INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

(Course number GOVT 298, Fall 2012)

Car Barn (CBN) Room 202Class day & time: Tuesday & Thursday, 11am-12:15pm

Instructor: James Raymond Vreeland, Professor 2.0

WE ARE GLOBAL GEORGETOWN!

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Who is this guy?

WEGG

What is this class about?

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Two words*:

Cooperation & Sacrifice

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Cooperation & Sacrifice

• Among states

• Formalized through “institutions”

• Scary but exciting times (GFC 2008)

• *Change

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Expectations?...

1. Substance: International Organizations– Focus: Intergovernmental Organizations– Others: Non-governmental Organizations,

Multinational Corporations

2. Analytical tools

3. Standards of Excellence

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What do professors do?

• Teaching

• Service

• Research

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My classes• International Political Economy

– Economics: distribution of scarce resources– Politics: the role of the state in such distribution– International: how the flows of such resources across

borders plays a role• Flows: goods & service (trade), money (capital mobility), people

(immigration), pollutants (the environment), violence (terrorism)

• International Organizations– The ways international institutions impact these flows

• The IMF– Specific financial flows

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Pedagogy

• Substance

• Analytical tools

• Teaching to fish

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Technology in the classroom

• Professor 2.0 – bring your laptops to class

• Syllabus: http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jrv24/GOVT_298.html

• Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=james+vreeland&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

• Google scholar: – http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=james%20vreeland&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=ws

• Wikipedia?

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Service

• (Meetings, committees)

• Advising students

• Service to the profession

– Conferences

– Reviewing research

– Giving talks…

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Research

• Informs what I teach

• Keeps me on the cutting edge

• Signals to the world Georgetown faculty strength– Signal attracts great students (peers)– Signals employers the university’s caliber

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Striving for a global impact• Teaching:

• Research position:

• Presentations of research:

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Cultural exchanges

• Co-authors

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You

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You

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You

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You

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What are YOUR responsibilities in this class?

Go to the syllabus!

www.profvreeland.com http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jrv24/GOVT_298.html

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Grading(mix of cooperation & conflict)

• Standards of excellence

• Greatness in this room!

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Questions, please

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Thank youWE ARE GLOBAL GEORGETOWN!

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