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210070 SE BAK11: How to research multilateral environmental negotiations? (2024W)

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 21 - Politikwissenschaft
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Sprache: Englisch

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  • Dienstag 15.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Dienstag 22.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Dienstag 29.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Dienstag 05.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This seminar introduces Bachelor students to the basic features of global environmental negotiations and the empirical study thereof. Starting from the premise that we need to broaden the conceptualisation of the actors, sites and processes constitutive of international environmental agreements and law, the course will provide 1) knowledge about the theoretical foundations of global environmental negotiations, 2) empirical examples and cases from the areas of climate change, biodiversity, and ocean protection, and 3) a methodological toolbox allowing researchers to empirically study environmental negotiations.

In the first part of the course, students will be familiarised with the field of global environmental politics (GEP), its main objectives, theories and concepts. You will learn why studying GEP from the perspective of the negotiation sites where new agreements are made matters and how you can use those sites to understand the set of actors, sites and processes constituting “global environmental agreement-making” (Hughes, Vadrot et al., 2021, Hughes and Vadrot, 2023).

The second part of the course will introduce different agreement-making sites (climate change, biodiversity ocean protection) and allow students to familiarize themselves with what global environmental agreement-making means in practice. A range of key principles and terms will be introduced and their meaning in theory and practice reflected.

In the third part of the course, students will be familiarised with key methods and tools to study global environmental agreement-making, including participant observation, ethnography, interviews, text and social-network analysis.

The course targets Bachelor students interested in the various themes of global environmental politics and the empirical study thereof. While it may be advantageous if you have some knowledge of global environmental politics, the course is still conceptualized in a way that permits all students to participate.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

- On-site participation (you are allowed to miss one session)
- Reading background literature before each session
- Participation in group work during the session
- Active participation in group discussions
- 3 written exams in class:
05.11.2024: 10 multiple choice questions, 3 open questions
03.12.2024: 10 multiple choice questions, 3 open questions
21.01.2024: essay (open book exam)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab


• 100 to 90 Points: Very good (1)
• 89 to 80 Points: Good (2)
• 79 to 70 Points: Satisfactory (3)
• 69 to 60 Points: Sufficient (4)
• >60 Points: Poor (5)

Prüfungsstoff

• Knowledge about the content of the seminar sessions
• Familiarity with key principles, concepts and terminology
• Knowledge about the content of the background literature

Literatur

Allan, J. I., & Chasek, P. (2023). Texts: Collecting and analyzing event documents. In H. Hughes & A. B. M. Vadrot (Eds.), Conducting research on global environmental agreement-making (pp. 143-167). Cambridge University Press.
Bach, T., & Martin, B. (2023). Negotiations: Navigating global environmental conferences. In H. Hughes & A. B. M. Vadrot (Eds.), Conducting research on global environmental agreement-making (pp. 93-120). Cambridge University Press.
Bansard, J. (2023). Beyond negotiations: Studying side events, exhibition booths, and other neglected conference spaces. In H. Hughes & A. B. M. Vadrot (Eds.), Conducting research on global environmental agreement-making (pp. 121-140). Cambridge University Press.
Betsill, M., & Nasiritousi, N. (2023). Frameworks: Developing and working with analytical frameworks. In H. Hughes & A. B. M. Vadrot (Eds.), Conducting research on global environmental agreement-making (pp. 43-57). Cambridge University Press.
Borgatti, S., Everett, M., & Freeman, L. (2002). Ucinet for Windows: Software for social network analysis. Analytic Technologies.
Borgatti, S., Everett, M., & Johnson, J. (2018). Analyzing social networks. Sage.
Brunnée, J. (2002). COPing with consent: Law-making under multilateral environmental agreements. Leiden Journal of International Law, 15(1), 1–52.
Burnham, P., Gilland Lutz, K., Grant, W., & Layton-Henry, Z. (Eds.). (2008). Elite interviewing. In Research methods in politics (pp. 231–246). Red Globe Press.
Chasek, P. S. (2001). Earth negotiations: Analyzing thirty years of environmental diplomacy. United Nations University Press.
Choy, T. K., Faier, L., Hathaway, M. J., et al. (2009a). Strong collaboration as a method for multi-sited ethnography: On mycorrhizal relations. In M.-A. Falzon (Ed.), Multi-sited ethnography: Theory, praxis and locality in contemporary research (pp. 197–214). Routledge.
Gray, N. J., Corson, C., Campbell, L. M., Wilshusen, P. R., Gruby, R. L., & Hagerman, S. (2023). Collaboration: Working together across time and space. In H. Hughes & A. B. M. Vadrot (Eds.), Conducting research on global environmental agreement-making (pp. 210-227). Cambridge University Press.
Grimmer, J., & Stewart, B. M. (2013). Text as data: The promise and pitfalls of automatic content analysis methods for political texts. Political Analysis, 21(3), 267–297.
Hadden, J. (2015). Networks in contention. Cambridge University Press.
Hughes, H., & Vadrot, A. B. M. (2023). Introduction: A Broadened Understanding of Global Environmental Negotiations. In Conducting Research on Global Environmental Agreement-Making. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Hughes, H., & Vadrot, A. B. M. (2023). Concepts: Selecting, applying, and innovating concepts. In Conducting research on global environmental agreement-making (pp. 58-73). Cambridge University Press.
Hjerpe, M., & Linnér, B.-O. (2010). Functions of COP side-events in climate-change governance. Climate Policy, 10(2), 167–180.
Johnstone, B. (2017). Discourse analysis. John Wiley & Sons.
Klein, R., Harris, K., Bakhtaoui, I., et al. (2021). Building climate diplomacy back better: Imagining the UNFCCC meetings of tomorrow. Stockholm Environment Institute. Retrieved from http://www.sei.org/publications/building-climate-diplomacy-back-better.
Korkea-Aho, E., & Leino, P. (2019). Interviewing lawyers: A critical self-reflection on expert interviews as a method of EU legal research. European Journal of Legal Studies, 12, 17–47.
Kuckartz, U. (2014). Qualitative text analysis: A guide to methods, practice, and using software. Sage.
Marion Suiseeya, K. R., & Zanotti, L. (2023). Ethnography: From method to methodology at plural sites of agreement-making. In H. Hughes & A. B. M. Vadrot (Eds.), Conducting research on global environmental agreement-making (pp. 186-209). Cambridge University Press.
Mitchell, R. B., Andonova, L. B., Axelrod, M., et al. (2020). What we know (and could know) about international environmental agreements. Global Environ

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