant (speaks up on average once each class) 92 = frequent participant or unusually thoughtful regular participant 96 = frequent and unusually thoughtful participant 100 = superior participant (usually only one per class) International Organization 3 participation scores indicates, your engagement grade is not a “gimme,” and requires you to work diligently to earn it just like every other component of your grade. How much should you participate, you ask? A good rule of thumb: if you aren’t speaking up in class discussions at least two times per week, you are probably not participating enough. 5. Keep an IO journal. You are required to keep a journal in which you will respond to some of the key readings for our class. This journal must be separate from your class notebook, as I will often collect and hold it for extended periods of time during and after class. The subject you will write on varies from class to class, but a complete listing of the daily journal prompts is available at the end of this syllabus and organized by class session. Each entry should be between a few sentences and a paragraph long, and you should complete them before the designated class session. While they should demonstrate thoughtfulness and effort, they need not take you longer than 10-15 minutes to complete (after doing the reading). Journals will be collected at random, typically (but not necessarily always) at the beginning or the end of class. You will receive no credit for days on which your journal is called but you are absent or do not immediately submit your journal.1 You cannot make up these misses. You cannot turn in your journal on days when you are not called. I will, however, drop your lowest journal grade. I will probably collect your journal about 8-10 times. JOURNAL GRADING KEY: 0= you aren’t there for journal collection/you hand in nothing 1= you are missing more than 2 required entries 3= you are missing 1-2 required entries 4= your journal is up to date 5= your journal is up to date and demonstrates consistent thoughtfulness and effort 6. Profile an international organization. For this assignment, you will write a brief profile of a particular organization of your choice that we have not examined in detail in class. Your profile will briefly discuss the origins and evolution of the organization before highlighting a particular issue or challenge it faces today, and may resemble an article you would read in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy or The Economist. By March 10th, you must submit a short paragraph informing me of the organization you have chosen and, briefly, why you have chosen it. By April 1st, you will submit an annotated bibliography of sources for your profile. Your final IO profile is due online (via Google Classroom) by 11:59pm on Friday, 4/19. Extensions will not be granted, and your paper will be marked down ⅓ letter grade for each 24 hours it is late (e.g. B to B-). More details to come on this assignment soon. [NOTE: Organizations you cannot choose: the UN (generally), UNGA or UNSC; the IMF, World Bank or WTO; the European Union; NATO; NAFTA; the International Criminal Court, or any defunct IO (e.g. League of Nations, League of Extraordinary Gentleman, etc.)]. 1 There are absolutely no exceptions to this policy, so please do not ask. International Organization 4 7. Take the midterm and final exam. All students must take the exams at the scheduled times. The final exam will be cumulative, thus covering material from the entire course (though it will focus primarily on material from the second half). All assigned readings and class lectures and discussions are fair game for these exams. 8. Lead a debate. In the final weeks of the term, we will have four organized in-class debates. Each of you will be assigned to “lead” a side in one of these debates (though everyone will participate in some way in each debate). More details to come on what I will expect from you in these debates, particularly for the designated leaders. 9. Act with honor. I have no tolerance for academic dishonesty. Neither should you. Do your own work and don’t cheat. If I catch you cheating, you will fail the assignment and, possibly, the course. Note that I consider the use of notes/materials from prior iterations of the course to be cheating. Said notes/materials would not help you much anyway. 10. Come to office hours when you have questions. I wholeheartedly encourage you to come chat with me about anything: assignments, course readings and ideas, your performance in class, current events, thesis ideas, etc. To come to office hours, you must schedule appointments online using this link and your LC Google account.^ Appointment availability will vary by day and week, but I will generally have slots available on MWF in the morning and early afternoon. By default, appointment slots are for 15 minutes. If you think you will need longer than 15 minutes, reserve consecutive slots. 
 ^IMPORTANT: to make an appointment, you must make sure that your google account/calendar is set to the correct PST timezone. If it isn’t your appointment will show up at an odd time in my calendar and I will cancel or ignore it. 
