Online Global Biblio

A Reading List on International Organizations

Yuhan Zhang

Yuhan Zhang

Professional of Global Strategic Account Management at LONGi Solar

August 5, 2020

This is a reading list I compiled on international organizations. Students, interns, professionals, and researchers may be interested. It contains mainly books and journal articles. For international organizations’ official publications, documents, speeches, voting records, meeting records, etc., please search the websites of respective international organizations.

Contents

  • Textbooks
  • Introduction to International Organizations
  • International Organizations and Global Governance
  • Institution: General Assembly
  • Institution: UN Security Council
  • Institution: Secretariats
  • Institution: Secretary-General and Executive Heads
  • Institution: The UN Reform
  • Institution: World Bank, International Monetary Fund
  • Institution: World Trade Organization
  • Institution: International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court
  • Institution: World Health Organization
  • Institution: International Labor Organization
  • Institution: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
  • Institution: G20
  • Institution: European Union
  • Institution: Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
  • Institution: World Economic Forum
  • The Design and Transition of International Organizations
  • Multilateral Diplomacy in International Organizations
  • Internal Work of International Organizations
  • Knowledge and Norms in International Organizations
  • Financing International Organizations
  • Relationship between International Organizations
  • Stakeholder: Civil Society and NGOs
  • Stakeholder: Business Sector
  • United States’ Influence on International Organizations
  • China’s Influence on International Organizations
  • Developing Countries’ Influence on International Organizations
  • Issue: Peacekeeping
  • Issue: Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Intervention
  • Issue: Humanitarian Assistance
  • Issue: Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
  • Issue: Counterterrorism
  • Issue: Refugees
  • Issue: Human Rights
  • Issue: Development
  • Issue: Global Environmental Governance
  • Issue: Climate Change
  • Issue: Global Internet Governance, Cyber Security
  • Case Study: Negotiations of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • Careers in International Organizations

Textbooks

  • Jussi M. Hanhimäki, The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2015.
  • Thomas G. Weiss, Rorden Wilkinson, International Organization and Global Governance, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2018.
  • Ian Hurd, International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice, 3rd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  • Volker Rittberger, Bernhard Zangl, Andreas Kruck, Hylke Dijkstra, International Organization, 3rd edition, Springer, 2019.
  • Thomas G. Weiss, David P. Forsythe, Roger A. Coate, Kelly-Kate Pease, 2016, The United Nations and Changing World Politics, 8th edition, Westview Press, 2016.
  • Jacob Katz Cogan, Ian Hurd, Ian Johnstone, The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • Thomas G. Weiss, Sam Daws, The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2018.

Introduction to International Organizations

  • International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice, Chapter 1: Introduction to International Organizations; Chapter 11: Conclusion.
  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 16: The UN System.
  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 1: A brief history of the UN; Chapter 2: the structure of the United Nations.

Optional:

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 5: International Organizations, 1945–Present, Chapter 6: Formal Inter-Governmental Organizations, Chapter 7: Supranational Organizations, Chapter 8: Private Transnational Governance.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 1: The United Nations: Continuity and Change.
  • 丹羽 敏之，《生まれ変わっても国連 国連36年の真実》，人間と歴史社，2019。
  • Jean-Marc de La Sablière, Indispensable ONU, Plon, 2017.
  • Kofi A. Annan, We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century, Routledge, 2014.

International Organizations and Global Governance

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Introduction: From International Organization to Global Governance.
  • The United Nations and Changing World Politics, Introduction.
  • Amitav Acharya, Dan Plesch, “The United Nations: Managing and Reshaping a Changing World Order,” Global Governance, Vol. 26, Issue 2, 2020.

Optional:

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 1: The Emergence of Global Governance; Chapter 3: International Organizations and the Diffusion of Power; Chapter 4: The Diffusion of Authority; Chapter 5: Who Governs the Globe?
  • Volker Rittberger, et al, International Organization, Chapter 4: International Organizations as Political Systems; Chapter 13: Between a World State and International Anarchy: Images of World Order
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 1: International Organizations in World Politics; Chapter 43: Multilateralism and the Changing World Order; Chapter 45: The UN’s Role in a Changing Global Landscape.
  • Thomas G. Weiss, Rorden Wilkinson, Rethinking Global Governance, Polity, 2019.
  • Anders Wivel, T.V. Paul, International Institutions and Power Politics: Bridging the Divide, Georgetown University Press, 2019.
  • Thomas Hale, David Held, Beyond Gridlock, Polity, 2017, Chapter 1: Introduction: Pathways beyond Gridlock; Chapter 13: Conclusion: Breaking the Cycle of Gridlock.
  • Karen J. Alter, Kal Raustiala, “The Rise of International Regime Complexity,” Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 14, 2018.

Institution: General Assembly

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 17: The UN General Assembly.
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 35: General Assemblies and Assemblies of States Parties.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 6: General Assembly.

Optional:

  • Mette Holm & Mogens Lykketoft, Serving the World: 15 Months for the UN, Rosinante, 2017.
  • Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, A Year at the Helm of the United Nations General Assembly: A Vision for our Century, NYU Press, 2014.
  • Samuel Brazys & Diana Panke, “Push and pull forces in the UNGA: analyzing foreign policy change in the context of international norms,” International Politics, Vol 54, 2017.
  • Samuel Brazys & Diana Panke, “Why do states change positions in the United Nations General Assembly?” International Political Science Review, Vol 38, Issue 1, 2015.
  • David B. Carter & Randall W. Stone, “Democracy and Multilateralism: The Case of Vote Buying in the UN General Assembly,” International Organization, Vol. 69, Issue 1, 2015.

Institution: UN Security Council

  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 3: the UN Security Council in action.
  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 32: UN Security Council and Peace Operations.
  • International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice, Chapter 4: The United Nations II: International Peace and Security.
  • Volker Rittberger, et al, International Organization, Chapter 8: Peace and Security.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 7: Security Council.

