Intro to international relations (class 12)

1.

PLS 150 INTRO TO INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
DR MAJA SAVEVSKA
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science and International Relations
SSH | Nazarbayev University
Office: 8.502
Email: [email protected]
30-11-22
Intro to IR
Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

2.

Agenda for Week Twelve
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
• Current
Events (10
min)
• Annotated
Bibliography
(10 min)
• Lecture on
international
law (30 min)
• Current
events (10
min)
• Lecture on
international
law (40 min)
• Kahoot (10
min)
• Lecture (10
min)
• Interactive
activities
(rest)

3.

Current Events

4.

Announcement
Research Task
Annotated bibliography is due week 13
Discuss at least 5 academic articles
Two paragraphs per article

5.

Annotated Bibliography
Academic Journals
International Organization
American Political Science Review
International Studies Quarterly
International Security
European Journal of IR
British Journal of Politics and International Studies
Review of International Political Economy
New Political Economy
World Politics
International Affairs

6.

Annotated Bibliography
NU Library Access
Go directly to the journals and search for
articles on the topic

7.

International Law
What is it?
Body of rules which obliges
states
Types:
Primary rules
Negative
Positive

8.

International Law
Sources
Conventions/Treaties
UN Charter
Geneva Conventions
International Customs
As evidence of a general practice accepted as law
General principles of law (jus cogens)
Legal scholarship

9.

International Law
Variance
Obligation
Precision
Delegation

10.

International Law
Observance of the Law
Louis Henkin:
‘almost all nations observe almost
all principles of international law
and almost all of their obligations
almost all of the time’

11.

Agenda for Week Twelve
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
• Current
Events (10
min)
• Annotated
Bibliography
(10 min)
• Lecture on
international
law (30 min)
• Current
events (10
min)
• Lecture on
international
law (40 min)
• Kahoot (10
min)
• Lecture (10
min)
• Interactive
activities
(rest)

12.

Current Events

13.

International Law
Enforcement
No world police
Self-help
Principle of reciprocity
Sanctions

14.

15.

International Law
Courts
International Court of Justice
International Criminal Court
European Court of Human Rights
Individual petition

16.

International Law
Doctrine of Diplomatic Immunity
Diplomatic recognition
Immunity
Embassy’s extraterritoriality
Iran’s violation case

17.

International Law
Just War
Law of War (jus ad bellum)
Law in War (jus in bello)
Geneva Conventions

18.

International Law
Crimes Against Humanity
History:
London Charter
ICC
Definition of crimes against
humanity:
Villainous acts directed at civilian
population

19.

Agenda for Week Twelve
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
• Current
Events (10
min)
• Annotated
Bibliography
(10 min)
• Lecture on
international
law (30 min)
• Current
events (10
min)
• Lecture on
international
law (40 min)
• Kahoot (10
min)
• Lecture (15
min)
• Interactive
activities
(rest)

20.

Kahoot

21.

Norms
What are they?
Standards of behavior
Types:
Constitutive
Procedural
Regulative

22.

Norms
How are they created?
Norms entrepreneurs
Transnational advocacy
networks

23.

Norms
Life Cycle
Finnemore and Sikkink’s
Norms entrepreneurs frame
issues
Norms cascade
Internalization

24.

Norms
Boomerang Model
Finnemore and Sikkink’s
Issues: human rights abuses,
environmentalism, women rights etc.
State which is unresponsive or conducts
human rights violations
Linkages: Local NGO’s turn to the
international community for support

25.

Norms
Validity
Norms are counterfactually valid
(Kratochwil)

26.

In-Class Exercise I
ICJ
Case 1:
What did the ICJ rule in the Philipines
vs. China case?
What is the Nine Dash Line?
Case 2:
What did the ICJ rule in the Somalia
vs. Kenya case?

27.

In-Class Exercise II
International Criminal Court
How many preliminary
examinations are there?
What is the Myanmar case about?
How many situations under
investigation we have?
What is the Georgia case about?
Who has been convicted so far?

28.

Q&A
Dr Maja
Savevska
Thank you for your attention