Central
European University A Program
for University Teachers, Advanced Ph.D. Students, Researchers and Professionals
in the Social Sciences and Humanities Summer University
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Central
European University A Program
for University Teachers, Advanced Ph.D. Students, Researchers and Professionals
in the Social Sciences and Humanities Summer University |
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10 July -
4 August, 2000
Course Directors: Roger Coate (University
of South Carolina, USA)
Roger Coate: Professor of international organization at the University of South Carolina. He is currently directing a large-scale collaborative research and professional development program, the "Creating Effective Partnerships for Sustainable Development Project," of which this course is a part. He serves as coeditor of the journal Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations. He is author or coauthor of numerous books and monographs, including most recently: The United Nations and Changing World Politics; International Cooperation in Response to AIDS; and United States Policy and the Future of the United Nations. Andrei Gratchev: Russian scholar, political writer, and former diplomat. He served as political advisor and last official spokesperson of the President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev. He serves as visiting scholar at the Sorbonne in Paris and as a research fellow at St. Anthony's College in Oxford as well as a consultant to UNESCO. He is the author of several books that have been widely translated, including Final Days: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Paula L'Ecuyer: Research fellow at the Institute of International Studies at the University of South Carolina. Her primary research interests are the European Union, European monetary integration, and German monetary politics. She also studies international political economy issues of globalization and telecommunications. She has participated in and developed courses for alternative instruction methods to promote active learning in the classroom and serves as the associate director of the "Creating Effective Partnerships for Sustainable Development" project. Donald Puchala: Charles L. Jacobson Professor of Public Affairs and Director of the Institute of International Studies at the University of South Carolina. His main research interests focus on problems of international cooperation, organization and integration, and ethics, culture and international affairs. He is also a specialist in on Western European international relations and the politics and economics of the common market. Among his publications are: Visions of International Relations, Immigration into Western Societies, The Ethics of Globalism, and Global Food Interdependence. James Rosenau: University Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University. Past President of the International Studies Association and long-time student of international relations theory and practice. He has published over forty books, including most recently Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier: Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World, Thinking Theory Thoroughly, Global Voices: Dialogues in International Relations, The United Nations in a Turbulent World, Governance without Government, and Turbulence in World Politics. Sergey Sevastyanov: Professor and Dean of Faculty of the Oriental Studies Department and Deputy Director of the Institute of Law and Politics of the Asian Pacific Region of the Vladivostok University of Economics. He is an expert in Asian Pacific security affairs and multilateral economic cooperation and organizations. He has published numerous articles including: "Cooperation between Navies as a Basis for Asia-Pacific Security," "Some American Post Cold War Challenges and Policy Options," Counteracting the Proliferation of WMD," and "Some Aspects of China's Geopolitics in the Pacific Environment." He was a participant in the SUN 1999 project-related summer course. Mihály Simai: Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and is currently working in the Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as a Research Professor. He is a Professor of International Economic and Business Studies at the Budapest University of Economics and the director of both the undergraduate and advanced studies programs on International Cooperation and International Business. He served many years as a staff member in the United Nations and was the Director of the World Institute for Development Economics of the United Nations University. Also he has served as President of the World Federation of UN Associations. His publications include: Toward the Third Millennium: Interdependence and Conflicts in the World Economy, Global Power Structure, Technology, and World Economy, The New Global Environment for the Development Process, and The Future of Global Governance. Gillian Sorensen: United Nations Assistant
Secretary-General for External Relations. She has worked with the United
Nations in a number of capacities for over 17 years. Current responsibilities
include oversight of UN communications strategy, liaison between the Executive
Office of the Secretary-General and international nongovernmental organizations
and civil society, and scheduling for Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Course objectives
