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download course description (Word doc, 49 kB) The United Nations, Civil Society, and the Private Sector: Partnerships for Sustainable Human Security 9 July - 3 August 2001 Course Director:
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Brief biographies 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 “Global Networking for Human Security Project,” of which this course is a part. He was founding co-editor 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. Paula L'Ecuyer: Research fellow at the Institute of International Studies and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and 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 "Global Networking for Human Security" project. Vladislav Kravtsov: Assistant Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. His teaching and research interests include: civil society building; globalization and localization processes in democratization; Russian democratic transition; and the role of historical knowledge in political transition. He was a participant in our 1999 CEU SUN course. 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. He is 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. Timothy Shaw: Professor of International Development Studies, Dalhousie University and Permanent Visiting Professor, University of Stellenbosch and the University of the Western Cape. He is a prolific scholar and author of over 40 books and monographs and over 200 articles and chapters on various aspects of African politics and international relations. His most recent publications include: Illusions of Power: Nigeria in Transition: Reformism and Revisionism in Africa’s Political Economy in the 1990s: Dialectics of Adjustment; The Political Economy of Adjustment in Zimbabwe; New Regionalism in the New Millennium, special issue of Third World Quarterly; and Africa’s Challenge to International Relations theory. Course objectives This course is especially designed to enhance the professional development of young scholars from developing countries who are interested in or actively engaged in research and teaching about international relations, international institutions, sustainable development, and human security. It will offer participants an in-depth analysis of the forces that will affect and challenges that will confront global governance in the twenty-first century and various steps that might be taken to enhance the effectiveness of international institutions in responding to the challenges of promoting sustainable human development and human security. The course is a special component of a much larger transnational research and professional development program for young scholars in the social sciences and humanities. That project, the “Global Networking for Human Security 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 content and structure The course is organized around one of the late twentieth century's most challenging intellectual and practical puzzles, a puzzle that challenges the core of the interstate legal order's foundations in state sovereignty: Initiating and sustaining effective international responses to threats to human security require new forms of governance, integrating more fully nonstate entities with state entities at and across all levels of governance. Individuals and groups acting in the name of states and intergovernmental organizations have generally found the policy mechanisms under their control to be insufficient for responding effectively to war, civil strife, poverty, malnutrition, pandemic diseases, environmental degradation, resource depletion, and the multitude of other threats to human security. For their part, civic-based actors seldom possess sufficient resources, authority, or the requisite capacity for launching successful large-scale independent policy initiatives and therefore exert only meager influence on global developments. Building and sustaining cooperation between public and civic-based entities, however, has proved to be an elusive objective. 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 organized around five interrelated elements. First, "what is governance and how does governance relate to human security?” In that general context, we will explore the relationship between global governance and the creation and maintenance of democratic open societies at the local and national levels. Participants will also seek to identify the constellation of factors and forces that have conditioned the evolution of contemporary global governance processes and structures. Particular attention will be focused on the rise to predominance of liberal ideas, constitutive principles, and normative structures that underpin contemporary global governance. Class readings and discussions will explore the nature and implications of the dialectic between liberalism and other competing systems of thought. Second, 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. Third, participants analyze the competing forces and tensions that underpin global governance and condition the authoritative allocation of human needs and values. We examine the evolving dialectics between numerous forces and tensions, such as integration and fragmentation, globalization and localization, and universalism and relativism. Particular attention is paid to identifying and analyzing those forces that serve to undermine and limit the authority, legitimacy, and competency of the national state and state-centered international order. In addition, participants critically analyze the nature and content of global discourses about governance and security to identify ideas, constitutive principles, and structures of meaning that underlie those discourses and practices and associated practices. Fourth, 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. 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, we 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 The course is designed specifically for young scholars from developing countries who have a university degree, hold a teaching job at a college or university in their home country or work as an administrator or a professional, and possess a basic knowledge about international relations and multilateral affairs. Graduate students with teaching experience may also apply. We encourage applications from a wide variety of disciplines, intellectual traditions, professional orientations. Applicants from transitional societies should consider enrolling instead in the companion course, titled: “The UN, Civil Society, and the Private Sector in Global Governance,” which has been designed to address similar issues but with specific reference to processes of democratization and transition to open societies. Course format The course will be conducted in a mixed format, including lectures, discussion groups, a research concept paper, a syllabus construction project, Internet research workshops, interactive teaching workshops, individual and group panel presentations, and daily informal “forum” sessions during which participants discuss intellectual issues of common concern. Participants are expected to produce both (1) a completed research design and (2) a course syllabus or other appropriate teaching/information dissemination project. There is no formal grading in the course, but participants whose performance is especially exemplary may be invited to participate on a continuing basis in the larger research program of which the course is a part. Course content and timetable Monday, July 9
Tuesday, July 10
Wednesday, July 11
Thursday, July 12
Friday, July 13
Monday, July 16
Tuesday, July 17
Wednesday, July 18
Thursday, July 19
Friday, July 20
Monday, July 23
Tuesday, July 24
Wednesday, July 25
Thursday, July 26
Friday, July 27
Monday, July 30
Tuesday, July 31
Wednesday, August 1
Thursday, August 2
Friday, August 3
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