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INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (Course number GOVT 298, Fall 2012)

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (Course number GOVT 298, Fall 2012) . Car Barn (CBN) Room 202 Class day & time: Tuesday & Thursday, 11am-12:15pm Instructor: James Raymond Vreeland , Professor 2.0 WE ARE GLOBAL GEORGETOWN!. WEGG. Who is this guy?. What is this class about?. Two words*:.

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INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (Course number GOVT 298, Fall 2012)

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  1. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS(Course number GOVT 298, Fall 2012) Car Barn (CBN) Room 202Class day & time: Tuesday & Thursday, 11am-12:15pm Instructor: JamesRaymondVreeland, Professor 2.0 WE ARE GLOBAL GEORGETOWN!

  2. WEGG Who is this guy?

  3. What is this class about?

  4. Two words*: Cooperation & Sacrifice

  5. Cooperation & Sacrifice • Among states • Formalized through “institutions” • Scary but exciting times (GFC 2008) • *Change

  6. Expectations?... • Substance: International Organizations • Focus: Intergovernmental Organizations • Others: Non-governmental Organizations, Multinational Corporations • Analytical tools • Standards of Excellence

  7. What do professors do? • Teaching • Service • Research

  8. My classes • International Political Economy • Economics: distribution of scarce resources • Politics: the role of the state in such distribution • International: how the flows of such resources across borders plays a role • Flows: goods & service (trade), money (capital mobility), people (immigration), pollutants (the environment), violence (terrorism) • International Organizations • The ways international institutions impact these flows • The IMF • Specific financial flows

  9. Pedagogy • Substance • Analytical tools • Teaching to fish

  10. Technology in the classroom • Professor 2.0 – bring your laptops to class • Syllabus: http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jrv24/GOVT_298.html • Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=james+vreeland&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1 • Google scholar: • http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=james%20vreeland&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=ws • Wikipedia?

  11. Service • (Meetings, committees) • Advising students • Service to the profession • Conferences • Reviewing research • Giving talks…

  12. Research • Informs what I teach • Keeps me on the cutting edge • Signals to the world Georgetown faculty strength • Signal attracts great students (peers) • Signals employers the university’s caliber

  13. Striving for a global impact • Teaching: • Research position: • Presentations of research:

  14. Cultural exchanges • Co-authors

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  19. What are YOUR responsibilities in this class? Go to the syllabus! www.profvreeland.com http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jrv24/GOVT_298.html

  20. Grading(mix of cooperation & conflict) • Standards of excellence • Greatness in this room!

  21. Questions, please

  22. Thank youWE ARE GLOBAL GEORGETOWN!

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