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UN Security Council: Negotiation Simulation Teil 2

Diana Panke

Kommentar

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is the venue in which the 15 members (P5 and rotating) meet to fulfil the functions conveyed to the UNSC by Article 24 of the UN Charter (https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter ). Most notably, the UNSC is the international institution responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security. This seminar sheds light on theory and practice of UNSC negotiations. It engages in several questions: How is the UNSC institutionally designed? How does it operate in practice? Which dynamics occur when UNSC resolutions are negotiated? Which factors influence their content? How can variation in UNSC member states success be explained in this respect? Which institutional reforms might improve the UNSC? This seminar focuses on a current crisis that could call for a UNSC resolution and simulates the negotiation of the respective resolution. Most likely the seminar focuses on the situation in Yemen and the Gulf of Aden. The topic might change – subject to more recent developments. Learning outcomes include: • increasing the substantive knowledge on the UNSC, multilateral negotiations and international security • strengthening team working and communicative skills as well as multi-tasking competencies • strengthening research skills • deepening competencies in explanatory-research methodology, including analytical and theoretical competencies and qualitative analysis Basic literature (classics), students should be familiar with prior to the course: - (Axelrod 1984; Cox et al. 1973; Keohane and Nye 1977; Waltz 1979; Wendt 1992) Additional core literature: - (Malone 2008; Zartman and Berman 1982; Zartman and Rubin 2009) In order to earn ECTS credits, it is essential that all students actively participate in the UNSC simulation on both days and attend the preparatory and the debriefing sessions. In addition, everyone need to: • read the core literature and engage in additional secondary literature research on negotiation strategies • participate in one country-negotiation team o research country and case background material o each negotiation team develops a country position for the negotiating team (8-12 pages, including references to primary and secondary sources used), each team must send the country position to Diana.Panke@fu-berlin.de and Thomas.risse@fu-berlin.de six working days before the start of the simulation; o each negotiation team prepares an opening remark for the start of the UNSC negotiations (1 page) o each negotiation team dived the roles amongst themselves (SPECIFY WHICH ONES) and each team member actively embodies this role throughout the 2-day simulation o country holding the UNSC presidency at the time of the simulation– one member chairs the UNSC negotiations https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/presidency) ((deliverable only case and UNSC background, rules of procedure?) • write an individual term paper, in which you present the negotiation successes and failures of “your” country by comparing your initial country positions to the UNSC resolution passed, develop hypotheses based the academic literature to account for the variation in negotiation success, systematically analyze the theoretical exactions based on a methodologically sound approach and reflect on the empirical plausibility of the hypotheses and the implications for your country and the UNSC as a negotiation arena, discuss which (if any) institutional reforms might improve the UNSC and why PK Arbeit: - Aufarbeitung Ggst - DV: eigener Verhandlungserfolg + - - Verhandlungstheorien zur Erklärung des Erfolgs ? Hypothesen - Methoden - Erklärung delta DV Schließen

Zusätzliche Termine

Mi, 17.04.2024 16:00 - 20:00