Traditional and NonTraditional

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• Traditional and Non-Traditional
• Conflict Management UNI 360Y Fall 2005
• Week 1
• Alan S. Alexandroff, alan_at_alexandroff.com
• Research Director, PCMN

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Summary

• Evaluation
• Philosophy
• Your Objectives
• Structure
• Course Outline
• The Opening Debate over IR Architecture

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Contact

• www.alanalexandroff.com
• E-mail - alan_at_alexandroff.com
• Office Hours 261 South House Munk Centre for
  International Studies Wednesdays 9-11 or by
  appointment

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Philosophy

• Focus on analysis and understanding of
  contemporary international relations
• Understand how international works first then
  possibly how it should work
• Resources
• Electronic and Print media
• Web Think tanks and International Organizations
• Simulation of Contemporary Problems

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Philosophy II

• Go deep into the examination of a contemporary
  problem
• Last year terrorism and the presence of Syria in
  Lebanon
• This year the problem of proliferation and
  counter-proliferation
• Try and find ways for you to understand from the
  inside how international works simulation and
  role plays

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Philosophy III

• Research and write on a negotiation in
  international relations integrate theory and
  practice

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Resources

• Much background for the the simulation
• Many websites assessment of websites

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Administration

• Evaluation
• The grade for this course will be determined as
  follows
• In class Mid-term exam (November 16, 2005)
• 20 per cent
• The Struggle Over Nuclear Proliferation
  Simulation Delegation Backgrounder and Opening
  Negotiating Position (November 23, November 30,
  December 7, 2005)
• 15 per cent  (group grade)

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Admin II

• The Struggle Over Nuclear Proliferation
  Simulation (March 1 and March 15, 2006)
• 15 percent (group grade)
• Final Report on Negotiation from Teams (March 22,
  2006)
• 5 percent (group grade)
• Outline of Research paper (February 8, 2006) 5
  percent (Individual grade)

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Admin III

• Class and exercise participation
• 10 percent (individual)
• Research Paper (April 12, 2006)
• 25 percent (individual)
• Team evaluations (April 5,2006)
• 5 percent (individual)
•  TOTAL
• 100 per cent

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Structure

• Lectures structure and behavior in
  international relations
• Simulation The Struggle over Nuclear
  Proliferation
• Select Readings analyzing and discussing
• Role plays

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Readings

• Website - online link
• http//www.alanalexandroff.com/uni360Readings.htm
  
• 2 textbooks Howard Raiffa, The Art and
  Science of Negotiation, and Susan Rosegrant and
  Michael Watkins, Breakthrough International
  Negotiation,
• Course reader (30.00) Undergraduate Library
• Role plays (25.00)

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Table of Contents I

• Table of Contents
• PART I THE NEW ARCHITECTURE OF INTERNATIONAL
  RELATIONS
• September 14, 2005 Looking at a Revolution in
  International Relations
• September 21, 2005 Challenging the Status Quo
• September28, 2005 Traditional Diplomacy,
  International Relations, and Nuclear Strategy
• October 5, 2005 Congresses, Concerts and
  Superpowers
• October 12, 2005  Envisioning Empire in the21st
  Century The Empire of Liberty and its Critics

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Contents II

• October 19, 2005  Law, Institutions and Human
  Rights
• October 26, 2005 States, Nations and The
  Willingness to Intervene The Responsibility to
  Protect
• November 2, 2005 Terrorism, Proliferation and
  Counterproliferation
• November 16, 2005In-class Mid-Term Test
• November 23, 2005 In-class Presentation
• November 30, 2005 In-class Presentation
• December 7, 2005 In-class Presentation

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Contents III

• PART II THEORY AND PRACTICE IN NEGOTIATIONS
• January 11, 2006 Strategy, Games, and Debates
• January 18, 2006 Negotiation Exercise
  Distributive Challenges
• January 25,2006 Negotiation Exercise Values and
  Integration
• February 1, 2006 Negotiating in International
  Relations
• February 8,2006 Strategic Bargaining
• February 8, 2006 (Paper proposals due at
  beginning of class)
• February 15, 2006 Reading Week

