International Public and NGO Management

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International Public and NGO Management

• Opening Session Management of the International
  Regime for the Elimination of Weapons of Mass
  Destruction

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The course uses Blackboard
Go to http//blackboard.syr.edu
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The course is on the Maxwell web
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You go to the Syllabus page
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The Master Schedule is your guide
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You navigate to the session page
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The Lecture

• Only time in the course you will get a live
  lecture
• Lectures will be posted on-line, usually the
  Friday previous
• Read, view or listen to the lecture
• Sessions will be discussion

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Readings

• Two texts required
• One text recommended

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Other readings on-line

• Purpose of readings is to give you context and
  additional information
• Texts are all from practitioners
• Readings are usually official documents from
  organizations
• Read quickly-- real international officials are
  inundated by documents

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Discussion sections

• You should attend one discussion section each
  week
• In-person
• Friday, 930 a.m. (Maxwell Auditorium)
• Tuesday, 630 p.m. (Eggers 010)
• On-line
• Thursday, 8 a.m.

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On-line

• Use Elluminate
• Go to Cotelco for the meeting
• http//cotelcocave.syr.edu/
• No password needed give yourself a nickname
  (probably your name)
• Recordings available almost immediately after
• Everyone can view the recordings

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Management of the International Regime for the
Verification of the Elimination of WMD

• Case study of how the international public sector
  addresses a global problem
• Shows role of IOs
• Material derived from 2005 bookElimination of
  Weapons of Mass Destruction Prospects for
  Effective International Verification by
  Andemicael and Mathiason (Palgrave 2005)

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What is a regime?

• Krasners classic (1981) definition
• "an international regime is a set of principles
  explicit or implicit norms, rules and
  decision-making procedures around which
  expectations of actors (States) converge in order
  to coordinate actors behavior with respect to a
  concern to them all

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Regime components

•   principles, norms, rules and decision-making
  procedures.  These are elements of institutions,
  of regularity. 
• "Around which expectations of actors"  It is
  about expectations rather than actions.  It is
  cognitive and perceptual rather than active.
• "converge in order to coordinate"  The agreement
  is to mutually affect possible behavior by
  indirect means rather than by authoritative
  means.
• "a concern to them all".  The collective pay-off
  is considered more important than the individual
  interest.

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WMD Conventions

• ? The 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
  Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which entered into force
  in 1970 and currently has 187 parties.
• ? The 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty
  (CTBT), which is not yet in force but has 165
  signatories and 93 ratifications, including 31 of
  the 45 annex II countries..
• ? The 1992  Convention on the Prohibition of the
  Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of
  Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction that
  entered into force in 1997 and has 145 parties.
  And
• ? The 1972 Convention on the Prohibition of the
  Development, Production and Stockpiling of
  Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons
  and on their Destruction that entered into force
  in 1975 and has 145 parties.

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Why verification?

• States involved in the elimination of WMD
  confront almost a classic version of the
  Prisoner's Dilemma game. 
• States may be run by leaders who are unscrupulous
  and irrational and who might not comply.
• Non-state actors who, by definition, are not
  bound by international conventions, might obtain
  WMD from state or other non-state actors and pose
  a threat.

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Universal or coalitions of the willing?

• Can a non-universal regime work?
• Non-participants are not bound
• Cannot effectively verify non-parties
• Lack of linkages
• Example Iraq II
• Universal regimes are clearly preferred

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Means of verification

• Declarations
• Trade Accounting
• Indirect Methods
• Inspections

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Institutions

• IAEA
• CTBTO
• OPCW
• Biological weapons?

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What does management have to do with this?

• Leadership
• Strategic planning
• Personnel
• Finance

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The Civil Servant
http//www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/dawstaff.
htm
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The role of civil society
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The Biological Weapons Verification Organization

• The simulation
• You are the staff of BWVO
• Meet with the Director General weekly
• Work in teams (mandatory if in the in-person
  session, optional for on-line)
• Prepare first medium-term plan for the
  organization (2008-2011)

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Use the LogFrame

• Logical Framework used in most international
  organizations
• Method of thinking through a problem
• Sequence from defining the problem through
  determining what to do about it and when

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LogFrame matrix
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Second weeks assignment

• Prepare a one paragraph statement of the problems
  to be addressed in the BWVO plan and
• A statement of the Overall Objective to be
  pursued by the plan
• Send to Professor Mathiason at jrmathia_at_maxwell.sy
  r.edu
• By September 4 for On-line session, September 5
  for Friday session, September 7 for Thursday
  session