Optional:

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 28: Sanctions; Chapter 29: Use of Force.
  • The United Nations and Changing World Politics, Chapter 1: The Theory and Practice of UN Collective Security; Chapter 2: UN Security Efforts During the Cold War; Chapter 3: UN Security Operations After the Cold War, 1988–1998; Chapter 4: Security Operations Since 1999; Chapter 5: Confronting Contemporary Challenges.
  • Jean-Marc de La Sablière, Le Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies: Ambitions et limites, Larcier, 2015.
  • Jean-Marc de La Sablière, Dans les coulisses du monde, Robert Laffont, 2013.
  • Ronald Niezen, Palaces of Hope: The Anthropology of Global Organizations, Cambridge University Press, 2017, Chapter 3: Horseshoe and Catwalk: Power, Complexity, and Consensus-Making in the United Nations Security Council.
  • Courtney B. Smith, “Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud: Working Methods in the UN Security Council,” Global Governance, Vol. 26, Issue 2, 2020.
  • Peter Nadin, UN Security Council Reform, Routledge, 2018.
  • Vesselin Popovski, Trudy Fraser, The Security Council as Global Legislator, Routledge, 2016.
  • Ann-Marie Ekengren, Fredrik D. Hjorthen, “A Nonpermanent Seat in the United Nations Security Council: Why Bother?” Global Governance, Vol. 26, Issue 1, 2020.
  • John Langmore, Jeremy Farrall, “Can Elected Members Make a Difference in the UN Security Council? Australia’s Experience in 2013-2014,” Global Governance, Vol. 22, Issue 1, 2016.

Institution: Secretariats

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 39: Secretariats.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 11: The Secretariat: Independence and Reform.

Optional:

  • Bob Reinalda, International Secretariats: Two Centuries of International Civil Servants and Secretariats, Routledge, 2020.
  • Diane Stone, Kim Moloney, The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Oxford University Press, 2019, Chapter 1: The Rise of Global Policy and Transnational Administration; Chapter 21: Global Policy and Transnational Administration: Intellectual Currents in World Making; Chapter 27: Transnational Policy Communities and Regulatory Networks as Global Administration.
  • Bob Reinalda, “Institutional Development of the United Nations Secretariat,” Global Governance, Vol. 26, Issue 2, 2020.
  • Christoph Knill, Louisa Bayerlein, Jan Enkler, and Stephan Grohs, “Bureaucratic influence and administrative styles in international organizations,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol. 14, Issue 1, 2019.
  • Mareike Well, Barbara Saerbeck, “Between Mandate and Motivation: Bureaucratic Behavior in Global Climate Governance,” Global Governance, Vol. 26, Issue 1, 2020.
  • Thomas Hickmann, “The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat as an orchestrator in global climate policymaking,” International Review of Administrative Sciences, 2019.
  • Hylke Dijkstra, “Shadow Bureaucracies and the Unilateral Control of International Secretariats: Insights from UN Peacekeeping,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol.10, Issue 1, March 2015.

Institution: Secretary-General and Executive Heads

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 38: Executive Heads.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 12: Secretary-General.
  • Diane Stone, Kim Moloney, The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Oxford University Press, 2019, Chapter 37: Heads of International Organizations: Politicians, Diplomats, Managers.

Optional:

  • Nina Hall, Ngaire Woods, “Theorizing the role of executive heads in international organizations,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 24, Issue 4, 2018.
  • Ramesh Thakur, “Choosing the Ninth United Nations Secretary-General: Looking Back, Looking Ahead,” Global Governance, Vol. 23, Issue 1, 2017.
  • Franz Baumann, “United Nations Management—An Oxymoron?” Global Governance, Vol. 22, Issue 4, 2016.
  • Lucia Mouat, The United Nations’ Top Job: A Close Look at the Work of the Eight Secretaries-General, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.
  • Tom Plate, Conversations with Ban Ki-moon: What the United Nations Is Really Like, Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd, 2012.
  • Ellen Jenny Ravndal, “‘A Force for Peace’: Expanding the Role of the UN Secretary-General under Trygve Lie, 1946−1953,” Global Governance, Vol. 23, Issue 3, 2017.
  • Janos Pasztor, “The Role of United Nations Secretary-General in the Climate Change Process,” Global Policy, Vol. 7, Issue 3, 2016.

Institution: The UN Reform

  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 7: Reform and challenges.

Optional:

  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 44: Prospects for UN Renovation and Reform
  • Bertrand Ramcharan, “António Guterres’s Strategy for Modernizing the UN,” Global Governance, Vol. 25, Issue 1, 2019.
  • Catherine Bertini, Leading Change in United Nations Organizations, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, 2019.
  • M.-O. Baumann, “Forever North–South? The political challenges of reforming the UN development system,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 39, Issue 4, 2018.

Institution: World Bank, International Monetary Fund

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 42: Global Financial Governance.
  • International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice, Chapter 6: The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
  • Volker Rittberger, et al, International Organization, Chapter 10: Finance and Monetary Relations.
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 17: International Finance.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 14: Bretton Woods Institutions.

Optional:

