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Instructors: Dr. des. Stefan Matern
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Politics, Administration & International Relations
Displayed in timetable as:
Democracy & Justice
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
4 | 35
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
This seminar provides a comprehensive introduction to the challenges of International Relations. The course begins by addressing the fundamental issue of war and peace, drawing on Immanuel Kant. It explores normative principles of the Global Governance System in relation to the Westphalian principle of sovereignty. Furthermore, it delves into key debates in contemporary international politics, particularly focusing on rising powers and the liberal world order. It critically examines legitimacy issues in the global order and discusses their impact on democratic principles. A central focus is placed on the question of globalization of politics or renationalization of society, with an emphasis on the debate between cosmopolitanism and communitarianism. This includes a detailed exploration of NGOs and IOs in global politics and the significance of the public sphere. The course also addresses the "Responsibility to Protect" and delves into global challenges in human rights and climate change. Additionally, it explores concepts and challenges related to citizenship beyond national borders. Finally, the seminar considers the emerging authoritarian populism as a potential new challenge to the existing liberal world order.
Educational objective:
- Students are able to understand and present various theoretical and empirical concepts of democracy and justice, discussing them at the global level
- Students are familiar with key debates in International Relations, describing and critically commenting on them from the dissolution of the Westphalian principle to modern Global Governance
- Students can describe and critically evaluate central legitimacy issues in the global order, as well as differentiate between cosmopolitan and communitarian approaches
- Students are acquainted with central theoretical and empirical concepts related to key issues in the international order, such as public sphere, human rights, climate change, elections, and authoritarian regression
Further information about the exams:
Midterm + Endterm
Weighting: Midterm: 50% | Endterm: 50%
Midterm: Presentation
- The presentation should last between 30 and 45 minutes and transition into a subsequent discussion based on concluding theses
- The presentation should align with the central theme of the respective session but is encouraged and expected to go beyond the mandatory readings
- Based on individual literature research, students are allowed and encouraged to develop their own case studies related to the session's theme
- However, it is equally possible to give a presentation without a case study, but it must then engage with central issues on a theoretical basis. For example, the challenge to the international order by rising powers can be illustrated both theoretically and with an example; however, a case study, of course, can never do without theoretical underpinning
- The presentation should be structured around theses and align with the current state of scholarly research
- Students have the freedom to choose the format of the presentation (pure lecture, lecture with group activities, surveys, breakout sessions, or other didactic methods)
Endterm: Term Paper
- 15 pages (± 10%). The specified length excludes the cover page, indices, and appendices (refer to the guidelines of the Study and Examination Center). If there is a desire for deviation, please consult in advance
- In English or German, adhering to academic conventions in terms of format and layout, with a consistent citation style (no specific style requirement), and an honorary declaration
- The term paper should loosely align with the topics covered in the course but must go beyond the specific course content. It is strongly recommended to discuss the topic with the instructor
- The term paper should demonstrate that students can formulate a clear and interesting analytical question/hypothesis and methodically address it based on a theoretically informed argumentation (either empirical or theoretical)
- A good term paper is characterized by knowledge of general and specific literature on the topic, the ability to critically evaluate it, and the skill to develop one's argumentation in dialogue with the literature, emphasizing conceptual precision and reflexivity
- Adherence to formal and ethical academic standards is expected
Mandatory literature:
The following bibliographic references are excerpts from the seminar's bibliography, organized according to the respective themes of each session.
- Kant, Immanuel (1796): Project for a perpetual peace. A philosophical essay, London: S. Couchman for Vernor and Hood.
- Rosenau, James N. (1992): Governance, order, and change in world politics, in: Rosenau, James N. & Ernst Otto Czempiel (Hrsg.), Governance without government. Order and Change in World Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 1-29.
- Stephen, Matthew D. & Michael Zürn (2019): Rising Powers, NGOs, and Demands for New World Orders. An Introduction, in: dies. (eds.), Contested World Orders, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 1-36.
- Zürn, Michael (1998): Regieren jenseits des Nationalstaates. Globalisierung und Denationalisierung als Chance, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp
- de Wilde, Pieter (ed.) et al. (2019): The Struggle over Borders. Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Archibugi, Daniele (2008): The Global Commonwealth of Citizens. Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Dahl, Robert A. (1999): Can international organizations be democratic? A skeptic’s view, in: Shapiro, Ian & Casiano Hacker-Cordón (eds.), Democracy’s Edges, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 19-36.
- Habermas, Jürgen (2011): The crisis of the European Union, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp.
- Bellamy, Alex J. (2015): The responsibility to protect. A defense, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Boyle, Alan (2019): Climate change, sustainable development, and human rights, in: Kaltenborn, Markus, Krajewski, Markus & Heike Kuhn (eds.), Sustainable development goals and human rights, Cham: Springer Open, p. 171-191.
- Habermas, Jürgen (2010): Das Konzept der Menschenwürde und die realistische Utopie der Menschenrechte, in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Vol. 58, p. 323-357.
- Caramani, Daniele & Florian Grotz (2015): Beyond citizenship and residence? Exploring the extension of voting rights in the age of globalization, in: Democratization, Vol. 22, p. 799-819.
- Schäfer, Armin & Michael Zürn (2023): The Democratic Regression. The Political Cause of Authoritarian Populism, Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag.
Modulbeschreibung:
This module addresses normative questions of democracy and justice beyond the state: how can a legitimate and just order be organized beyond national borders? Which moral points of reference should be applied? Which institutional designs are possible? The module covers cosmopolitan and communitarian approaches to democracy and justice and discusses concrete options of implementation; for instance parliamentary assemblies and deliberative civil society fora in international organizations, the right to vote for migrants or global redistribution mechanisms such as a financial transaction tax or fair supply chains. The module combines normative questions of duties, rights and responsibility in the global sphere with suggestions regarding their political implementation.
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