1. Contemporary Issues in International Relations Transnational Politics

2. Today  Registration: everyone?  Basic intro  Attendance, papers, presentation, participation  Digital pictures  Reading: Orenstein/Schmitz Wednesday, 1/16/2008Hans Peter Schmitz

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4. Some rules and comments  We will take attendance. Advice us before you plan on missing a class. Email Lindsey.  Come to class on time.  Complete your assignments on time.  Ask questions and come to office hours.  If you have any issues preventing you from attending the class regularly, please talk to us asap. Wednesday, 1/16/2008Hans Peter Schmitz

5. Some rules and comments  Mid-term.  Assignment of country for final paper.  Assignment of presentation (choose three preferred topics).  Random assignment of response papers.  Blackboard: your grades.  Are there topics you would like to discuss in the class? Wednesday, 1/16/2008Hans Peter Schmitz

6. Definition: Transnational relations Transnational relations are “regular interactions across national boundaries when at least one actor is a non-state agent or does not operate on behalf of a national government or an intergovernmental organization.” (Thomas Risse-Kappen, Introduction, in Bringing Transnational Relations Back In: Non-State Actors, Domestic Structure and International Institutions, Cambridge University Press 1995, p. 3) Wednesday, 1/16/2008Hans Peter Schmitz

7. States and transnationalism  Are states becoming increasingly irrelevant in a transnational world?  Is the separation of ‘domestic’ and ‘international’ disappearing? Are borders a thing of the past?  ‘The New Transnationalism and Comparative Politics’ Wednesday, 1/16/2008Hans Peter Schmitz

8. What is ‘new’ about the ‘new transnationalism’?  1970s, First generation (482): a challenge to state-centrism (multinational corporations)  1990s, Second generation (483): a normative agenda and a non- zero sum perspective (transnational advocacy networks)  2000s, Third generation: questioning transnational activism (problems of the transnationalist literature and violent actors)  Wednesday, 1/16/2008Hans Peter Schmitz

9. Five lessons (484)  Globalization is overrated.  New forms of collective agency.  The state itself is becoming transnational.  Hierarchy and geography matter less and less.  Beyond the interests/norms divide.  Wednesday, 1/16/2008Hans Peter Schmitz

10. Beyond globalization (485)  Globalization is not a uniform and purely economic process.  Creating opportunities for transnational activism.  What matters is not if activists go global, but how they do so.  Political globalization is conflictual and fragmented.  Wednesday, 1/16/2008Hans Peter Schmitz

11. Autonomous collective agency (487)  Epistemic communities (expertise), IPCC  Transnational advocacy networks (norms), AI  Norm entrepreneurs (cosmopolitans), R. Lemkin  Overlapping authorities Wednesday, 1/16/2008Hans Peter Schmitz

12. The transnational state (490)  Increasing horizontal ties across state bureaucracies and to intergovernmental agencies.  Development of shared understandings.  Examples: World Economic Forum and supranational institutions.  Wednesday, 1/16/2008Hans Peter Schmitz

13. New Spheres of Authority (492)  New social contract and dispersed authority.  Democratic deficit? Are global activists legitimately shaping the lives of Millions?  Example: Gates Foundation and global health Wednesday, 1/16/2008Hans Peter Schmitz

14. The Power of Ideas (494)  Moral authority (beyond traditional means of power)  Knowledge/expertise  Constructing identities and interests  Logic of appropriateness Wednesday, 1/16/2008Hans Peter Schmitz

15. Options for comparativists (495)  Three choices: 1. Rejection 2. Limited acknowledgment (‘external shocks’) 3. Opportunity to expand comparative methods to global realm. Wednesday, 1/16/2008Hans Peter Schmitz