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PADM 5450. International Public and NGO Management
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2.
Managing Non-Sovereign International Public Institutions and the Role of
Results-Based Management (RBM)
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August 29, 31, 2023
This session of the seminar will discuss the transition to international
public management and the emergence of a significant international public and
not-for-profit sector to deal with issues that cannot be addressed through
national action. It will consider the growth of trans-boundary issues and the
decline of the effectiveness of the Nation-State and the role of international
organizations to deal with the issues. It will look at the various theories
being applied to explaining international relations at the beginning of the
Twenty-First Century and suggest an alternative, public management approach. It
introduces results-based management and, within it,
the main strategic planning tool used by the international public sector, the
logical framework.
Questions
covered
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- What do you mean the
Nation-State is dead?
- Competing classical
paradigms for understanding international relations: realism v.
functionalism
- New paradigms: neo
-realism, regime theory, global governance
- An international
public management approach to governance
- How management of
international organizations differs from national, or private sector,
organizations
- How is strategic
planning done using the Logical Framework, starting with the Problem
Tree.
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Lectures
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Required
readings
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- Thomas Weiss, Would
the World Be Better without the UN?, Part I
- John Mathiason,
Chapters 1 and 2, The United Nations System at Work, (In course
Canvas).
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Integrating
Food Security, Nutrition and Good Governance in District Development Planning
Through lAdvocacy, Social Mobilization and
Capacity Strengthening: A Methodological Guide [Skim only but see
the example of a "Problem Tree" on p.57]
- Paris Knowledge
Bridge: Unpacking International Climate Governance - Video:
The History of Climate Governance [Watch all four videos]
- UNFCCC, Adoption of
the Paris Agreement, 12 December 2015
- Managing
for Results: A Handbook on Results-Based Management for Sida Research Cooperation, December 2014. Use as
reference during the course.
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Recommended
readings
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- Mathiason, Invisible
Governance, Introduction and Chapters 1-3.
- Barnett and Finnemore, Rules for the World, Chapters
1-2
- The
Paris Agreement
- You might also browse
the UN's Sustainable
Development Web Site.
- Tranforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development
- Lawrence S.
Finkelstein, "What Is
Global Governance?" Global Governance, I(1995), pp. 367-372.
- "The Nation-State is Dead, Long
Live the Nation-State", The Economist, December 23.
1995-January 5, 1996.
- Secretary-General of
the United Nations, We
the Peoples: the Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century.
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Simulation
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- Each participant should draft a statement of the problems
that the CCEVO should address in its work and draft an overall objective
that should guide its work in the 2024-2028 Period. These will be
discussed on 31August. They should be sent to by close of business on Wednesday, 30
August.
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Discussion
questions
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- What are the areas where
international institutions are taking over from national institutions?
- What is different
between governance at the international and national levels?
- What are the
implications of "sovereignless
authority"?
- Who are the main
public actors in international management?
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Recording
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- Recordings of August
29 and 31 will be in the course Canvas
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2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 , 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 John
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