Masters in International Public Policy
IP604
Politics, Policy and Globalization
Prof. Paul Freston
Wilfrid Laurier University, Fall 2015
Thursdays 14:30 – 17:20
Room BSIA 132
Course Description and Objectives
The world is in an accelerated process of globalization, a word which must be understood
not only in economic terms but also in political, social and cultural dimensions. The field of
globalization studies has significantly impacted the study of international relations, a field
traditionally structured on the primacy of the state and the division between domestic and
international spheres of activity. Globalization processes thus pose challenges to understanding
issues of governance and policy making. The course will seek to provide resources for thinking
about such questions, as well as heightening awareness of global reality, giving historical and social
scientific perspectives for reflection on politics and policy today.
Methodology
Required readings, class discussions, seminar presentations, lectures, video and audio
material. The required readings will be from a variety of sources to be distributed during the course,
or which are available or on reserve in the library.
The instructor will generally have office hours on Wednesday afternoons between 2 and 4
p.m. (BSIA room 314, pfreston@wlu.ca), or by arrangement.
Course Requirements
Students will be evaluated on a seminar presentation (worth 35% of the final grade), a final
paper (worth 45%) and general class participation based on the required readings (worth 20%). The
seminar presentations should include a summary of the set of readings, a critique of their content, an
elucidation of connections between the readings (comparisons, contradictions, complementarities)
and questions for class discussion. The final paper (which must be submitted to the instructor in
electronic form by 12 December 2015) should be of at least 5000 words in length, and must be done
on an aspect of “politics, policy and globalization”, chosen by the student and approved by the
instructor.
Required Readings
After the introductory class on 17 September, there will be required readings to be done for
each class:
24 Sept
Globalization, global
politics, nationalism
1 Oct
Global governance:
what, why, how and
since when?
8 Oct
The United Nations:
history, purposes,
structure, effectiveness
TBD
Security and violence in Browning 2013: 5-17; 104-117
global politics
Barrett 2013: 211-213
Weiss 2013: 62-70; 84-90; 106-112; 127-133; 149154
Gaskarth 2013: 11-27
McGrew 2007: 15-40
Sheehan 2014: 215-228
Kiras 2014: 358-371
Global human rights
Clapham 2007: 6-56; 159-163
Weiss 2013: 70-75; 91-96; 112-117; 133-139; 154159
Blakeley & Raphael 2013: 160-179
Donnelly 2014: 473-476
Brink 2012: 475-478
Humanitarianism and
Barnett 2011: 1-46; 49-56; 76-82; 97-106; 161-170;
its transformations
232-239
Orbinski 2008: 4-15; 301-303; 320-333; 382-390
Weissman 2014: 500-511
Smith 2014: 123-128
Refugees and internally Browning 2013: 91-103
displaced persons: a
Hanhimäki 2008: 127-133
growing phenomenon
Barnett 2011: 82-90; 138-142; 174-183; 188-191;
205-209
Orchard 2013: 180-196
Koser 2014: 668-678
Orbinski 2008: 260-299
Global public goods:
Barrett 2013: 1-102; 133-165
always difficult? why
22 Oct
29 Oct
5 Nov
12 Nov
Steger 2013: 1-73; 103-130
Smith, Owens, Baylis 2014: 4-12
McGrew 2014: 18-29
Breuilly 2014: 388-399
Bauman 1998: 1-26; 59-76
Weiss 2013: 1-3; 8-41
Harman & Williams 2013a: 1-7
Harman & Williams 2013b: 197-205
Held & McGrew 2002: 8-14
Brown 2007: 171-189
Cammack 2014: 169-179
Armstrong 2014: 36-49
Little 2014: 289-303
Hanhimäki 2008: 1-25; 27-90
Wilkinson 2007: 84-91
Lechner & Boli 2005: 81-108
so difficult?