  • Jeffry Frieden, “The Governance of International Finance,” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 19, 2016.
  • Eric Helleiner, “The life and times of embedded liberalism: legacies and innovations since Bretton Woods,” Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 26, No. 6, 2019.
  • Orfeo Fioretos, Eugénia C. Heldt, “Legacies and innovations in global economic governance since Bretton Woods,” Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 26, No. 6, 2019.
  • Thomas Hale, David Held, Beyond Gridlock, Polity, 2017, Chapter 2: Finance: Risk and Progress; 3 Monetary Policy: Making Fragmentation Work; Chapter 5 Investment: Contestation and Transformation.
  • Michel Camdessus, We Had a Chance: Thirteen Years at the Helm of the IMF, SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2017.
  • Alexander E. Kentikelenis, Sarah Babb, “The Making of Neoliberal Globalization: Norm Substitution and the Politics of Clandestine Institutional Change,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 124, No. 6, 2019.
  • Bernhard Reinsberg, Alexander Kentikelenis, Thomas Stubbs, Royal Holloway, Lawrence King, “The World System and the Hollowing Out of State Capacity: How Structural Adjustment Programs Affect Bureaucratic Quality in Developing Countries,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 124, No. 4, 2019.
  • Rush Doshi, Judith G. Kelley, Beth A. Simmons, “The Power of Ranking: The Ease of Doing Business Indicator and Global Regulatory Behavior,” International Organization, Vol. 73, Issue 3, 2019.
  • Michael Mikulewicz, Marcus Taylor, “Getting the Resilience Right: Climate Change and Development Policy in the ‘African Age’,” New Political Economy, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2020.
  • Christian Hernandez, “IMF flexibility or neoliberal adaptation: A discursive content analysis of Article IV policy biases in Argentina,” Governance, Vol. 33, Issue 1, 2020.
  • Ali Burak Güven, “Defending Supremacy: How the IMF and the World Bank Navigate the Challenge of Rising Powers,” International Affairs, Vol. 93, Issue 5, 2017.
  • Adrian Bazbauers, “The World Bank as a Development Teacher,” Global Governance, Vol. 22, Issue 3, 2016.
  • Jeffrey M. Chwieroth, “Controlling Capital: The International Monetary Fund and Transformative Incremental Change from Within International Organisations,” New Political Economy, Vol. 19, Issue 3, 2014.
  • Jacqueline Best, “Ambiguity and Uncertainty in International Organizations: A History of Debating IMF Conditionality,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 4, 2012.
  • Liam Clegg, “Global Governance Behind Closed Doors: The IMF Boardroom, the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility, and the Intersection of Material Power and Norm Stabilization in Global Politics,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol. 7, Issue 3, 2012.
  • Stephen C. Nelson, “Playing Favorites: How Shared Beliefs Shape the IMF’s Lending Decisions,” International Organization, Vol. 68, Issue 2, 2014.

Institution: World Trade Organization

  • International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice, Chapter 5: The World Trade Organization.
  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 43: Global Trade Governance.
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 16: Trade.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 15: World Trade Organization.

Optional:

  • Thomas Hale, David Held, Beyond Gridlock, Polity, 2017, Chapter 4: Trade: Gridlock and Resilience.
  • Ronald Niezen, Palaces of Hope: The Anthropology of Global Organizations, Cambridge University Press, 2017, Chapter 2: Heart of Darkness: An Exploration of the WTO.
  • Judith Goldstein, “Trading in the Twenty-First Century: Is There a Role for the World Trade Organization?” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 20, 2017.
  • Bernard M. Hoekman, Petros C. Mavroidis, World Trade Organization (WTO): Law, Economics, and Politics, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2016.
  • David Collins, The World Trade Organization: A Beginner’s Guide, Oneworld Publications, 2015.
  • Michal Parizek, Negotiations in the World Trade Organization: Design and Performance, Routledge, 2019.
  • Klaus Dingwerth, Clara Weinhardt, The Language of World Trade Politics: Unpacking the Terms of Trade, Routledge, 2018.
  • Kristen Hopewell, “US-China conflict in global trade governance: the new politics of agricultural subsidies at the WTO,” Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 26, Issue 2, 2019.
  • Kristen Hopewell, “The BRICS: Merely a Fable? Emerging Power Alliances in Global Trade Governance,” International Affairs, Vol. 93, Issue 6, 2017.
  • Matthew D. Stephen, Michal Parízek, “New Powers and the Distribution of Preferences in Global Trade Governance: From Deadlock and Drift to Fragmentation,” New Political Economy, Vol. 24, No. 6, 2019.
  • Rorden Wilkinson, Erin Hannah, James Scott, “The WTO in Nairobi: The Demise of the Doha Development Agenda and the Future of the Multilateral Trading System,” Global Policy, Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2016.
  • Erin Hannah, James Scott, Silke Trommer, Expert Knowledge in Global Trade, Routledge, 2017.
  • Kristen Hopewell, “Different paths to power: The Rise of Brazil, India and China at the World Trade Organization,” Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 22, Issue 2, 2015.
  • Baccini Leonardo, Soo Yeon Kim, “Preventing protectionism: International institutions and trade policy,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2012.
  • Aydin B. Yildirim, J. Tyson Chatagnier, Arlo Poletti， Dirk De Bièvre, “The Internationalization of Production and the Politics of Compliance in WTO Disputes,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2018.
  • Ryan Brutger, Julia C. Morse, “Balancing Law and Politics: Judicial Incentives in WTO Dispute Settlement,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2015.

Institution: International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 37: The Pursuit of International Justice.
  • International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice, Chapter 8: The International Court of Justice; Chapter 9: The International Criminal Court.
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 41: International Adjudicative Bodies.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 10: International Court of Justice; Chapter 31: International Criminal Court and Ad Hoc Tribunals.

Optional:

  • Ronald Niezen, Palaces of Hope: The Anthropology of Global Organizations, Cambridge University Press, 2017, Chapter 12: Propaganda on Trial: Structural Fragility and the Epistemology of International Legal Institutions.
  • Oumar Ba, States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
  • Yvonne Dutton, Rules, Politics, and the International Criminal Court: Committing to the Court, Routledge, 2016.
  • Tonya L. Putnam, “Mingling and Strategic Augmentation of International Legal Obligations,” International Organization, Vol. 74, Issue 1, 2020.
  • Alyssa K. Prorok, “The (In)compatibility of Peace and Justice? The International Criminal Court and Civil Conflict Termination,” International Organization, Vol. 71, Issue 2, 2017.
  • Hyeran Jo, Beth A. Simmons, “Can the International Criminal Court Deter Atrocity?” International Organization, Vol. 70, Issue 3, 2016.

Institution: World Health Organization

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 54: Global Health Governance.
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 21: Health.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 37: Health and Infectious Disease.