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Contents III

• February 22, 2006 Multiple Parties and Multiple
  Issues
• March 1, 2006 Preliminary Negotiation Nuclear
  Proliferation
• March 8, 2006 Negotiation Tactics and Technique
• March 15, 2006  Final Negotiation Nuclear
  Proliferation
• March 22, 2006 Multilateral Environmental
  Negotiations
• March 22, 2006 Final Report on Negotiation from
  Teams
• March 29, 2006 Negotiation Exercise Climate
  Change Negotiation
• April 5,2006 International Mediation and the
  Resolution of Deep-Rooted Social Conflict
• April 5, 2006 Teams Evaluation Reports
• April 12, 2006  Wrap Up Research Papers due at
  the beginning of class.

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The Debate
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The New Puzzles

• The puzzle of U.S. exceptionalism
• The conundrum of the individual in international
  relations
• Interventions good and bad
• Humanitarian intervention
• Regime change

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Taxonomy of Conflict Management

• Traditional Structures
• Inter-State International Law and Organization
• State Sovereignty
• Realism/Neo-Realism
• Diplomacy and Force

• Non-Traditional Structures
• International Human Rights Laws
• Individuals
• Wilsonianism
• Democracy and Freedom

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Taxonomy(Contd)

• Traditional
• Operations
• Balance of Power
• Concert Creation Management
• Mediation
• Cooperation and Conflict
• Force

• Non-Traditional
• Courts,Truth Comm. Tribunals
• Interactive Conflict Resolution (ICR) Elites
• PSW
• ICR Citizens
• Citizen Engagement

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THIRD AXIS
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Classic System
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Wilsonianism
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21st CenturyUS IR
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21st CenturyAlternative
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Force

• Use of Force Resolution-SC1441
• As a central justification,it used pre-emption,
  or anticipatory self defense which the White
  House defines as the right of the United States
  to attack a country that it thinks could attack
  it first
• Alberto Gonzales White House Counsel, NYT Monday,
  09_23_02 A18

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NationalSecurity

• Our priority will be to disrupt and destroy
  terrorist organizations of global reach and
• We will disrupt and destroy terrorist
  organizations by
• Defending the United States, the American people,
  and our interests at home and abroad by
  identifying and destroying the threat before it
  reaches our borders. While the United States
  will constantly strive to enlist the support of
  the international community, we will not hesitate
  to act alone,

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Motivation

• the gravest danger to freedom lies at the
  crossroads of radicalism and technology (Bush
  West Point June 1, 2002)
• However, the nature and motivations of these new
  adversaries, their determination to obtain
  destructive powers hitherto available only to the
  worlds strongest states

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Collective Security I

• Article 33, the continuance of which is likely
  to endanger the maintenance of international
  peace and security, shall first of all seek a
  solution
• Article 37.1 Should the parties to a dispute of
  the nature referred to in Article 33 fail to
  settle it by the means indicated in that Article,
  they shall refer it to the Security Council.

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CollectiveSecurity II

• Chapter VII-Action with Respect to Threats to the
  Peace, breaches of the Peace, and Acts of
  Aggression
• Article 39 The Security Council shall determine
  the existence of any threat to the peace, breach
  of the peace, or act of aggression and shall make
  recommendations, or decide what measures shall be
  taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42, to
  maintain or restore international peace and
  security.

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Self-Defence

• Article 51 Nothing in the present Charter shall
  impair the inherent right of individual or
  collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs
  against a member of the United Nations, until the
  Security Council has taken measures necessary to
  maintain international peace and security.

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Motivation II

• Traditional concepts of deterrence will not work
  against a terrorist enemy whose avowed tactics
  are wanton destruction and the targeting of
  innocents
• For centuries, international law recognized that
  nations need not suffer an attack before they can
  lawfully take action to defend themselves
  against forces that present an imminent danger of
  attack