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Table of Contents PREFACE I. THE UNITED NATIONS: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION PERSPECTIVES INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ...................................................................................................... 9 Chadwick F. Alger PROSEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND INTEGRATION ............................................... 16 Harold K. Jacobson INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ..................................................................................................... 19 W. Andy Knight INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS .................................................................................................... 23 M.J. Peterson THE UNITED NATIONS AND CHANGING WORLD POLITICS ............................................................... 27 Thomas G. Weiss II. THE UNITED NATIONS: INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSPECTIVES CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW ............................................................................. 33 Jarat Chopra INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ORGANIZATION ..................................................................................... 36 Lawrence S. Finkelstein SELECTED PROBLEMS IN THE WORK OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: ....................................... 40 PROBLEMS OF MONITORING COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS Gregory H. Fox, Thomas M. Franck, and Paul C. Szasz INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS .................................................................................................... 47 Steven Ratner PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW .......................................................................................................... 52 Linda C. Reif III. INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY UN-SPONSORED MILITARY OPERATIONS ......................................................................................... 63 Donald C.F. Daniel and Bradd C. Hayes UNITED NATIONS REFORM.............................................................................................................. 67 Michael W. Doyle 1 Table of Contents (cont’d.) III. INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY (CONT’D.) INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING ...................................................................................................... 73 Alan James UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING: CASE STUDIES ............................................................................ 76 Stephen P. Marks THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE MAINTENANCE OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ................................ 85 Bruce Russett and James Sutterlin IV. HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS IMPLEMENTING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ............................................................................ 91 Jack Donnelly INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS .................................................................................................... 95 David P. Forsythe INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW ............................................................................................ 99 Hurst Hannum GENOCIDE .................................................................................................................................... 103 Rhoda E. Howard THE CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS REGIME.................................................... 108 Michael G. Schechter V. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT ....................................................... 117 Thomas Biersteker and Peter Uvin THE POLITICS OF THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................... 121 Daniel Deudney INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS .................................................................................. 125 Peter M. Haas ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ....................................................... 129 Richard Matthew APPROACHES TO DEVELOPMENT .................................................................................................... 133 Timothy M. Shaw 2 Table of Contents (cont’d.) VI. GLOBALIZATION AND MULTILATERALISM INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF THE THIRD WORLD ....................................................................... 145 Ken Conca MULTILATERALISM ........................................................................................................................ 148 Robert W. Cox INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ................................................................................................... 152 Craig N. Murphy THE DYNAMICS OF GLOBALIZATION .............................................................................................. 156 James N. Rosenau 3 4 Preface More Teaching About International Organization: Selected Syllabi is the third in a series of syllabi compilations published by The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). This publication is intended to be useful in the fields of international organization and law, peace and security, human rights and humanitarian action, sustainable development, and international relations more generally. Approximately thirty undergraduate and graduate syllabi appear in this collection, which were selected from a much larger pool that resulted from contacting the membership of ACUNS. They largely represent contributions from political scientists and international lawyers, our main constituents, but the content in many cases cuts across a variety of disciplines. I thus hope that they will be useful as well to other teachers. This collection is by no means a complete representation of the issues being taught in the field of international organization. It is rather my judgment about a useful sampling of what is being taught, as well as an illustration of the literature in the field. I am grateful to the contributors to this volume who were kind enough to share their syllabi with us as well as to others whose submissions could not be included because of limitations of space. In this regard, I am pleased to announce that this is the final printed version of the syllabi compilation. In the future, we plan to make these syllabi and others available on-line. This will be part of the ACUNS World Wide Web page that permits low-cost and continuous updating. For additional information, the home page can be accessed at the following URL: http://www.netspace.org/acuns/ Finally let me express my gratitude to both Jennifer Patrick and Melissa Phillips who worked tirelessly to streamline and format this publication. Without them, this would have remained yet another pile in my office. As always, your comments and suggestions are welcome. Thomas G. Weiss Executive Director 5 6 I The United Nations: International Organization Perspectives 7 8 ◆ INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ◆ Chadwick F. Alger Political Science 759 The Ohio State University Fall Quarter 1993 • 2 Sessions per Week A. SEMINAR DESCRIPTION The purpose of this seminar is to enable participants to acquire a comprehensive overview of international governmental organizations (IGOs) and international non-governmental (non-profit) organizations (INGOs). Primary attention will be devoted to global organizations, particularly the United Nations system. Readings and Seminar discussions are organized around six topics: I. Historical Context, focused on the League of Nations and the19th century roots of the League. (What are the historical roots of the UN system? What is the significance of these roots for the present functioning and future potential of the UN system?) II. Institutions/Political Process. The legal framework and institutional structure of the entire UN system of some 30 organizations. The political process includes not only decision-making in public bodies, but also the broader political process which is inclusive of non-governmental organizations and the wider public. (What are the similarities and differences with institutions and political processes of states? How are the two linked?) III. Assessments of the Field, placing present study and research on international organizations in the context of past efforts and future needs. (What are the strengths and weaknesses and future potential of this field of study? What are the comparative strengths and weaknesses of major textbooks such as Bennett, Jacobson, Riggs and Plano, and Soroos?) IV. Analytic Approaches, including functionalism, integration, regimes, global policy, organizational theory, and epistemic communities. (Which analytic approaches are most helpful in assessing the present activities and future potential of organizations coping with specific problems?) V. Problems/Strategies/Regimes/Networks, assessing the activities, achievements, and failures of international organizations focusing on specific problems: collective security, peacekeeping, peaceful settlement, disarmament/arms control, self-determination, human rights, economic development, refugees, trade, labor, food, population, health, communication, ecosystem, and oceans. (What are the similarities and differences in approaches to different problems? How are success and failure in coping with different problems linked?) VI. Conclusions/Future. Overall, how successful has the UN system been in coping with a growing array of global problems? What is the potential for the future and how should it be utilized? How successful have scholars been in developing research and teaching which offers penetrating insight on the UN system and other international organizations? How successful have scholars been in developing knowledge which illuminates future potential and how it might be employed toward more effective coping

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