Optional:

  • Colin McInnes, Kelley Lee, Jeremy Youde, The Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics, Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Diane Stone, Kim Moloney, The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Oxford University Press, 2019, Chapter 31: Governance and Administration in Global Health Organizations: Considering the Legacies of the ‘Golden Era’ of Global Health Policy?
  • Thomas Hale, David Held, Beyond Gridlock, Polity, 2017, Chapter 9: Health: New Leadership for Devastating Challenges.
  • Martin Weber, “From Alma Ata to the SDGs: The Politics of Global Health Governance and the Elusive ‘Health for All’,” Global Governance, Vol. 26, Issue 1, 2020.
  • Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, Emergency Powers of International Organizations: Between Normalization and Containment, Oxford University Press, 2020. Chapter 6: WHO Emergency Powers for Global Health Security.
  • Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, “China vs the WHO: a behavioural norm conflict in the SARS crisis,” International Affairs, Vol. 95, Issue 3, 2019.
  • Tine Hanrieder, “The Path-dependent Design of International Organizations: Federalism in the World Health Organization,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 21, Issue 1, 2015.
  • Erin R. Graham, “International Organizations as Collective Agents: Fragmentation and the Limits of Principal Control at the World Health Organization,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2014.

Institution: International Labor Organization

  • International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice, Chapter 7: The International Labor Organization.
  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 26: Labor.
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 22: Labour.

Optional:

  • Faradj Koliev, Thomas Sommerer, and Jonas Tallberg. “Compliance without Coercion: Effects of Reporting on International Labor Rights.” Journal of Peace Research, June 2020.

Institution: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

  • Richard Jolly, UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund): Global Governance That Works, Routledge, 2014.

Institution: G20

  • Peter I. Hajnal, The G20: Evolution, Interrelationships, Documentation, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2019.

Optional:

  • Steven Slaughter, The G20 and International Relations Theory: Perspectives on Global Summitry, Edward Elgar Pub, 2019.
  • Steven Slaughter, The Power of the G20: The Politics of Legitimacy in Global Governance, Routledge, 2019.
  • Diane Stone, Kim Moloney, The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Oxford University Press, 2019, Chapter 36: Global Summitry as Sites of Transnational Technocratic Management and Policy Contestation.
  • Tom Chodor, “The G-20 Since the Global Financial Crisis: Neither Hegemony nor Collectivism,” Global Governance, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2017.
  • Ren Xiao, “A Reform-minded Status Quo Power? China, the G20, and Reform of the International Financial System,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 36, Issue 11, 2015.

Institution: European Union

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 19: The European Union.
  • International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice, Chapter 10: The European Union and Regional Organizations.

Optional:

  • Olivier Costa, Nathalie Brack, How the EU Really Works, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2018.
  • Fritz W. Scharpf, Community and Autonomy: Institutions, Policies and Legitimacy in Multilevel Europe, University of Chicago Press, 2010.
  • Yanis Varoufakis, Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment, Bodley Head, 2017.
  • Katharina Michaelowa, Bernhard Reinsberg, Christina J. Schneider, “The Politics of Double Delegation in the European Union,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol, 62, No. 4, 2018.

Institution: Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

  • Donald E. Weatherbee, ASEAN’s Half Century: A Political History of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019.

Optional:

  • Marty Natalegawa, Does ASEAN Matter?: A View from Within, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, 2018.
  • David Carden, Mapping ASEAN: Achieving Peace, Prosperity, and Sustainability in Southeast Asia, Indiana University Press, 2019.
  • Jürgen Rüland, The Indonesian Way: ASEAN, Europeanization, and Foreign Policy Debates in a New Democracy, Stanford University Press, 2017.
  • Ki-Hyun Bae, “ASEAN as a Community of Managerial Practices,” Global Governance, Vol. 23, Issue 2, 2017.
  • Chung-In Moon, Chae-Kwang You, “The ASEAN Regional Forum’s Experts and Eminent Persons Group: Achievements, Limitations, Prospects,” Global Governance, Vol. 23, Issue 3, 2017.

Institution: World Economic Forum

  • Elizabeth Friesen, The World Economic Forum and Transnational Networking, Emerald Publishing, 2020.
  • Optional:
  • Christina Garsten, Adrienne Sörbom, Discreet Power: How the World Economic Forum Shapes Market Agendas, Stanford University Press, 2018.

The Design and Transition of International Organizations

  • Erik Voeten, “Making Sense of the Design of International Institutions,” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 22, 2019.

Optional:

  • Liesbet Hooghe, Tobias Lenz, and Gary Marks, A Theory of International Organization, Oxford University Press, 2019.
  • Phillip Y. Lipscy, Renegotiating the World Order: Institutional Change in International Relations, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  • Michael W. Manulak, “Leading by Design: Informal Influence and International Secretariats,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol. 12, Issue 4, 2017.
  • Tana Johnson, Organizational Progeny: Why Governments are Losing Control over the Proliferating Structures of Global Governance, Oxford University Press, 2014.
  • Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, “Death of international organizations. The organizational ecology of intergovernmental organizations, 1815–2015,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol. 15, Issue 2, 2020.
  • Bernhard Zang, Frederick Heußner, Andreas Kruck, Xenia Lanzendörfer, “Imperfect Adaptation: How the WTO and the IMF Adjust to Shifting Power Distributions Among Their Members,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol. 11, Issue 2, 2016.
  • Ali Burak Güven, “Defending Supremacy: How the IMF and the World Bank Navigate the Challenge of Rising Powers,” International Affairs, Vol. 93, Issue 5, 1 September 2017.
  • Tine Hanrieder, “The Path-dependent Design of International Organizations: Federalism in the World Health Organization,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 21, Issue 1, 2015.
  • Dane Imerman, “Contested Legitimacy and Institutional Change: Unpacking the Dynamics of Institutional Legitimacy,” International Studies Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2017.
  • Michael W. Manulak, “A bird in the hand: Temporal focal points and change in international institutions,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol. 15, Issue 1, 2020.

Multilateral Diplomacy in International Organizations

  • Rebecca W. Gaudiosi, Jimena Leiva Roesch and Wu Ye-Min, Negotiating at the United Nations: A Practitioner’s Guide, Routledge, 2019.

