FSS:EUP401 Intl. Organizations - Course Information

EUP401 International/transnational Organizations and European Politics

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 16 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Břetislav Dančák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Oldřich Krpec, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. David Müller, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Mgr. Ivo Pospíšil, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Petr Suchý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Anna Shavit, Ph.D. (assistant)

Guaranteed by

PhDr. Petr Suchý, Ph.D.
Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Jolana Navrátilová

Timetable

Thu 12:00–13:30 U41

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• European Politics (Eng.) (programme FSS, N-PL)

Course objectives (in Czech)

The goal of the course is to introduce students to the study of important international and transnational organizations with a specific focus on European politics. The course provides a broad overview of the most important international organizations and their involvement in European matters. In addition to international organizations, the course also discusses the role of transnational actors, i.e. non-state organizations that establish cross-national relations. The first part of the course gives an overview of important international financial and security organizations. The first two seminars focus on the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The following three seminars deal with NATO and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The second part of the course concentrates on the European Union, on East European international cooperation, and on transnational relations. The first seminar of this part debates the role the European Union plays in international affairs. It is followed by two seminars on international cooperation in the area of Eastern Europe. The last three seminars focus on the role non-governmental actors play in world and European politics.

Syllabus (in Czech)

• Class Schedule, Required and Optional Readings. Week 1. Introductory Seminar. Part I. International Financial and Security Organizations. Week 2. The World Trade Organization and the European Union - Problematic Areas in the International Trade Regime (Krpec) Required readings: Swinbank, A., "EU Agriculture, Agenda 2000 and WTO Commitments", World Economy, vol. 22, no. 1 (1999), pp. 41-54 (14 pages). Kerr, W., Hobbs, J., "The North American-European Union Dispute Over Beef Produced Using Growth Hormones: A Major Test for the New International Trade Regime", World Economy, vol. 25, no. 2 (2002), pp. 283-296 (14 pages). Page, S., Hewitt, A., "The New European Trade Preferences: Does "Everything But Arms" (EBA) Help the Poor?", Development Policy Review, vol. 20, no. 1 (2002), 91-102 (12 pages). Optional readings: Pavcnik, N., "Trade Disputes in the Commercial Aircraft Industry", World Economy, vol. 25, no. 5 (2002), pp. 733-751. Tangermann, S., "Europe's Agricultural Policies and the Millenium Round", World Economy, vol. 22, no. 9 (1999), pp. 1155-1178. Week 3. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in World Politics (Krpec). Required readings: Krueger, A., "Whither the World Bank and the IMF?", Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 36 (December 1998), pp. 1983-2020 (38 pages). Optional readings: Eichengreen, B., "Strengthening the International Financial Architecture. Where Do We Stand?", ASEAN Economic Bulletin, vol. 17, no. 2 (2000), pp. 175-192. Week 4. NATO in the Cold War (Suchý). Required readings: Staar, R. F., USSR Foreign Policies After Détente, Stanford: Stanford University, Hoover Institution Press, 1987, pp. 155-177 (23 pages). Week 5. Transformation of NATO after the Cold War (Suchý). Required readings: Kay, S., "NATO's Next Enlargement: An Overview," in: Valasek, T., Hitchens, T. (eds.) Growing Pains: The Debate on the Next Round of NATO Enlargement, Washington D. C.: Center for Defense Information, 2002, pp. 9-39 (31 pages). Martinuzs, Z., "NATO Enlargement: Lessons from the 1999 Round," in: Valasek, T., Hitchens, T. (eds.) Growing Pains: The Debate on the Next Round of NATO Enlargement, Washington D. C.: Center for Defense Information, 2002, pp. 41-59 (19 pages). Optional readings: Gordon, P. H., "NATO after 11 September," Survival, vol. 43, no. 4 (2001-02), pp. 89-106. Week 6. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Suchý) Required readings: Dunkerley, C. G., "Considering Security Amidst Strategic Change: The OSCE Experience," Middle East Policy, vol. XI, no. 3 (2004), pp. 131-138 (8 pages). Optional readings: Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe Final Act. Helsinky 1975. (http://www.osce.org/docs/english/1990-1999/summits/helfa75e.pdf). Part II. EU, East European International Cooperation, and Transnational Relations. Week 7. The European Union in Global Politics (Müller). Required readings: Bretherton, Ch., Vogler, J., The European Union as a Global Actor, Routledge, 1999, pp. 15-46 (31 pages). Smith, M., "The EU as an International Actor," in: Richardson, J. (ed.) European Union, London, pp. 284-301 (17 pages). Ginsberg, R., The European Union in International Politics: Baptism by Fire, Oxford, 2001, pp. 21-45, 281-283 (27 pages). The European Union in the World (http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/world/index.htm) - skim