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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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