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Barnett and Finnemore 2004
Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global PoliticsKey Ideas:IOs are not instruments of states, they are bureaucracies with authority to make rules, exercise powerAuthority gives IOs autonomyExamples: 1) IMF intrusion into national economies2) UNCHR Mission creep3) UN Secretariat's failure in Rwanda TERM 2
Boli and Thomas 1999
DEFINITION 2 Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875"Rational Volunteerism"INGO's role in the development of a world politySpread of INGOs since 1875 contributes to the spread of global institutional and cultural principlesTransnational organizations = historical process, creating rules and norms, change over time2 cases: social movements and technical and economic bodies TERM 3
Burgerman 2001
DEFINITION 3 Moral Victories: How Activists Provoke Multilateral ActionHow international pressure can change state behaviorFirst generation/Priority rights (political & civil freedoms) cultural and economic claimsEffective intervention = more likely when organized local actors are present with links to transnational and lobbying networksCases: the integration of human rights agendas into MINGUGUA and ONUSAL TERM 4
Chandler 2004
DEFINITION 4 Constructing Global Civil Society - Morality and power in IRProponents of global civil society overstate the role of nonstate actors in promoting normative change in IR -- Instead, there's an urgent need for governments to gain ore legitimacy in order to articulate accountable foreign policy. TERM 5
Evangelista 1999
DEFINITION 5 Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold WarA transnational movement of scientists and physicians armed only with ideas, data, acquaintenceship and a shared hate of nuclear war convinced the USSR to pursue de-escalation policy during the cold warcases: Pugwash Conference, Soviet American disarmament groups and IPPNW
Finnemore 1996
National Interests in International SocietyHow do states know what they want?The international system can change what states wantcases:UNHCRICRCMcNamara and Wold Bank TERM 7
Finnemore and Sikkink 1998
DEFINITION 7 "International Norm Dynamics and Political Change" (IO article)"Ideational turn" (constructivist) is really an old approach, we just got distracted with behaviorialism and microeconomicsThe challenge to the ideational turn is to explain change, not to explain stability1) Norm Emergence,
- Cascade, 3) Internalization TERM 8
Gruber 2000
DEFINITION 8 Ruling the World: Power Politics and the Rise of Supranational InstitutionsLosers participate in IOs because they know the winners have "go it alone power"Go-it-aloners are subject to domestic constraintsCases: NAFTA and EMU TERM 9
Haas 1992
DEFINITION 9 "Introduction: Epistemic Communities and International Policy Coordination" (IO)Basis of norms = political infiltration of an epistemic community into a governing institution - lays the groundwork for social acceptance TERM 10
Hasenclever, Mayer and Rittberger
DEFINITION 10 Theories of International Regimes12 findings about actors, norms, etc.Classification of 3 theories of regimes- interest- based theory- power-based theory- realist-theory
Keohane and Nye 1972
Transnational Relations and World Politics - Introduction (IO article)How do they affect interstate policy?--> they increase the sensitivity of societies to one another and this alters relations between governments TERM 17
Krasner 1983
DEFINITION 17 International RegimesImplicit or explicit principles, rules, norms or decision-making procedures around which actors' expectations converge in a given area of international relations.3 schools of regime thought: 1) Dominant, liberal, interest-based, 2) realist critique, 3) knowledge-based cognitive TERM 18
Newman and Sending 2010
DEFINITION 18 Governing the Global Polity: Practice, Mentality and RationalityFoucault and governmentality - States use NGOs and IOs to indirectly enforce social order and ultimately increase their own powerCritical of both realists and constructivists TERM 19
Risse-Kappen 1995
DEFINITION 19 Bringing Transnational Relations Back In: Non-State Actors, Domestic Structures and International InstitutionsThe impact of non-state actors depends on the institutional structure of states as well as international regimes and organizationsConstructivist with links to Habermas TERM 20
Rosenau and Czempiel 1992
DEFINITION 20 Governance without Government: Order and Change in World PoliticsGnvce w/o gvt = needs to fulfill basic functions (dealing with external challenges, preventing internal conflict, procuring resources, framing policy) anarchy because implies patterns, principles and normsTransnational issues - states are still sovereign but less so in some ways - authority has relocated to sub- and supranationalIs end of Cold War a new social order or not? Depends, but yes.
