Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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INST 3700 - Global Governance
This course introduces students to the norms, practices, and structures underlying global collective order. It examines shifts from governments to governance in the management of international affairs, as well as the policy debates and coordination challenges these entail and the core theoretical concepts we use to understand them. How has increasing interdependence shaped the ways in which modern states and non-state actors identify and respond to collective goods and harms? The course begins with a consideration of new risks and rewards created by contemporary globalization in areas of security, aid and development, trade and finance, and human rights. We consider who ‘wins’ and ‘loses’ in the international system by addressing issues of power, authority, and legitimacy as well as the changing roles of states, formal and informal Institutions (e.g. The UN, WTO), NGOs, and transnational corporations. We conclude by examining the formation an ‘international community’ and assessing its capacity in responding to collective challenges such as poverty and inequality, trans- and sub-national political violence, economic regulation, cyber, energy, and environmental security, and humanitarian intervention.
Requisites: Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to identify multiple methodologies, approaches, and theoretical concepts in analyzing global governance
- Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of salient policy debates related to global risk and cooperation
- Students will be able to demonstrate awareness of audience in writing and adopt effective strategies for communicating in diverse rhetorical situations
- Students will be able to cite and document a broad range of sources to support an argument using a consistent and formal method of citation and format
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