Initiating and sustaining effective international responses to threats to human security require the integrated engagement of nonstate entities with state entities at and across all levels. Yet the foundation of the UN system in the principle of the inviolability of state sovereignty greatly constrains and inhibits UN agencies from engaging civic and subnational state entities constructively. In this context emerges an overriding challenge: how to generate and sustain effective cooperation both horizontally across differing autonomous organizational domains, legal jurisdictions, and sectors of society and vertically across time as well as across different levels of social aggregation from the micro level of individuals in their roles in groups, organizations, and communities to the macro level of representative governance in international forums. The course is designed to enhance the professional development of young scholars who are interested in or actively engaged in research and teaching about international relations, international institutions, sustainable development, and human security. It is a component of a much larger transnational research and professional development program for young scholars in the social sciences and humanities. That project, the "Creating Effective Partnerships for Sustainable Development Project," is in cooperation with the Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the United Nations University, the Academic Council on the United Nations System, the International Studies Association. It is designed to build self-sustaining interdisciplinary research and teaching networks among scholars from different nationalities, cultures, professions, and disciplines. The course will offer participants an in-depth analysis of the forces that will affect and challenges that will confront institutions and practitioners of global governance in the twenty-first century and various steps that might be taken to enhance the effectiveness of international institutions in responding to those challenges. The course will present and challenge participants with the latest concepts, theories, empirical analyses, and teaching techniques about the nature, structures, and processes of global governance and the "new" multilateralism involving private sector, civil society, and social movement actors. Course structure
The second part of the course focuses on the evolving meanings of security. It explores the global value dialectic over peace and security and the transition from a narrow definition of security-national security and protection from physical military aggression-to the much broader concept of human security-meaning that individuals sense and perceive themselves increasingly secure. Global governance and human security are inextricably linked, and the notion of human security focuses international organizational attention directly on individuals and their circumstances. Human security is directly linked to the satisfaction of fundamental human needs and sustainable human development. Enhancing human security is what development is all about. Class activities will explore this important relationship. In part three, participants are challenged to re-conceptualize international relations and global governance in non-state-centered terms and to move beyond state/nonstate conceptualizations, such as domestic/foreign, inside/outside, or "we"/"they." Class activities will explore the concept of civil society and will discuss the ways in which diverse agents and forces of society can be brought more effectively into our models and theories of international relations. Special emphasis will be placed on identifying actual and potential partnerships between international institutions and those diverse, often contradictory, and sometimes conflictual social forces and entities that lie beyond state control. Traditional approaches to multilateralism and global governance have been predominantly hierarchical, concentrating on great power relationships. Such a top-down approach, however, obscures important aspects of dominant-subdominant relationships at the international level and reifies and promotes certain ideas and constitutive principles held by the most powerful participants. In recent years, however, an increasing body of literature has emerged, which challenges such a traditional orientation. In part four, these new approaches to multilateralism and global governance will be analyzed, as they relate to the intellectual puzzle being explored. Particular emphasis will be placed on identifying implications for enhancing the effectiveness of international institutions for promoting human security. Finally, part five explores the nature, plausibility, and possibility of reforms in international institutions that would be required to bring civil society and the private sector more fully and effectively into global policy processes. Course level and target audience
Course format
Course content and timetable Part 1. Governance and the Contemporary World
Order
Tuesday, July 11
Lecture: Environmental Decay and Other Challenges to Sustainable
Wednesday, July 12
Lecture: Normative Foundations of Contemporary Global Governance
Thursday, July 13
Lecture: Order in the New Global Political Context
Friday, July 14
Lecture: Globalization and the Dialectics of World Order
Part 2. Human Security and Sustainable Human
Development
Tuesday, July 18
Lecture: Human Rights and Human Security
Wednesday, July 19 Class Outing to the United Nations, Vienna Office Thursday, July 20
Lecture: Human Security and Sustainable Human Development
Friday, July 21
Lecture: Development: Sustainable or Otherwise
Part 3. Global Partnerships Monday, July 24 Lecture: UNESCO and New
Partnerships for Development
Tuesday, July 25
Lecture: The Politics of Sustainability
Wednesday, July 26
Lecture: Empowerment, Development, and Human Security
Thursday, July 2
Class Outing: Special Seminar at the Szechenyi School of Technology and
Part 4. New Forms of International Cooperation
and Governance
Monday, July 31 Lecture: Managing Risk
and Change in Global Systems
Tuesday, August 1
Lecture: The United Nations and the Challenge of Relevance
Part 5. Reinventing International Institutions
Thursday, August 3
Lecture: United Nations Reform as a Political Issue
Friday, August 4
Lecture: The Future of Global Governance
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