Optional:

  • Gert Rosenthal, Inside the United Nations: Multilateral Diplomacy up Close, Routledge, 2017.
  • Vincent Pouliot, International Pecking Orders: The Politics and Practice of Multilateral Diplomacy, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Internal Work of International Organizations

  • Volker Rittberger, et al, International Organization, Chapter 5 Input: Actors’ Demands and Support; Chapter 6: Conversion: Decision-making in International Organizations; Chapter 7: Output: What International Organizations Produce.

Optional:

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 43: Organizational Culture.
  • Xu Yi-chong, Patrick Weller, The Working World of International Organizations: Authority, Capacity, Legitimacy, Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • Xu Yi-chong, Patrick Weller, The Politics of International Organizations: Views from insiders, Routledge, 2015.
  • Valentina Mele, Giulia Cappellaro, “Cross-level coordination among international organizations: Dilemmas and practices,” Public Administration, Vol. 96, Issue 4, 2018.
  • Sven Güsmann, “Thinking Outside the United Nations Box: Barriers to Creativity within the UN System,” Global Policy, Vol. 6, Issue 1. 2015.
  • James Raymond Vreeland, “Corrupting International Organizations,” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 22, 2019.
  • Jacqueline Best, “Ambiguity and Uncertainty in International Organizations: A History of Debating IMF Conditionality,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 4, 2012.
  • Diane Stone, Kim Moloney, The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Oxford University Press, 2019, Chapter 24: Transnational Administration from the Beginning: The Importance of Charisma in Shaping International Organizational Norms.

Knowledge and Norms in International Organizations

  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 5: Evolution in Knowledge and Norms.

Optional:

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 28: Think Tanks and Global Policy Networks.
  • Diane Stone, Kim Moloney, The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Oxford University Press, 2019, Chapter 22: Knowledge Networks, Scientific Communities, and Evidence-Informed Policy; Chapter 26: The Agenda Setting Capacity of Global Networks.
  • James G. McGann, Laura C. Whelan, Global Think Tanks: Policy Networks and Governance, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2020.
  • Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, The Politics of Expertise in International Organizations: How International Bureaucracies Produce and Mobilize Knowledge, Routledge, 2018.
  • Nanette Svenson, The United Nations as a Knowledge System, Routledge, 2015.
  • Ronald Niezen, Palaces of Hope: The Anthropology of Global Organizations, Cambridge University Press, 2017, Chapter 7: Expertise and Quantification in Global Institutions.
  • Alexander E. Kentikelenis, Sarah Babb, “The Making of Neoliberal Globalization: Norm Substitution and the Politics of Clandestine Institutional Change,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 124, No. 6, 2019.
  • Michael Franczak, “Losing the Battle, Winning the War: Neoconservatives versus the New International Economic Order, 1974–82,” Diplomatic History, Vol. 43, Issue 5, 2019.
  • André Broome, Alexandra Homolar, Matthias Kranke, “Bad science: International organizations and the indirect power of global benchmarking,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 24, Issue 3, 2018.
  • Rush Doshi, Judith G. Kelley, Beth A. Simmons, “The Power of Ranking: The Ease of Doing Business Indicator and Global Regulatory Behavior,” International Organization, Vol. 73, Issue 3, 2019.
  • Jennifer Hadden, Lucia A. Seybert, “What’s in a Norm? Mapping the Norm Definition Process in the Debate on Sustainable Development,” Global Governance, Vol. 22, Issue 2, 2016.
  • Bentley B. Allan, “Second Only to Nuclear War: Science and the Making of Existential Threat in Global Climate Governance,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 61, Issue 4, 2017.
  • Chaewoon Oh, “Discursive Contestation on Technological Innovation and the Institutional Design of the UNFCCC in the New Climate Change Regime,” New Political Economy, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2020.
  • Pierre-Bruno Ruffini, “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Science-Diplomacy Nexus,” Global Policy, Vol. 9, Supplement 3, 2018.

Financing International Organizations

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 42: Financing and Budgets.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 13: Financing.

Optional:

  • Diane Stone, Kim Moloney, The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Oxford University Press, 2019, Chapter 29: Evolving Funding Patterns of Global Programs and their Impacts on Governance and Operations.
  • Bayram A. Burcu, Erin R. Graham, “Financing the United Nations: Explaining variation in how donors provide funding to the UN,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2017.
  • Erin R. Graham, “The Institutional Design of Funding Rules at International Organizations: Explaining the Transformation in Financing the United Nations,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2017.
  • Jacob D. Kathman, Molly M. Melin, “Who Keeps the Peace? Understanding State Contributions to UN Peacekeeping Operations,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 61, Issue 1, 2017.

Relationship between International Organizations

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 32: Relations with Other International Organizations

Optional:

  • Devin Joshi and Roni Kay Thomass G. Weiss, Martin Weiz, “The UN and the African Union in Mali and beyond: a Shotgun Wedding?” International Affairs, Vol.90, Issue 4, July 2014.

Stakeholder: Civil Society and NGOs

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 25: Civil Society and NGOs.
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 33: Relations with Civil Society.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 18: Non-governmental Organizations.
  • Diane Stone, Kim Moloney, The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Oxford University Press, 2019, Chapter 9: Transnational Civil Society and Global Public Policy: Opportunities and Obstacles in the Twenty-First Century.

Optional:

  • Oliver Fox, Peter Stoett, “Citizen Participation in the UN Sustainable Development Goals Consultation Process: Toward Global Democratic Governance?” Global Governance, Vol. 22, Issue 4, 2016.
  • Jen Iris Allan, “Seeking Entry: Discursive Hooks and NGOs in Global Climate Politics,” Global Policy, Vol. 9, Issue 4, 2018.
  • Katharina Rietig, “The Power of Strategy: Environmental NGO Influence in International Climate Negotiations,” Global Governance, Vol. 22, Issue 2, 2017.
  • Jonas Tallberg, Lisa Maria Dellmuth, Hans Agné, Andreas K. Duit, “NGO Influence in International Organizations: Information, Access, and Exchange,” British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 48, Issue 1, 2018.