19 Nov
Transnational civil
society, and case
studies in corruption,
and violence against
women
26 Nov
Cultural dimensions of
globalization: world
culture, diversity and
anti-globalization
3 Dec
Ethics,
cosmopolitanism, and
the challenges of global
public policy
Florini & Simmons 2000: 1-11
Florini 2000: 211-240
Scholte 2014: 322-334
Lechner & Boli 2005: 109-112; 119-134
Cater 2013: 62-78
Keck & Sikkink 1998: 165-198
Steger 2013: 74-86
Lechner & Boli 2005: 1-28; 30-59; 65-75; 139-150;
153-162; 191-214;
Tomlinson 2007: 159-165
Berger 2002: 1-16
Hannerz 1990: 237-251
Shapcott 2014: 198-211
Jordan & Gray 2011: 3-18; 345-353
MacNaghten forthcoming 1-22
Vertovec & Cohen 2002: 1-20
Calhoun 2002: 88-93
Hollinger 2002: 227-239
Bouman 2014: 79-83
Lipsey 2014: 119-141
Bibliography of Required Readings
(A supplementary bibliography will be given during the course.)
Armstrong, David. 2014. “The Evolution of International Society”, in J. Baylis, S. Smith & P.
Owens (eds.), The Globalization of World Politics, 6th edition, pp. 35-49.
Barnett, Michael. 2011. Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism, Ithaca, Cornell
University Press.
Barrett, Scott. 2013. Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods, Oxford
University Press.
Bauman, Zygmunt. 1998, Globalization: The Human Consequences, Cambridge, Polity.
Berger, Peter. 2002. ‘The Cultural Dynamics of Globalization’, in P. Berger & S. Huntington (eds.),
Many Globalizations, New York, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-16.
Blakeley, Ruth & Raphael, Sam. 2013. “Governing Human Rights: rendition, secret dentention and
torture in the ‘War on Terror’,” in S. Harman & D. Williams (eds.), Governing the World? Cases
in Global Governance, London, Routledge, pp. 160-179.
Bouman, Monica. 2014. “Dag Hammarskjöld and the Politics of Hope”, in C. Stahn & H. Melber
(eds.), Peace Diplomacy, Global Justice and International Agency, Cambridge University Press,
pp. 77-105.
Breuilly, John. 2014. “Nationalism”, in J. Baylis, S. Smith & P. Owens (eds.), The Globalization
of World Politics, 6th edition, Oxford University Press, pp. 387-400.
Brink, Paul. 2012. “Debating International Human Rights”, in D. Hoover & D. Johnston (eds.),
Religion and Foreign Affairs, Waco, Baylor University Press, pp. 473-480.
Brown, Chris. 2007. “Reimagining International Society and Global Community”, in D. Held & A.
McGrew (eds.), Globalization Theory, Cambridge, Polity, pp. 171-189.
Browning, Christopher. 2013. International Security, Oxford University Press.
Calhoun, Craig. 2002. “The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travellers: Towards a Critique of
Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism”, in S. Vertovec & R. Cohen (eds.), Conceiving
Cosmopolitanism, Oxford University Press, pp. 86-109.
Cammack, Paul. 2014. “Classical Marxism”, in T. Weiss & R. Wilkinson (eds.), International
Organization and Global Governance, Abingdon, Routledge, pp. 169-179.
Cater, Charles. 2013. “Corruption and Global Governance”, in S. Harman & D. Williams (eds.),
Governing the World? Cases in Global Governance, London, Routledge, pp. 62-78.
Clapham, Andrew. 2007. Human Rights, Oxford University Press.
Donnelly, Jack. 2014. “Human Rights”, in J. Baylis, S. Smith & P. Owens (eds.), The
Globalization of World Politics, 6th edition, Oxford University Press, pp. 463-478.
Florini, Ann. 2000. “Lessons Learned”, in A. Florini (ed.), The Third Force: The Rise of
Transnational Civil Society, Tokyo, Japan Center for International Exchange / Washington,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, pp. 211-240.
Florini, Ann & Simmons, P. J. 2000. “What the World Needs Now?”, in A. Florini (ed.), The
Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society, Tokyo, Japan Center for International
Exchange / Washington, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, pp. 1-15.
Gaskarth, Jamie. 2013. “Security and Global Governance”, in S. Harman & D. Williams (eds.),
Governing the World? Cases in Global Governance, London, Routledge, pp. 11-27.
Hanhimäki, Jussi. 2008. The United Nations, Oxford University Press.
Hannerz, Ulf. 1990. “Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture”, in Theory, Culture and
Society, Vol. 7, pp. 237-251.
Harman, Sophie & Williams, David. 2013a. “Introduction: Governing the World?”, in S. Harman &
D. Williams (eds.), Governing the World? Cases in Global Governance, London, Routledge, pp.
1-10.