through! Optional readings: Piening, C., Global Europe: The European Union in World Affairs, London, 1997, pp. 13-47. Week 8. Visegrad Group (V4) - Problems of Co-operation in East Central Europe (Dančák). Required readings: Lukáč, P., "Visegrad Cooperation - Ideas, Developments and Prospects", Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, no. 1 (2001), pp. 6-23 (18 pages). Wallat J., "Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic and the Visegrad Cooperation - Foreign and Security Policy since 1989", Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, no. 1 (2001), pp. 24-35 (12 pages). Handl V., Hyde-Price A., "Germany and the Visegrad Countries", Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, no. 1 (2001), pp. 56-74 (18 pages). Khotkova H., "Russia's Relations with Central-Eastern European Countries: Beginning of a New Stage?", Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, no. 1 (2001), pp. 75-81 (7 pages). Optional readings: Stastny, M. (ed.) Visegrad Countries in an Enlarged Trans-Atlantic Community, Bratislava: Institute for Public Affairs, 2002. Stastny, M. (ed.) Iraq Crisis and Politics in USA, Europe and V4 Countries, Bratislava: Institute for Public Affairs, 2003. Week 9. The Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) - A Step towards EU Membership (Dančák). Required readings: Réti T., "Visegrad Economies - Heading for European Union", in: Stastný, M. (ed.) Visegrad Countries in an Enlarged Trans-Atlantic Community, Bratislava: Institute for Public Affairs, 2002, pp. 139-166 (28 pages). Optional readings: The Role of CEFTA in the Process of EU Enlargement, Prague: Institute of International Relations, 1999. Hirman, K., "The Position of the Visegrad Countries in Energy Relations between Russia and the EU", Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, no. 1 (2001), pp. 82-96. Dangerfield, M., Subregional economic co-operation in Central and Eastern Europe. The Political Economy of CEFTA, Edward Elgar, 2000. Week 10. Transnational Organizations in World Politics (Císař). Required readings: Keck, M., Sikkink, K., Activists Beyond Borders. Advocacy Networks in International Politics, Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 1998, pp. 1-37 (37 pages). Glasius, M., "Expertise in the Cause of Justice: Global Civil Society Influence on the Statute for an International Criminal Court", in: Glasius M., Kaldor, M., Anheimer H. (eds.) Global Civil Society 2002, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 137-168 (32 pages). Optional readings: Keohane, R., Nye, J., Power and Interdependence, 3rd edition, New York: Longman, 2001, pp. 3-32. Josselin, D., Wallace, W., "Non-state Actors in World Politics: A Framework", in: Josselin, D., Wallace, W. (eds.) Non-state Actors in World Politics, New York: Palgrave, 2001, pp. 1-20. Halliday, F., "The Romance of Non-state Actors", in: Josselin, D., Wallace, W. (eds.) Non-state Actors in World Politics, New York: Palgrave, 2001, pp. 21-37. Tarrow, S., Power in Movement. Social Movements and Contentious Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998, pp. 176-195. Week 11. Transnational Organizations in European Politics (Císař). Required readings: Imig, D., "Contestation in the Streets: European Protest and the Emerging Euro-Polity", in: Marks G., Steenbergen M. (eds.) European Integration and Political Conflict, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 216-234 (19 pages). McMahon, P., "Building Civil Societies in East Central Europe: The Effects of American Non-governmental Organisations on Women's Groups", Democratisation, vol. 8, no. 2 (2001), pp. 45-68 (24 pages). Optional readings: Tarrow S., "Contentious Politics in a Composite Polity", in: Imig D., Tarrow S. (eds.) Contentious Europeans. Protest and Politics in an Emerging Polity, Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001, pp. 233-251. Imig D., Tarrow S., "Mapping the Europeanization of Contention: Evidence from a Quantitative Data Analysis," in: Imig D., Tarrow, S. (eds.) Contentious Europeans. Protest and Politics in an Emerging Polity, Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001, pp. 27-49. Imig D., Tarrow S., "Political Contention in a Europeanising Polity", West European Politics vol. 23, no. 4 (2000), pp. 73-93. Imig D., Tarrow S., "Studying Contention in an Emerging Polity", in: Imig D., Tarrow, S. (eds.) Contentious Europeans. Protest and Politics in an Emerging Polity, Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001, pp. 3-26. Week 12. Globalization and Anti-Globalization (Císař). Required readings: Kaldor M., Anheimer H., Glasius M., "Global Civil Society in an Era of Regressive Globalization", in: Kaldor, M., Anheimer H., Glasius M. (eds.) Global Civil Society 2003, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 3-33 (31 pages). Ancelovici, M. "Organizing against Globalization: The Case of ATTAC in France", Politics & Society, vol. 30, no. 3 (2002), pp. 427-463 (29 pages). Optional readings: Scholte J. A., Globalization. A Critical Introduction, Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 2000. Held, D., McGrew, A., Goldblatt D., Perraton J., Global Transformations. Politics, Economics and Culture, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999. Chandhoke, N. "The Limits of Global Civil Society", in: Glasius M., Kaldor M., Anheimer H. (eds.) Global Civil Society 2002, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 35-53.

