Course Outline

Office: Room 89A Faculty Offices

Office Hours: 9:30 – 12:30 Tuesdays and with appointment.

WEEK	Topic & Readings
	Introducing International Law and It’s Sources Wallace, Rebecca. 2002. International Law. London: Sweet and Maxwell. Chapters 1 and 2.
	International Law and Municipal Law Wallace, Rebecca. 2002. International Law. London: Sweet and Maxwell. Chapters 3.
	Theorizing International Organizations Theorizing International Organizations by Jan Klabbers Hurd, Ian. 2011. Theorizing International Organizations: Choices and Methods in the Study of International Organizations. Journal of International Organizations Studies 2(2): 7-22. Political Approaches by Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore (in Handbook on the UN) Abbott, Kenneth W. and Duncan Snidal. 1998. Why States Act through Formal International Organizations. Journal of Conflict Resolution 42(1): 3-32.
	Evolution of IOs Finnemore, Martha. 1993. International organizations as teachers of norms: the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cutural Organization and science policy. International Organization 47(4): 565-597. Barnett, Michael N. and Martha Finnemore. 1999. The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations. International Organization 53(4): 699-732.
	Multilateral Diplomacy and IOs: Agenda Setting and Treaty Making Carpenter, Charli. 2007. Setting the Advocacy Agenda: Theorizing Issue Emergence and Nonemergence in Transnational Advocacy Networks. International Studies Quarterly 51: 99–120. Higgins, Rosalyn. 1970. The United Nations and Law-making: The Political Organs. The American Journal of International Law. 64(4): 37-48. Wallace, Rebecca. 2002. International Law. London: Sweet and Maxwell. Chapters 10.
	IOs addressing Development UN Development System by Jacques Fomerand and Dennis Dijkzeul (in Handbook on the UN) Human Development by Richard Jolly (in Handbook on the UN)
	World Trade Organisation World Trade Organization by Rorden Wilkinson (in Handbook on the UN) Understanding the WTO - https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/tif_e.htm
	IOs and their role in Protection of Human Rights Human Rights: Norms and Machinery by Natalie Samarasinghe (in Handbook on the UN) Humanitarian Action and Coordination by Jeff Crisp (in Handbook on the UN) Additional Readings Part VI of Handbook on the UN
	Regional Organisations – EU, SAARC, ASEAN, AU, OAS Barnett, Michael. 1995. Partners in peace? The UN, regional organizations, and peace-keeping. Review of International Studies 21: 411-433. Jetschke, Anja & Tobias Lenz. 2013. Does Regionalism Diffuse? A New Research Agenda For The Study Of Regional Organizations. Journal of European Public Policy 20(4): 626-637. European Union - https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-in-brief_en ASEAN - https://asean.org/ African Union - https://au.int/ OAS - http://www.oas.org/en/
	Regional Groupings – BRICS, IBSA, G-20 etc. de Castro, Armando. 2012. THE BRICS AS A COALITION: Analysing the Cooperation of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa in the International Monetary Fund and the G-20. London School of Economics and Political Science, Master’s Dissertation.
	Diplomatic and consular relations Wouters, Jan, Sanderijn Duquet and Katrien Meuwissen. 2013. The Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic and Consular Relations. In Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine, and Ramesh Thakur (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Denza, Eileen. 2019. Diplomatic and Consular Immunities – Trends and Challenges. In Tom Ruys, Nicolas Angelet and Luca Ferro (eds). The Cambridge Handbook of Immunities and International Law Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 433-451.
	International Adjudication - Readings on Other adjudicatory bodies like WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body, International Tribunal for the Law of Sea; Permanent Court of Arbitration. Rao, Pemmaraju Sreenivasa. 2004. Multiple International Judicial Forums: A Reflection of the Growing Strength of International Law or Its Fragmentation. Michigan Journal of International Law 25(4): 929-962 Powell, Emilia Justyna and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell. 2007. The International Court of Justice and the World’s Three Legal Systems. The Journal of Politics 69(2): 397-415.
	International Adjudication - International Criminal Court, Ad-hoc Tribunals. Matheson, Michael J. and David Scheffer. 2016. The Creation of the Tribunals. The American Journal of International Law. 110(2): 173-190. Laura A. Dickinson. 2003. The Promise of Hybrid Courts. The American Journal of International Law 97(2): 295-310.
	International Organizations and Terrorism Terrorism by Jane Boulden (in Handbook on the UN) Bergesen, Albert J. and Omar Lizardo. 2004. International Terrorism and the World-System. Sociological Theory 22(1): 38-52. Kramer, Hilde Haaland and Steve A. Yetiv. 2007. The UN Security Council's Response to Terrorism: Before and after September 11, 2001. Political Science Quarterly 122(3): 409-432.
	REVISION We will go over the topics covered throughout the semester and I will address any questions or doubts you may have. This is a good time for students to brainstorm for the final exam. This is mandatory class and attendance will be taken as usual.