PADM 5450. International Public and NGO Management

4. Regime Creation

12, 14 September 2023

Perhaps the oldest function performed by international organizations is to facilitate the negotiation of agreements among Nation-States to deal with problems of a concern to them all. The process is an intricate and delicate one in which there are always three parties: governments, the Secretariats of international organizations and non-governmental organizations. This session will examine how international agreements are negotiated and the role of international public and NGO secretariats in the process. It will examine the differences between bilateral and multi-lateral negotiation and the role of NGO's in conditioning outcomes. It looks at two different negotiation processes, the Fourth World Conference on Women and the work of a verification protocol for the Biological Weapons Convention.

Questions covered	Steps in negotiating regimes Principles of multi-lateral negotiation Roles of Secretariats and NGO's (Multi-stakeholder approaches) Determining output necessary to achieve outcomes
Lecture	Regime lecture
Required readings	Mathiason, 3. How Do States Get to "Yes"? rev in Course Canvas John Mathiason, "UN Secretariat: The Gatekeepers of Ideas" in Anita Anand (ed) Beijing! UN Fourth World Conference on Women, New Delhi: Women's Feature Service, 1999 Scientists call for urgent, targeted, action to avoid reversing the development gains of recent decades, Press Release 11 September 2019 Final Document of the FIFTH REVIEW CONFERENCE OF THE STATES PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTION AND STOCKPILING OF BACTERIOLOGICAL (BIOLOGICAL) AND TOXIN WEAPONS AND ON THEIR DESTRUCTION (Geneva, 19 November 7 December 2001 and 11 22 November 2002)
Recommended readings	Mathiason, Chapter 4, "Regime Creation" Barnett and Finnemore, Chapter 4, pp. 73-93
Simulation	Meeting with facilitator on revised objectives and outcomes for the respective Divisions on 14 September due by close of business on Tuesday13 September 2022.
Discussion questions	What is the role of information in the creation of regimes? How can non-governmental organizations affect the outcome of intergovernmental negotiations? What are the main ways by which international secretariats influence the outcome of intergovernmental negotiations?
On-line session recording	12 and 14 September recordings are found in the course Canvas

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