2017-18 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PS 321 Global Governance and International Organizations
How do political actors collectively address major global problems such as climate change, violent conflict, poverty and financial crises? International organizations such as the United Nations, World Bank and WTO play a central role in governance activities and global policymaking.
This course examines the need for global governance as well as the inherent challenges to international cooperation and coordination. Part one offers an overview of the importance of global governance and introduces students to the basic theoretical debates regarding inter-state cooperation including why states create international organizations, how international organizations elicit compliance with international rules, norms and laws; and why they fail to exercise authority.
The second section of the course examines how international organizations govern peace and security and considers humanitarian intervention, global health, trade and peacekeeping operations.
The final section of the course explores the future of global governance and international organization and challenging students to consider who wins and loses in our current systems of global governance and solutions for governance failures. Students will both engage theory that permits analysis of the broad range of global governance questions and write concise, policy analyses of contemporary global issues.
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