Courses & Units
International Cooperation HIR308
Introduction
International cooperation has undoubtly a positive ring to it. Recent decades have seen an impressive increase in inter-governmental and transnational cooperation, which often have been hailed for creating policies of peace and prosperity. Examples include the European Union, the Arms Trade Treaty or global measures for preventing climate change decided in Paris in 2015. However, international cooperation has also a dark side to it. It notably tends to (re)produce structures of inequality and injustice. With hindsight, for instance, we remember the 1884 Berlin Conference as a negative example of international cooperation as it carried on the colonization of Africa (the famous scramble for Africa), hence institutionalizing the looting and the violence and exploitation of the continent. However, at its times, the conference was seen as a peace conference as it avoided armed conflict between the two great powers of the time, France and Great-Britain. International cooperation is, as this example shows, often highly ambiguous. While it creates on the one hand conditions for a more peaceful and prosperous world, it also (re)creates conditions for exploitation and injustice. This unit will explore this ambiguity by looking at both sides of international cooperation: its bright side with is potential of solving major global problems and conflicts (climate change, wars, famine etc.) and its dark side, i.e. the conditions of power inequality and domination on which cooperation is often predicated on and which it institutionalizeds and reproduces.
Summary
| Unit name | International Cooperation |
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| Unit code | HIR308 |
| Credit points | 12.5 |
| College/School | College of Arts, Law and Education School of Social Sciences |
| Discipline | Politics and International Relations |
| Coordinator | Doctor Catherine Goetze |
| Available as an elective? | Yes |
| Delivered By | University of Tasmania |
| Level | Advanced |
Availability
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | On-Campus | International | Domestic | |
| Online | Semester 1 | Off-Campus | International | Domestic | |
Key
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
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Key Dates
| Study Period | Start date | Census date | WW date | End date |
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| Semester 1 | 26/2/2024 | 22/3/2024 | 15/4/2024 | 2/6/2024 |
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Learning Outcomes
- Explain different forms and instances of inter-governmental and transnational cooperation.
- Analyse key arguments and theoretical debates in the field of international cooperation.
- Apply theoretical knowledge from mainstream and critical approaches to empirical cases of international relations.
- Communicate coherently in written and/or oral formats drawing upon evidence to support your argument.
Fee Information
| Field of Education | Commencing Student Contribution 1,3 | Grandfathered Student Contribution 1,3 | Approved Pathway Course Student Contribution 2,3 | Domestic Full Fee 4 |
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| 090101 | $2,040.00 | $957.00 | not applicable | $2,324.00 |
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Requisites
Prerequisites
HPP101 OR HIR101Teaching
| Teaching Pattern | On campus: Weekly seminar (1 hour) and weekly workshop (2 hours) Online: Weekly (online or recorded) seminar (1 hour) and weekly (online or recorded) workshop (2 hours)
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| Assessment | Reading diary (25%)|Tutorial participation (25%)|Essay (50%) |
| Timetable | View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable |
Textbooks
| Required |
Week 1: Please listen to the podcast: Vox The Gray Area, Thursday 2/11/2022, Sean Illing talks with Yuval Noah Harari, “Yuval Noah Harari thinks humans are unstoppable”
Week 2: Moulin, Carolina. “Narrative.” In Critical Imaginations in International Relations, edited by Aoileann Ní Mhurchú and Reiko Shindo, 136–52. Oxon: Routledge, 2016.
Week 3: Young, Oran R. “Regime Dynamics: The Rise and Fall of International Regimes.” International Organization 36, no. 2 (1982): 277–97.
Week 4: Koskenniemi, Martti. “Histories of International Law: Dealing with Eurocentrism.” Lecture. Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit Utrecht, November 16, 2011. https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/219007.
Week 5: Haack, Kirsten. “Introduction”, in: Women’s Access, Representation and Leadership in the United Nations. Springer, 2022, p.1-21.
Week 6: Braun, Benjamin, Sebastian Schindler, and Tobias Wille. “Rethinking Agency in International Relations: Performativity, Performances and Actor-Networks.” Journal of International Relations and Development 22, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 787–807. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-018-0147-z.
Week 7: Jarstad, Anna, Niklas Eklund, Patrik Johansson, Elisabeth Olivius, Abrak Saati, Dzenan Sahovic, Veronica Strandh, Johanna Söderström, Malin Eklund Wimelius, and Malin Åkebo. Three Approaches to Peace¿: A Framework for Describing and Exploring Varieties of Peace. Umeå University, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-165979.
Week 8: Visoka, Gëzim. “Metis Diplomacy: The Everyday Politics of Becoming a Sovereign State.” Cooperation and Conflict 54, no. 2 (June 2019): 167–90. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836718807503.
Week 9: Gray, Kevin, and Barry K. Gills. “South–South Cooperation and the Rise of the Global South.” Third World Quarterly 37, no. 4 (April 2, 2016): 557–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1128817.
Week 10: Amoore, Louise. “Machine Learning Political Orders.” Review of International Studies 49, no. 1 (January 2023): 20–36. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210522000031.
Week 11: Adamson, Fiona B, and Gerasimos Tsourapas. “Migration Diplomacy in World Politics.” International Studies Perspectives 20, no. 2 (May 1, 2019): 113–28. https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/eky015.
Week 12: Aktas, Özgür. “Rethinking the Limits of the Concept of Agency in the International Relations Discipline: The Case of the Climate Justice Movement.” Siyasal: Journal of Political Sciences 31, no. 2 (November 8, 2022): 385–402. https://doi.org/10.26650/siyasal.2022.31.1066830.
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| Recommended | The list of recommended readings and readings for the assessment task 'Reading Diary' will be distributed at the beginning of the class. | Links | Booktopia textbook finder |
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