Stakeholder: Business Sector

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 24: Global Corporations.
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 34: Relations with the Private Sector.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 19: Private Sector.

Optional:

  • Karsten Ronit, Global Business Associations, Routledge, 2018.
  • Diane Stone, Kim Moloney, The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Oxford University Press, 2019, Chapter 32: Organized Business and Global Public Policy: Administration, Participation, and Regulation; Chapter 33: The Role of Large Management Consultancy Firms in Global Public Policy.

United States’ Influence on International Organizations

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 22: US Hegemony.

Optional:

  • Alynna J. Lyon, US Politics and the United Nations: A Tale of Dysfunctional Dynamics, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2016.
  • Nikki R. Haley, With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace, St. Martin’s Press, 2019.
  • Susan Rice, Tough Love: My Story of the Things worth Fighting For, Simon & Schuster, 2019, Part Three: The Big Leagues.
  • Zalmay Khalilzad, The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World, St. Martin’s Press, 2016, Chapter 25: Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York, 2007–2009.
  • Alexander E. Kentikelenis, Sarah Babb, “The Making of Neoliberal Globalization: Norm Substitution and the Politics of Clandestine Institutional Change,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 124, No. 6, 2019.
  • Tonya L. Putnam, “Mingling and Strategic Augmentation of International Legal Obligations,” International Organization, Vol. 74, Issue 1, 2020.
  • Dan Alexander, Bryan Rooney, “Vote-Buying by the United States in the United Nations,” International Studies Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 1, 2019.
  • David B. Carter, Randall W. Stone, “Democracy and Multilateralism: The Case of Vote Buying in the UN General Assembly,” International Organization, Vol. 69, Issue 1, 2015.
  • Alexander Thompson, “Channels of Power: The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq,” Cornell University Press, 2019.

China’s Influence on International Organizations

  • 张贵洪，《中国与联合国》，江苏人民出版社，2019。
  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 23: China and Global Governance.

Optional:

  • Jeffrey Feltman, China’s Expanding Influence at the United Nations—And How the United States Should React, Brookings Institution, 2020.
  • Scott L. Kastner, Margaret M. Pearson, Chad Rector, China’s Strategic Multilateralism: Investing in Global Governance, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
  • Scott L. Kastner, Margaret M. Pearson, Chad Rector, “China and Global Governance: Opportunistic Multilateralism,” Global Policy, Vol. 11, Issue 1, 2020.
  • Scott Kennedy, Global Governance and China: The Dragon’s Learning Curve, Routledge, 2017.
  • Courtney J. Fung, “Providing for Global Security: Implications of China’s Combat Troop Deployment to UN Peacekeeping,” Global Governance, Vol. 25, Issue 4, 2019.
  • Courtney J. Fung, China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status, Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • Rosemary Foot, China, the UN, and Human Protection: Beliefs, Power, Image, Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Jakub Jakóbowski, “Chinese-led Regional Multilateralism in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America: 16+1, FOCAC, and CCF,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 27, Issue 113, 2018.
  • Ren Xiao, “A Reform-minded Status Quo Power? China, the G20, and Reform of the International Financial System,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 36, Issue 11, 2015.
  • Yongjin Zhang, Barry Buzan, “China and the Global Reach of Human Rights,” The China Quarterly, Vol. 241, 2020.
  • Sun Meng, Lu Haina, “China and the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council: Is China Cooperative and Can They Work Better With Each Other?” Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2020.
  • Jing Tao, “China’s Socialization in the International Human Rights Regime: why did China reject the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court?” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 24, No. 96, 2015.
  • 秦华孙，《出使联合国》，新华出版社，2010。
  • 朱杰进，《中国与全球经济治理机制变革》，上海人民出版社，2020。

Developing Countries’ Influence on International Organizations

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 20: The BRICS in the Evolving Architecture of Global Governance; Chapter 21: The Global South.

Optional:

  • Ronald Niezen, Palaces of Hope: The Anthropology of Global Organizations, Cambridge University Press, 2017, Chapter 9: Global Village Courts: International Organizations and the Bureaucratization of Rural Justice Systems in the Global South.
  • Sikina Jinnah, “Makers, Takers, Shakers, Shapers: Emerging Economies and Normative Engagement in Climate Governance,” Global Governance, Vol. 23, Issue 2, 2017.
  • Kristen Hopewell, “The BRICS: Merely a Fable? Emerging Power Alliances in Global Trade Governance,” International Affairs, Vol. 93, Issue 6, 2017.
  • Kristen Hopewell, “Different paths to power: The Rise of Brazil, India and China at the World Trade Organization,” Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 22, Issue 2, 2015.
  • Erna Ulloa Castillo, Cristian Medina Valverde, “Outline of a Diplomatic Leader in the International Community: Hernán Santa Cruz and his Works at the United Nations,” Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 41, Nov. 4, 2019.
  • Edgar Dosman, The Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch, 1901-1986, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.

Issue: Peacekeeping

  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 4: Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding.
  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 32: UN Security Council and Peace Operations; Chapter 40: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding.
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 9: Peace Operations.

Optional:

  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 22: Peaceful Settlement of Disputes and Conflict Prevention; Chapter 23: Peace Operations; Chapter 25: Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect; Chapter 26: Peacebuilding.
  • Diane Stone, Kim Moloney, The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Oxford University Press, 2019, Chapter 39: The United Nations, Peacekeepers, and Accountability.
  • Jean-Marie Guéhenno, The Fog of Peace: A Memoir of International Peacekeeping in the 21st Century, Brookings Institution Press, 2015.
  • Manuel Fröhlich, Leadership for Peace: Special Representatives of the UN Secretary-General and their Work for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security, Bloomsbury, 2017.
  • Lise Morjé Howard, Anjali Kaushlesh Dayal, “The Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping,” International Organization, Vol. 72, Issue 1, 2018.
  • Susan Hannah Allen, Amy T. Yuen, “The Politics of Peacekeeping: UN Security Council Oversight across Peacekeeping Missions,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 58, Issue 3, 2014.
  • Hylke Dijkstra, “Shadow Bureaucracies and the Unilateral Control of International Secretariats: Insights from UN Peacekeeping,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol.10, Issue 1, March 2015.
  • Jacob D. Kathman, Molly M. Melin, “Who Keeps the Peace? Understanding State Contributions to UN Peacekeeping Operations,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 61, Issue 1, 2017.

