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 |
- 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 |
- Mathiason, Invisible Governance, Introduction and Chapters
1-3.
- Australian Aid, AusAID Guidelines, The Logical Framework Approach
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, SD
Dimensions: AKIS Study - Eritrea Method Guide (3) Problem Tree [Example of a "Problem
Tree"]
- CARE, Project Design Handbook, Chapters
2 and 3. If you are interested,
you can look at the entire handbook.
- UNICEF, Understanding Results Based Programme Planning and Management,
Tool #1 Causal Analysis and Problem Tree – getting the CCA right
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Recommended readings |
- Barnett and Finnemore, Rules for the World, Chapters 1-2
- You might also browse the Millenium Assembly Web Site.
- Millenium Declaration of
the Millenium Summit
- 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 |
- Participants will discuss the problems addressed and general objective
with Professor Mathiason so that the consensus can be forwarded to the
Director-General.
- The participants, individually, should prepare a problem addressed
statement and a problem tree.
- You can also view a PowerPoint
presentation on the Logical Framework.
- Each participant should send the draft proposal for the general objective
and the problem material to the Professor three days in advance of the
session (Tuesday, September 8 for the Thursday session, Wednesday, September
9 for the Friday session.)
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Discussion questions |
- 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?
- How can problems to be addressed by the international public sector
be defined.
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| On-line session |
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