1. groups (acting as if they were a judge and staff on the Israeli Supreme Court deciding Demjanjuk's fate) present their "judicial decisions" and rationales.
   1. list decisions and justifications
   2. ask what principles they (or Israeli judges) were using to decide the case

2. seque to principles, patterns, themes of course
   1. Demjanjuk represents an international "problem" that intersects at least two of the broad problem areas that the course addresses: war and violence (the problems of peace and security) and human rights (the problems of social justice).
   2. The problem-case sits inside several prominent international organizing patterns:
      • INTL LAWs (legal principles = basis for Israeli Supreme Ct decision)
        • jurisdiction
        • specification of the crimes
        • legal procedures
      • STATES or SYSTEM of STATES (akin to jurisdiction)
        • jurisdictional disputes
        • ColdWar context of domestic decisions (why not deport to USSR?)
        • European balance of power context leading to WW2
      • INTL ORGs (especially UN, unique Nuremburg Charter group. Now also NGO conference on women in China, Bosnian negotiations, War Crimes Tribunals for Bosnia and Rwanda, ...)
        • human rights and justice issues now often debated in UN forums
        • UN declarations

      less obviously:

      • GLOBAL CAPITALISM
        • after all, why did WW2 begin (Germ econ decay)
        • why were some prisoners forced to work at labor camps?
      • INDUSTRY and TECHNOLOGY
        • the gruesome barbarity of the death camps is represented by the industrial and mechanical slaughter. Killing prisoners was reduced to the cold routines of engineering and organization.

3. Return to PROBLEMS:
   • Demjanjuk case = a "problem"
   • what other "problems" does the intl sys confront?

   POLITICS	WAR, violence	Peace
   ECON	POVERTY, Privation	Prosperity
   SOCIETY and LAW and NORMS	INJUSTICE	Justice
   ENVIRON	DECAY, pollution	Maintenance

   Thus, several patterns of organization exist.

   they clash, combine, coordinate, compete

   OUR GOAL: to disentangle these patterns and see them individually

   we'll piece them back together at the end of the semester.

   FOR THE MOMENT:

   "international organization" is the result of efforts at organizing global affairs
   "international org" is a process, the process of organizing global relations

Goals:

1. to est a framework for understanding IR, esp a framework involving CSS and GC

   Q: why is the world organized into competing nation-states?

   Q: why is the world organized by capitalist relations of production and exchange?

   Q: how do (or should) sts and firms behave?

2. to identify the actors, dynamics, and persistent relationships (structures) of IR

   actors: sts, MNCs, IOs, indivs, terrorist grps, religions, etc

   structures: anarchy, hegemony, power hierarchy, bal of power, div of labor, etc

   dynamics: conflict and war, competition, cooperation

3. to make sense of it all

   	PROBLEM
   POINT of VIEW		POLICY

To investigate the process of "international organizing", one needs to know:

-organize for what purpose?

-organize to confront what specific problems or to what goals?

-organization by whom or what?

-organize how?

AH, how to organize

1. organizing by the power of power:
   • compare INTL rels to DOMES rels
     -thus: IR needs govt, rules, law, a ruler, police, etc.

2. organizing by the power of production and exchange
   • free markets will transform the world!

3. organizing by making rules and laws
   • what is law? is it applicable to relations among n-sts? is it applicable to I concerns?
   • what is the character of IL? what kinds of laws are there? what are the limits or gaps?

4. organizing by creating organizations

5. organizing to keep up with techno and industrial change

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