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Course Requirements 1. Students are expected to read the required reading(s) for each seminar. If there are two or three required readings rather than one, students are expected to read all of them. The optional reading is only for those who have special interest in the topic. 2. Students are encouraged to actively participate in the seminars by posing questions of clarification or bringing up problems for discussion. 3. Students are expected to write three short position papers (300-600 words each) on three different seminar topics. The papers should include a summary of the main points of the required reading(s), a critique of these readings, questions of clarification, and possible questions for discussion. To enable the organization of the in-class discussion, papers must have three clearly identified sections: 1) a summary section entitled Summary; 2) a critique section entitled Critique; 3) a section containing questions for discussion entitled Questions. Papers that do not have this structure and contain different points scattered throughout the text will be rejected and will not count towards the student's grade. The position papers should be sent via e-mail to the lecturer responsible for the respective seminar. The papers should be submitted no later than 1 p. m. of the day before the seminar for which the paper is written. 4. At the end of the semester students should submit a 10-page long final paper on a topic relevant to the course. 5. There will be a final in-class written exam, consisting of five questions based on the required readings and the discussions in class. Grading The final grade will be calculated as a composite evaluation consisting of three parts: 1) evaluation on the three position papers 2) evaluation on the final paper 3) evaluation on the final exam Students will be awarded 6 points for the submission of three position papers of acceptable quality, in compliance with the required structure of position papers, and in the specified deadline. The points are awarded as a bulk evaluation for the submission of all papers; separate papers do not get points. This means that no points at all will be awarded for the submission of only two (or one) position papers. Late submissions and submission of papers that do not meet the minimal requirements of quality and structure are not acceptable. Each final-exam question gets between 0 and 5 points (max. 25 points overall for the final exam). Students will be awarded 14 points for the submission of a final paper of acceptable quality. The grade will be calculated on the basis of the number of points collected. In order to complete the course, students must collect at least 27 points (60% of the max. points for all parts, i.e. 45 points). Workload 3 position papers (300-600 words each) 1 final paper (10 pages long) 489 pages of required reading (app. 45 pages per week)

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.

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