 11. Buy a notebook. After the first day of class, laptops and other electronic devices are not permitted for use in this course. Buy a notebook for “regular order” class sessions. The exception is for Statecraft simulation days, when each country team will need at least one device to submit their decisions (though I would recommend everyone who has a laptop or tablet to bring it on Statecraft days). 
 Grading Statecraft Quizzes: 2% Statecraft Memos: 8% Statecraft Performance: 10%
 IO Journal: 10% Class Engagement: 10% Midterm (3/6): 15% Debate Performance: 5% IO Profile (due 11/27): 20% Final Exam (5/8): 20% The Lascurettian Grading Scale™ shall be in effect for individual assignments and final grades. International Organization 5  Lascurettian Grading Scale Number = letter to number conversion (Range = number to letter conversion) A 96 (94-98) A- 92 (90-93) B+ 88 (87-89) B 85 (84-86) B- 82 (80-83) C+ 78 (77-79) C 75 (74-76) C- 72 (70-73) D+ 68 (67-69) D 65 (64-66)
 D- 62 (60-63)
 F 55 (00-59) Schedule 
 Purple writing = special instructions for reading Red writing = course schedule, assignment or exam alert Pink writing = Statecraft simulation alert Yellow highlighting = reading is optional I. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN HISTORY Week 1: BEGINNINGS (Wednesday, 1/23) 1. Introduction (Friday, 1/25) 2. Statecraft Setup (Turn 0) • read the Statecraft manual (get from our Classroom page), sign up for the simulation, and take the foreign policy aptitude survey. ———————————————————————————————————— Week 2: THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM (Monday, 1/28) 3. Before the UN: Unions, Concerts, Leagues (33 pages of reading) • Margaret P. Karns, Karen A. Mingst and Kendall W. Stiles, International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance (2015), chapter 3. • Optional: Mazower, Prologue and chapters 3-4 (pp. 1-12, 65-115). [OPTIONAL BOOK; hereafter “Mazower”]. (1/29) Statecraft: Turn 0 ends at 8pm; Turn 1 begins at 10pm (Wednesday, 1/30) 4. From League of Nations to United Nations (I) (25 pages) • Leo Gross, “The Charter of the United Nations and the Lodge Reservations,” The American Journal of International Law (1947). International Organization 6 • Mazower, chapters 5-6 (pp. 115-188). (Friday, 2/1) 5. United Nations II (50 pages) and some time for Statecraft Turn 1 [major project bidding deadline at 5pm] • Karns, Mingst and Stiles, pp. 109-159. • Mazower, chapters 8-11 (pp. 214-342). ———————————————————————————————————— II. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN THEORY Week 3: THREE APPROACHES TO IOs (Monday, 2/4) 6. IOs as Useful: The Functional/Institutional Approach (32 pages) • Robert O. Keohane, “The Demand for International Regimes,” International Organization (1982). • HELPFUL BUT OPTIONAL: Robert O. Keohane, “International Institutions: Can Interdependence Work?” Foreign Policy (1998). • Kenneth Abbot and Duncan Snidal, “Why States Act through Formal Organizations,” Journal of Conflict Resolution (1998). (2/5) Statecraft: Turn 1 ends at 8pm; Turn 2 begins at 10pm (Wednesday, 2/6) 7. IOs as Useless: The Skeptical/Realist Approach (46 pages) • John J. Mearsheimer, “The False Promise of International Institutions,” International Security (1994/95), pp. 5-26; 37-47 only. • Keohane and Lisa Martin, “The Promise of Institutional Theory,” International Security (1995). • Mearsheimer’s Reply, pp. 85-87 only. (Friday, 2/8) 8. IOs as Transformative: The Transformational/Constructivist Approach (~30 pages) and some time for Statecraft Turn 2 [major project bidding deadline at 5pm] • Alexander Wendt, “Constructing International Politics,” International Security (1995). • Mearsheimer’s Reply, pp. 90-92 only. • Ian Hurd, “Legitimacy, Power, and the Symbolic Life of the UN Security Council,” Global Governance (2002). ———————————————————————————————————— Week 4: THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL IN FOCUS (Monday, 2/11) 9. Functionalism II: Why