Harman, Sophie & Williams, David. 2013b. “Conclusion: Governing the World?”, in S. Harman &
D. Williams (eds.), Governing the World? Cases in Global Governance, London, Routledge, pp.
197-205.
Held, David & McGrew, Anthony. 2002. “Introduction”, in D. Held & A. McGrew (eds.),
Governing Globalization, Cambridge, Polity, pp. 1-21.
Hollinger, David. 2002. “Not Universalists, Not Pluralists: The New Cosmopolitans Find their Own
Way”, in S. Vertovec & R. Cohen (eds.), Conceiving Cosmopolitanism, Oxford University Press,
pp. 227-239.
Jordan, Sara & Gray, Philip. 2011. The Ethics of Public Administration: The Challenges of
Global Governance, Waco, Baylor University Press.
Keck, Margaret & Sikkink, Kathryn. 1998. Activists Beyond Borders, Ithaca, Cornell University
Press.
Kiras, James. 2014. “Terrorism and Globalization”, in J. Baylis, S. Smith & P. Owens (eds.), The
Globalization of World Politics, 6th edition, Oxford University Press, pp. 357-371.
Koser, Khalid. 2014. “Refugees and Migration”, in T. Weiss & R. Wilkinson (eds.), International
Organization and Global Governance, Abingdon, Routledge, pp. 668-678.
Lechner, Frank & Boli, John. 2005. World Culture. Malden, Blackwell.
Lipsey, Roger. 2014. “From the Unwritten Manual: Dag Hammarskjöld’s Political Wisdom”, in C.
Stahn & H. Melber (eds.), Peace Diplomacy, Global Justice and International Agency,
Cambridge University Press, pp. 119-141.
Little, Richard. 2014. “International Regimes”, in J. Baylis, S. Smith & P. Owens (eds.), The
Globalization of World Politics, 6th edition, Oxford University Press, pp. 289-303.
MacNaghten, Phil. Forthcoming. “The craft of anticipating public responses to emerging
technologies: a narrative approach”.
McGrew, Anthony. 2007. “Organized Violence in the Making (and Remaking) of Globalization”, in
D. Held & A. McGrew (eds.), Globalization Theory, Cambridge, Polity, pp. 15-40.
McGrew, Anthony. 2014. “Globalization and Global Politics”, in J. Baylis, S. Smith & P. Owens
(eds.), The Globalization of World Politics, 6th edition, Oxford University Press, pp. 15-31.
Orbinski, James. 2008. An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First
Century, Anchor Canada.
Orchard, Phil. 2013. “Governing Forced Migration”, in S. Harman & D. Williams (eds.),
Governing the World? Cases in Global Governance, London, Routledge, pp. 180-196.
Scholte, Jan Aart. 2014. “Civil Society and NGOs”, in T. Weiss & R. Wilkinson (eds.),
International Organization and Global Governance, Abingdon, Routledge, pp. 322-334.
Shapcott, Richard. 2014. “International Ethics”, in J. Baylis, S. Smith & P. Owens (eds.), The
Globalization of World Politics, 6th edition, Oxford University Press, pp. 198-211.
Sheehan, Michael. 2014. “The Changing Character of War”, in J. Baylis, S. Smith & P. Owens
(eds.), The Globalization of World Politics, 6th edition, Oxford University Press, pp. 215-228.
Smith, James. 2014. How (Not) To Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor, Grand
Rapids/Cambridge, Eerdmans.
Smith, S., Owens, P. & Baylis, J. 2014. “Introduction”, in J. Baylis, S. Smith & P. Owens (eds.),
The Globalization of World Politics, 6th edition, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-14.
Steger, Manfred. 2013. Globalization, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press.
Tomlinson, John. 2007. “Globalization and Cultural Analysis”, in D. Held & A. McGrew (eds.),
Globalization Theory, Cambridge, Polity, pp. 148-168.
Vertovec, Steve & Cohen, Robin. 2002. “Introduction: Conceiving Cosmopolitanism”, in S.
Vertovec & R. Cohen (eds.), Conceiving Cosmopolitanism, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-22.
Weiss, Thomas. 2013. Global Governance: Why? What? Whither? Cambridge, Polity.
Weissman, Fabrice. 2014. “Crisis and Humanitarian Containment”, in T. Weiss & R. Wilkinson
(eds.), International Organization and Global Governance, Abingdon, Routledge, pp. 500-511.
Wilkinson, Paul. 2007. International Relations, Oxford University Press.