Issue: Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Intervention

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 36: Humanitarian Intervention and Responsibility to Protect.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 25: Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect.

Optional:

  • Ashley Jonathan Clements, Humanitarian Negotiations with Armed Groups: The Frontlines of Diplomacy, Routledge, 2020.
  • Elizabeth M. Bruch, Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention: Law and Practice in the Field, Routledge, 2018.

Issue: Humanitarian Assistance

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 39: Crisis and Humanitarian Containment.
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 14: Humanitarian Action.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 32: Humanitarian Action and Coordination.

Optional:

  • Daniel G Maxwell, Kirsten Gelsdorf, Understanding the Humanitarian World, Routledge, 2020.
  • Thomas Hale, David Held, Beyond Gridlock, Polity, 2017, Chapter 7: Humanitarianism: Stagnation, Fragmentation, and Possibilities.
  • Ronald Niezen, Palaces of Hope: The Anthropology of Global Organizations, Cambridge University Press, 2017, Chapter 8: From Boardrooms to Field Programs: Humanitarianism and International Development in Southern Africa.

Issue: Non-Proliferation and Disarmament

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 11: Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 21: Arms Control and Disarmament.
  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 33: Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Optional:

  • 中満 泉，《危機の現場に立つ》，講談社，2017。
  • Thomas Hale, David Held, Beyond Gridlock, Polity, 2017, Chapter 12: Weapons of Mass Destruction: Incremental Steps.
  • Allison Carnegie, Austin Carson, “The Disclosure Dilemma: Nuclear Intelligence and International Organizations,” American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 63, No. 2, 2019.

Issue: Counterterrorism

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 35: Counterterrorism Cooperation and Global Governance.
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 10: Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 27: Terrorism.

Optional:

  • Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, Emergency Powers of International Organizations: Between Normalization and Containment, Oxford University Press, 2020. Chapter 4: Emergency Powers of the UN Security Council: Law Making and Law Breaking in Counter-terrorism.

Issue: Refugees

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 53: Refugees and Migrants
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 15: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons.

Optional:

  • Sarah Deardorff Miller, UNHCR as a Surrogate State: Protracted Refugee Situations, Routledge, 2017.

Issue: Human Rights

  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 6: Human rights to human security.
  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 36: Human rights.
  • Volker Rittberger, et al, International Organization, Chapter 12: Human Rights.
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 12: Human Rights.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 30: Human Rights: Norms and Machinery.

Optional:

  • The United Nations and Changing World Politics, Chapter 6: The United Nations, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Affairs; Chapter 7: Applying Human Rights Standards: The Roles of the First and Second UN; Chapter 8: The Third UN in Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs: The Role of Independent Experts and NGOs; Chapter 9: Theories of Change.
  • Thomas Hale, David Held, Beyond Gridlock, Polity, 2017, Chapter 8: Human rights: Leveraging Compliance.
  • Ronald Niezen, Palaces of Hope: The Anthropology of Global Organizations, Cambridge University Press, 2017, Chapter 5: The ‘Public’ Character of the Universal Periodic Review: Contested Concept and Methodological Challenge; Chapter 6: Meeting “the World” at the Palais Wilson: Embodied Universalism at the UN Human Rights Committee.
  • Simon Hug, Richard Lukacs, “Preferences or Blocks? Voting in the United Nations Human Rights Council,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2014.
  • Yongjin Zhang, Barry Buzan, “China and the Global Reach of Human Rights,” The China Quarterly, Vol. 241, 2020.
  • Sun Meng, Lu Haina, “China and the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council: Is China Cooperative and Can They Work Better With Each Other?” Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2020.
  • Jing Tao, “China’s Socialization in the International Human Rights Regime: why did China reject the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court?” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 24, No. 96, 2015.

Issue: Development

  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 5: Economic development to human development.
  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 44: Global Development Governance; Chapter 48: Sustainable Development Governance.
  • Volker Rittberger, et al, International Organization, Chapter 9: Trade and Development.
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 19: Development.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 36: UN Development System; Chapter 41: Human Development; Chapter 42: Sustainable Development Goals.

Optional:

  • The United Nations and Changing World Politics, Chapter 10: Theories of Development at the United Nations; Chapter 11: Sustainable Development as Process: UN Organizations and Norms; Chapter 12: The UN and Development in a Globalizing World.
  • Felix Dodds, Jorge Laguna-Celis, Liz Thompson, From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda: Building a Bridge to a Sustainable Future, Routledge, 2014.
  • Jennifer Hadden, Lucia A. Seybert, “What’s in a Norm? Mapping the Norm Definition Process in the Debate on Sustainable Development,” Global Governance, Vol. 22, Issue 2, 2016.

Issue: Global Environmental Governance

  • Volker Rittberger, et al, International Organization, Chapter 11: The Environment.
  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 45: Global Environmental Governance.
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 20: Environment.

Optional:

  • Elizabeth R. DeSombre, Global Environmental Institutions, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2017.
  • Frank Biermann, Rakhyun E. Kim, Architectures of Earth System Governance: Institutional Complexity and Structural Transformation, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
  • Maria Ivanova, A Revisionist History of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty, The MIT Press, 2021.
  • Michael W. Manulak, “Leading by Design: Informal Influence and International Secretariats,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol. 12, Issue 4, 2017.
  • Thomas Hale, “Transnational Actors and Transnational Governance in Global Environmental Politics,” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 23, 2020.
  • Ronald B. Mitchell, Liliana B. Andonova, Mark Axelrod, et al, “What We Know (and Could Know) About International Environmental Agreements,” Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 20, Issue 1, 2020.
  • Jonathan Pickering, “Deliberative Ecologies: Complexity and Social–Ecological Dynamics in International Environmental Negotiations,” Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 19, Issue 2, 2019.

