Dr.
John Mathiason's background
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This course is offered by John Mathiason (jrm@intlmgt.com), Senior Lecturer
at CIPA. He is also Managing Director
of Associates
for International Management Services, a consulting company providing
advice and training to international organizations and not-for-profit institutions,
including the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Comprehensive Test
Ban Treaty Organization, the United Nations Secretariat, the United Nations
Development Programme, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the
United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the World Meteorological
Organization, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification,the
Office of the High Commissioner for Human rights, the International Labour
Organization, the AARP, Disabled People's International, the SSM Foundation
of the Dominican Republic, the Ministry of Family, Youth and Children of
the Government of Panama, the Equal Opportunity Commission of Hong Kong,
the United Nations Development Programme in Ecuador, the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)n
and the Club of Madrid. He was lead evaluator of the Independent External
Evaluation of the ILO Evaluation Function, the review of the Management
and Accountability System of the United Nations Development System, the
Global Program against Money-Laundering of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime
and the results-based management system of the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization. He was a staff member of the United Nations Secretariat for
thirty years, the last ten as Deputy Director of the Division for the Advancement of Women,
responsible for managing support to negotiations leading up to the Fourth
World Conference on Women including involvement of NGO's. He has taught
and written extensively on international governance issues, including governing
the Internet (as part of the Internet Governance Project), effective
management of international arms control verification regimes and results-based
management in international organizations. He supervised an evaluation
of the results of the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID).
He is co-author of Elimination
ofWeapons of Mass Destruction: Prospects for Effective International Verification,
published by Palgrave in March 2005 and author of Invisible
Governance: International Secretariats in Global Politics ( Kumarian
Press, 2007). His book entitled Internet
Governance: A New Frontier for International Institutions for the
Routledge
series on international institutions was published in August 2008.
He is working on a book on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
to be published by Cambria Press in mid 2012. He is editor of the Journal
of International Organizations Studies where he is preparing a
special edition on management of climate change. He has a Ph.D. in Political
Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Synopsis of the Course
The new international order evolving in the Twenty-First
Century involves governments, international organizations and non-governmental
organizations. It includes a vibrant and growing international public
sector that is taking on an increasing number of management and regulatory
functions. Government management has been studied for centuries, that
of international organizations very little and of international non-governmental
organizations not at all. The
management of these organizations is becoming a key issue as the international
public sector grows. Management is increasingly "results-based" where
organizations are expected to plan strategically, program tactically
and monitor and evaluate outcomes leading to the achievement of concrete
objectives.
The course focuses on how international public and non-governmental
organizations strategically plan and manage five key functions: regime
creation, norm enforcement, peace, security and humanitarian assistance,
development assistance and internal management. The course is the
first of a two course sequence on results-based management in international
public and NGO organizations. The second course is Evaluation
of International Programs and Projects (PPA633) that is also called
IRP705 (Strategic Planning, Implementation and Evaluation in International
Affairs). Additional courses taught by other professors deal with specific
types of international management. Especially important are two taught
by Professor Catherine Bertini, on United
Nations Organizations -- Managing for Change and Humanitarian
Action: Challenges, Responses, Results
Regime creation involves processes of multilateral negotiation
to reach systematic agreements to deal with specific issues in which
non-governmental organizations play an increasing role. Norm enforcement
includes the use of such tools as reporting, observation, dispute resolution
and good offices to implement the norms included in regimes, where
the role of non-governmental organizations like Amnesty international
are central. Peace, security and humanitarian assistance are services
provided when Nation-States are unable or unwilling to provide them
and international organizations, public and NGO take over the job.
Development is seen as international public investment and regulation
to support national development efforts and internal management is the
function of keeping international organizations effective.
Topics include the nature of global governance and the
role of non-governmental organizations. How management of international
public and NGO management differs from national and private management
and principles of multilateral negotiation and the role of NGOs. For
regime creation processes case studies include the global climate change
regime, including environmental NGOs and the verification regime for
elimination of weapons of mass destruction, and the role of the peace
movement. Norm enforcement case studies include human rights, with
an emphasis on women's human rights and the role of Amnesty International
and the women's movement and on the WIPO domain name dispute resolution
process and the role of the Internet Society and others. Case studies
of mobilization of information include international policy analysis
through the World Development Report of the World Bank and The World
Survey on the Role of Women in Development, including the role of NGOs. In
addition to a paper analyzing the management of an international public
or non-governmental organization, the course will involve a simulation
based on creating a new international organization for the verifictionof
the Climate Change Convention.
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