Do Powerful States Bother with the UNSC? (69 pages) • Alexander Thompson, Channels of Power: The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq (2009), chapters 2-3 [REQUIRED BOOK]. International Organization 7 (2/12) Statecraft: Turn 2 ends at 8pm; Turn 3 begins at 10pm (Wednesday, 2/13) 10. Case Study: UNSC, USA and the (2003) Iraq War (70 pages) • Thompson, chapters 5-6. (Friday, 2/15) 11. UNSC, USA and the Iraq War II: Another Look (32 pages) and some time for Statecraft Turn 3 [major project bidding deadline at 5pm] • Thompson, chapter 7. • Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wolhforth, World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy (2008), chapter 5. ———————————————————————————————————— Week 5: ORGANIZATIONS AND THE GREAT POWERS (Monday, 2/18) Midterm exam review guide distributed. 12. IOs as Less-Than-Useful: Realism II (64 pages) • Daniel W. Drezner, All Politics is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes (2007), pp. 1-13; 32-58; 63-88 [REQUIRED BOOK].
 (2/19) Statecraft: Turn 3 ends at 8pm; Turn 4 begins at 10pm (Wednesday, 2/20) 13. Great Powers and Global Governance of the Internet (26 pages) • Drezner, chapter 4. (Friday, 2/22) 14. Great Powers and GMO Governance (33 pages) and some time for Statecraft Turn 4 [major project bidding deadline at 5pm] • Drezner, chapter 6 and pp. 213-220. ———————————————————————————————————— Week 6: ORGANIZATIONS AS BUREAUCRACIES (Monday, 2/25) 15. IOs as Autonomous: Constructivism II (44 pages) • Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World: International Organizations In Global Politics, chapters 2 and 6 [REQUIRED BOOK]. (2/26) Statecraft: Turn 4 ends at 8pm; Turn 5 begins at 10pm (Wednesday, 2/27) 16. SNOW DAY! 
 (Friday, 3/1) 17. IOs and Refugees (25 pages) and some time for Statecraft Turn 5 [major project bidding deadline at 5pm] • Barnett and Finnemore, chapter 4. International Organization 8 ———————————————————————————————————— Week 7: TESTS AND TRANSITIONS (Monday, 3/4) 18. IOs and Humanitarian Intervention (44 pages) • Barnett and Finnemore, chapter 5. • Alan J. Kuperman, “Rethinking the Responsibility to Protect,” The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations (2009). • Mazower, chapter 13 (pp. 378-405). III. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN ACTIVISM AND ECONOMICS (3/5) Statecraft: Turn 5 ends at 8pm; Turn 6 begins at 10pm (Wednesday, 3/6) 19. MIDTERM (Friday, 3/8) 20. PAPER TOPIC WORKSHOP and some time for Statecraft Turn 6 [major project bidding deadline at 5pm] ***What IO will you focus on for your profile this semester? Your brief proposal is due no later than Sunday, 3/10 by 11:59pm on Google Classroom*** ———————————————————————————————————— Week 8: NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (Monday, 3/11) 21. NGOs I: History, Advocacy Networks and Agenda Setting (36 pages) • Charli Carpenter, “Lost” Causes: Agenda Vetting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security (2014), chapters 2-3 [REQUIRED BOOK, but I will also make available as PDFs on Classroom page]. (3/12) Statecraft: Turn 6 ends at 8pm; Turn 7 begins at 10pm (Wednesday, 3/13) 22. NGOs II: Case Studies! Robots! Male Circumcision! (59 pages) • Carpenter, chapters 5 and 6 [REQUIRED BOOK, but I will also make available as PDFs on Classroom page]. (Friday, 3/15) 23. NGOs III: Reasons for Skepticism? (~60 pages of reading/skimming) plus some time for Statecraft Turn 7 [major project bidding deadline at 5pm] International Organization 9 • READ Alexander Cooley and James Ron,“The NGO Scramble,” International Security (2002). • SKIM Drezner, chapter 7. ———————————————————————————————————— Week 9: BRETTON WOODS I (Monday, 3/18) 24. WTO I (30 pages) • Ian Hurd, “ The World Trade Organization” from his International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice (3rd edition, 2018), pp. 109-137. (3/19) Statecraft: Turn 7 ends at 8pm; if simulation continues, Turn 8 begins at 10pm (Wednesday, 3/20) 25. WTO II • Paul Blustein, “The Nine-Day Misadventure of the Most Favored Nations: How the WTO’s Doha Round Negotiations Went Awry in July 2008,” The Brookings Institution. • “The Looming Global Trade War” from The Economist (January 29, 2019). (Friday, 3/22) 26. Catchup or TBD and some time for ??Statecraft Turn 8?? [major project bidding deadline at 5pm] 
