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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Maria Debre
Event type:
Seminar / exercise
Org-unit: Politics, Administration & International Relations
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Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
5 | 35
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
Sanctions are one of the most widely used political and economic instrument to signal international wrongdoing, to punish actors, or to force them to change their behavior. This seminar offers and introduction to the debate around types, actors, effectiveness, and humanitarian consequences surrounding the international governance of sanctions. We will study sanctions from different types of senders (states, international & regional organizations), towards different types of targets (states & non-state actors) and with different goals (democratization, ending civil war, nuclear proliferation, terrorism). Employing historical and current empirical examples reaching from the Cold War to current sanction regimes against Belarus, Russia or Afghanistan, the participants will study the politics of international sanctions.
Educational objective:
Through weekly discussions of the course material as well as critical engagement with latest news and case studies, you will acquire knowledge on how to understand international sanction politics, and be able to empirically assess and analyze who sanctions, who gets sanctions, and under what conditions sanctions can be effective as well as ethically legitimate.
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
o Explain different conceptualizations of international sanctions
o Understand the political procedures surrounding sanction imposition
o Work with different datasets and identify strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to quantify sanction episodes
o Summarize current academic debates around sanction politics and effectiveness
o Analyze the politics around sanctions and conditions for effective use of sanctions
o Independently develop research questions and research designs related to relevant academic and political topics
o Provide policy advice on how to address practical problems surrounding sanction politics
Further information about the exams:
In-class presentation (not graded):
During the course, you will hold a 15-minute input presentation (group presentation) on the texts from the session. The presentation should address the following questions:
Who are the authors of the text and where was the article published?
What is the main argument of the article?
What are the theoretical assumptions, which methods & data are used?
How do the arguments compare to other arguments read in-class?
Following in-class presentations, we will use interactive group work and case studies to apply the arguments to empirical cases.
Research Paper (graded):
As final graded endterm, you will write an empirical research paper on a research question that you choose during the course of the semester. We will jointly work and comment on your research designs during the seminar. The final paper should include:
- Introduction (relevance of the topic) and research question
- theory or theoretical concepts
- Research design
- Systematic analysis
- Conclusion, including limitations/ critical reflection
Mandatory literature:
Baldwin, David Allen (1985). Economic Statecraft. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
T. Biersteker, S. Eckert, & M. Tourinho (Eds.), Targeted Sanctions: The Impacts and Effectiveness of United Nations Action (pp. 190-219). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Jeffrey Schott, Kimberly Ann Elliott, Barbara Oegg (2009). Economic Sanctions Reconsidered. The Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Further literature will be provided before the course.
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