Issue: Climate Change

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 47: Climate Change.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 39: Climate Change.
  • David Held, Charles Roger, “Three Models of Global Climate Governance: From Kyoto to Paris and Beyond,” Global Policy, Vol. 9, Issue 4, 2018.

Optional:

  • Arild Underdal, “Climate Change and International Relations (After Kyoto),” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 20, 2017.
  • Robert Falkner, “The Paris Agreement and the new logic of international climate politics,” International Affairs, Vol. 92, Issue 5, 2016.
  • Jen Iris Allan, “Dangerous Incrementalism of the Paris Agreement,” Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 19, Issue 1, 2019.
  • Thomas Hale, David Held, Beyond Gridlock, Polity, 2017, Chapter 10: Climate: From Gridlock to Catalyst.
  • Janos Pasztor, “The Role of United Nations Secretary-General in the Climate Change Process,” Global Policy, Vol. 7, Issue 3, 2016.
  • Mareike Well, Barbara Saerbeck, “Between Mandate and Motivation: Bureaucratic Behavior in Global Climate Governance,” Global Governance, Vol. 26, Issue 1, 2020.
  • Thomas Hickmann, “The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat as an orchestrator in global climate policymaking,” International Review of Administrative Sciences, 2019.
  • Jonathan Kuyper, Heike Schroeder, and Bjorn-Ola Linnér, “The Evolution of the UNFCCC,” Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 43, 2018.
  • Mark Vardy, Michael Oppenheimer, Navroz K. Dubash, et al, “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities,” Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 42, 2017.
  • Gorana Draguljić, “The Climate Change Regime Complex: Path Dependence amidst Institutional Change,” Global Governance, Vol. 25, Issue 3, 2019.
  • Jen Iris Allan, “Seeking Entry: Discursive Hooks and NGOs in Global Climate Politics,” Global Policy, Vol. 9, Issue 4, 2018.
  • Ronald Niezen, Palaces of Hope: The Anthropology of Global Organizations, Cambridge University Press, 2017, Chapter 10: Contrasting Values of Forests and Ice in the Making of a Global Climate Agreement.
  • Bentley B. Allan, “Second Only to Nuclear War: Science and the Making of Existential Threat in Global Climate Governance,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 61, Issue 4, 2017.
  • Chaewoon Oh, “Discursive Contestation on Technological Innovation and the Institutional Design of the UNFCCC in the New Climate Change Regime,” New Political Economy, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2020.
  • Pierre-Bruno Ruffini, “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Science-Diplomacy Nexus,” Global Policy, Vol. 9, Supplement 3, 2018.
  • Sikina Jinnah, “Makers, Takers, Shakers, Shapers: Emerging Economies and Normative Engagement in Climate Governance,” Global Governance, Vol. 23, Issue 2, 2017.
  • Katharina Rietig, “The Power of Strategy: Environmental NGO Influence in International Climate Negotiations,” Global Governance, Vol. 22, Issue 2, 2017.

Issue: Global Internet Governance, Cyber Security

  • International Organization and Global Governance, Chapter 54: Global Internet Governance.
  • The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Chapter 25: Communications and the Internet.
  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, Chapter 39: Cyber Threats.

Optional:

  • Thomas Hale, David Held, Beyond Gridlock, Polity, 2017, Chapter 11: Cyber security: Gridlock and Innovation.

Case Study: Negotiations of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Macharia Kamau, Pamela Chasek, David O’Connor, Transforming Multilateral Diplomacy: The Inside Story of the Sustainable Development Goals, Routledge, 2018

Optional:

  • Felix Dodds, David Donoghue, Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals: A transformational agenda for an insecure world, Routledge, 2016
  • Jean-Philippe Thérien, Vincent Pouliot, “Global governance as patchwork: the making of the Sustainable Development Goals,” Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 27, Issue 3, 2020.
  • Serge Kapto, “Layers of Politics and Power Struggles in the SDG Indicators Process,” Global Policy, Vol. 10, Supplement 1, 2019.
  • Elaine Unterhalter, “The Many Meanings of Quality Education: Politics of Targets and Indicators in SDG4,” Global Policy, Vol. 10, Supplement 1, 2019.
  • Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, “Keeping Out Extreme Inequality from the SDG Agenda – The Politics of Indicators,” Global Policy, Vol. 10, Supplement 1, 2019.
  • Des Gasper, Amod Shah, Sunil Tankha, “The Framing of Sustainable Consumption and Production in SDG 12,” Global Policy, Vol. 10, Supplement 1, 2019.
  • Mark Elder, Simon Høiberg Olsen, “The Design of Environmental Priorities in the SDGs,” Global Policy, Vol. 10, Supplement 1, 2019.
  • Enrique Ordaz, “The SDGs Indicators: A Challenging Task for the International Statistical Community,” Global Policy, Vol. 10, Supplement 1, 2019.
  • Oliver Fox, Peter Stoett, “Citizen Participation in the UN Sustainable Development Goals Consultation Process: Toward Global Democratic Governance?” Global Governance, Vol. 22, Issue 4, 2016.

Careers in International Organizations

  • Laura E. Cressey, Barrett J. Helmer, Jennifer E. Steffensen, Careers in International Affairs, 9th edition, Georgetown University Press, 2014, Chapter 4: International Organizations.

Optional:

  • Diane Stone, Kim Moloney, The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, Oxford University Press, 2019, Chapter 10: The International Civil Service; Chapter 38: International Civil Servant Management: A Personnel-Influenced Agenda.
  • Paul Novosad, Eric Werker, “Who runs the international system? Nationality and leadership in the United Nations Secretariat,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol. 14, Issue 1, 2019.
  • Michal Parízek, “Control, Soft Information, and the Politics of International Organizations Staffing,” The Review of International Organizations, Vol. 12, Issue 4, December 2017.