 ***If simulation is still going, turn 8 will end early, at 8pm on Friday 3/22. If the simulation continues, the system will pause and resume after break (Tuesday 4/2 at 10pm)*** ———————————————————————————————————— SPRING BREAK, 3/23-3/31 ———————————————————————————————————— Week 10: BRETTON WOODS II (Monday, 4/1) 27. International Monetary Fund (27 pages plus skimming) • READ Barnett and Finnemore, chapter 3. • SKIM Drezner, chapter 5. • Mazower, chapter 12 (pp. 343-377). ***An annotated bibliography for your IO profile detailing at least 8 sources is due no later than 11:59pm on Monday, 4/1 via Google Classroom*** (4/2) If simulation continues, Statecraft Turn 9 begins at 10pm (Wednesday, 4/3) 28. World Bank International Organization 10 • Catherine Weaver, Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform (2008), SKIM chapter 1, READ chapter 3 (pp. 1-18; 44-91). • David Miliband, “A Battle Plan for the World Bank,” Foreign Affairs (2019). (Friday, 4/5) 29. The Global Financial Crisis: Did the System “Work”? (45 pages) and some time for ??Statecraft Turn 9?? [major project bidding deadline at 5pm] • Jakob Vestergaard and Robert Wade, “The Governance Response to the Great Recession: The “Success” of the G20,” Journal of Economic Issues (2012). • Daniel W. Drezner, “The System Worked: Global Economic Governance During the Great Recession,” World Politics (2014). ———————————————————————————————————— IV. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN COURTS AND REGIONS Week 11: ECONOMIC REGIONALISM (Monday, 4/8) 30. Regional Economic Institutions (44 pages) • Karns and Mingst, pp. 161-169. • Lloyd Gruber, “Power Politics and the Free Trade Bandwagon,” Comparative Political Studies (2001). (4/9) Statecraft: Turn 9 and the simulation ended at 8pm. (Wednesday, 4/10) 31. The European Union in Focus (55 pages) • Kathleen R. McNamara, “Imaginary Europe: The Euro as a Symbol and Practice,” in Giovanni Moro, ed., The Single Currency and European Citizenship: Unveiling the Other Side of the Coin (2013), pp. 22-35. • Sebastian Rosato, “Europe’s Troubles: Power Politics and the State of the European Project,” International Security (2011), pp. 45-87. (Friday, 4/12) 32. CLASS CANCELLED; INSTRUCTOR CONTRACTS THE PLAGUE ———————————————————————————————————— Week 12: THE INTERNATIONAL JUDICIARY (Monday, 4/15) 33. DEBATE: Will the European Union soon fall apart? (25 pages) • assortment of short readings (“EU Debate Readings” PDF) on Google Classroom. • OPTIONAL: “Correspondence: Debating the Sources and Prospects of European Integration,” International Security (2012), pp. 178-199. International Organization 11 (4/16) Statecraft: Turn 10 ends at 8pm; if simulation continues, Turn 11 begins at 8pm (Wednesday, 4/17) 34. The Evolution of International Courts (48 pages) • Karen J. Alter, The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights (2014), chapter 4. (Friday, 4/19) ??Statecraft Turn 11?? Plan to meet in your country groups on your own this week [major project bidding deadline at 5pm] NO CLASS: We will all attend (or participate in) the Festival of Scholars • The Festival of Scholars is a campus-wide celebration of student research. It is an opportunity to discuss research, to exhibit, perform, or appreciate art, and to cross disciplinary boundaries. Classes are cancelled but you are required to participate, either by presenting your work or by attending presentations by your fellow students. *** Your IO Profile paper is due on Google Classroom by 11:59pm on 4/21 *** ———————————————————————————————————— Week 13: SECURITY REGIONALISM (Monday, 4/22) 35. DEBATE: Should the United States join the International Criminal Court? (45 pages) • assortment of short readings (“ICC Reader” PDF) on Google Classroom. (Wednesday, 4/24) Final exam review guide distributed. 