Courses

Global Governance

This graduate seminar reviews how various literatures identify the critical issues of governance in a highly interdependent world and formulates policy responses to them. The class will then apply these various approaches to selected case studies that raise critical global governance issues: Climate Change; Failed States; International Trade and Investment; and Democratic Accountability. We will be probing the history of concepts and practices that have become central to standard notions of modernist governance, and thereby questioning their potential as models for global governance, how they are being challenged and/or eroded today, and also how they might need to be modified, defended or abandoned as the world comes to know the effects of “globalization” more and more. The seminar will turn to an international cohort of esteemed scholars to provide diverse viewpoints on these topics. It will also draw upon the intimate setting of a graduate level seminar with students from a broad array of disciplines, including economics, political sciences, sociology, anthropology, history, law, business, and international affairs.