36. Regional Security Institutions and NATO in Focus (36 pages) • Celeste A. Wallander, “Institutional Assets and Adaptability: NATO After the Cold War,” International Organization (2000). • Ivo H. Daalder and James G. Stavridis, “NATO’s Victory in Libya: The Right Way to Run an Intervention,” Foreign Affairs (2012). • OPTIONAL: Andrew Kydd, “Trust Building, Trust Breaking: The Dilemma of NATO Enlargement,” International Organization (2001). (Friday, 4/26)
 37. DEBATE: Did NATO expansion cause a new Cold War? (23 pages) • John J. Mearsheimer, “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault: The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin,” Foreign Affairs (2014). • Michael McFaul, Stephen Sestanovich, John J. Mearsheimer, “Faulty Powers: Who Started the Ukraine Crisis?” Foreign Affairs (2014). ———————————————————————————————————— International Organization 12 Week 14: THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION(S) (Monday, 4/29) COURSE EVALUATIONS 38. Conclusions and Statecraft Reflections • No new reading, but bring electronic devices for course evaluations!
 (Wednesday, 5/1) 39. DEBATE: Is the western-led institutional order going away, or here to stay? (25 pages) • G. John Ikenberry, “The Rise of China and the Future of the West: Can the Liberal System Survive?” Foreign Affairs (2008). • Stewart Patrick, “Irresponsible Stakeholders? The Difficulty of Integrating Rising Powers,” Foreign Affairs (2010). ———————————————————————————————————— Week 15: TIME TO MEET YOUR MAKER (Wednesday, 5/8) 40. FINAL EXAM • Wednesday, 5/8, 1pm-4pm. • You must take the final exam with your section of the class at the time designated by the college. I am not allowed to make any exceptions. International Organization 13 ———————————————————————————————————— Journal Topics
 1. For your first entry, tell me where you’re from, what about IA most interests you, and why you’re taking this class. 2. Make sure your name is printed on the front of your blue book/journal. 3. If you had to highlight the 2 or 3 most important developments in the history of global governance prior to the founding of the United Nations, what would you focus upon? Why? 4. Why do you believe the League of Nations failed where the UN succeeded? 5. What were you most surprised to learn about the United Nations from today’s reading? 6. Why, according to Keohane, would rational, self-interested states ever build and join international institutions that take away some of their autonomy/sovereignty? 7. What is Mearsheimer’s problem with the functionalist view we assessed last class? In your opinion, who wins the debate (Mearsheimer v. Keohane/Martin)? 8. Why, according to Hurd and Wendt, are international institutions important? How is this view distinct from the functionalist one detailed by Keohane earlier in the week? 9. Why do superpowers—like the United States in the first Gulf War—often attempt to act through IOs even when they don’t need the material support, according to Thompson? 10. Why, according to Thompson, did the United States initially try to act through the UNSC in the lead up to the 2003 Iraq War only to abandon it later? Are you convinced that he has the story right? 11. What do Brooks and Wohlforth argue about the reputational effects of IOs like the UNSC? What are the implications for Thompson’s thesis about the UNSC if they are right? 12. Why does your instructor characterize Drezner as a “milder” form of skepticism compared to Mearsheimer? What might Drezner concede about IOs that Mearsheimer does not? 13. After reading Drezner, what is your biggest takeaway about the way the Internet is (or is not) governed in IA? 14. America or the European Union: who do you believe is on the “right” side of the GMO regulation divide?
 
 15. In what ways is the Barnett/Finnemore perspective similar to that of Hurd and Wendt from a few weeks ago, and in what ways is it different? 16. SNOW DAY!!!! 17. Does Barnett and Finnemore’s account of the UNHCR help to shed any light on the Syrian refugee crisis (particularly in Europe) today? 18. After today’s readings, do you believe the relevant IOs can ever have the capacity for an efficient and positive-sum doctrine of humanitarian intervention? Or are they predisposed to fail? 19. Ding Dong, the Midterm’s Done! Draw a picture of whatever “happiness” means to you. 20. What IO might you like to focus upon for your IO profile? List two candidate organizations and give at least a sentence for each on why you are potentially interested in them. 21. What’s the main takeaway from Carpenter’s perspective on advocacy networks and agenda setting? (In other words, why do some issues get put on the international “agenda” while others fall by the wayside?) 22. Write something about which case study most intrigued you and why. Can you think of any other issues out there that are not in the book, but that we might be able to examine using Carpenter’s framework? 23. Drezner and Cooley/Ron are similarly skeptical regarding the positive and transformative powers of NGOs. In three sentences or less, describe how their skeptical arguments are nonetheless distinct from one another.
 
 International Organization 14 24. Of all the things the WTO does, which seems to you to be the most central and important? 
 25. Why according to Blustein did the Doha Round (and perhaps the WTO more generally) fail? 26. TBA! 27. Why do you believe the IMF has increased the conditions attached to its loans over time? 28. After today’s reading, do you believe the World Bank does more harm than good in international affairs? 29. So… did the system work, in your opinion? Why or why not? 30. Pick a predominantly economic regional agreement or organization aside from the EU most that interests you. What does doing a quick bit of research on it tell you about the agreement/organization’s origins, evolution and effectiveness over time? 31. “Unlike the emergence of the nation-state…, the EU cannot draw upon that exclusive narrative of political identity, but rather must coexist alongside its national members, with their own well-developed political communities and symbolic apparatus.” Explain in your own words (and in 5 sentences or less) what McNamara means here. 32. (Your instructor has died of the plague.)
 
 33. Briefly detail two arguments (from the reading, from elsewhere, or just from your brain) for your designated side of the debate. If you are a judge for this debate, please detail instead two questions that you believe are critical for one side or the other (or both) to adequately answer in order to win the debate. 34. If you had to highlight the 2 or 3 most important themes or developments in the evolution of an international judiciary as described by Alter, which would you choose (and why)? 35. Briefly detail two arguments (from the reading, from elsewhere, or just from your brain) for your designated side of the debate. If you are a judge for this debate, please detail instead two questions that you believe are critical for one side or the other (or both) to adequately answer in order to win the debate. 36. In what ways are Wallander and (separately) Daalder and Stavridis optimistic about NATO’s prospects for the future? Do you share their optimism? 37. Briefly detail two arguments (from the reading, from elsewhere, or just from your brain) for your designated side of the debate. If you are a judge for this debate, please detail instead two questions that you believe are critical for one side or the other (or both) to adequately answer in order to win the debate. 38. No entry, but be sure to bring to class today a) an electronic device to do the course evaluation; and b) your fondest memories of Statecraft. 39. Briefly detail two arguments (from the reading, from elsewhere, or just from your brain) for your designated side of the debate. If you are a judge for this debate, please detail instead two questions that you believe are critical for one side or the other (or both) to adequately answer in order to win the debate. Your journal is now complete! Good luck studying for the final exam! International Organization 15