Actualités et agenda
Nos formations
Présentation
- Introduce the main debates and theoretical approaches explaining what global governance is and how it has evolved between 1945 and today
- Appreciate the complexity of global governance
- Understand the role of the UN by exploring its functioning and its main bodies
- Evaluate the growing regionalization of global governance by discussing the role and the action of selected regional organizations and institutions
- Explore specific issues of global governance such as peace and humanitarian operations, global warming, and health governance
- Map some of the challenges of contemporary global governance
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: WHAT IS AND HOW IT DEVELOPED
- Conceptualizing Global Governance and International Institutions – an introduction
- Bretton Woods and the foundations of modern (financial) global governance
THE UN SYSTEM AND THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE OF SECURITY
- The UN system: the UN General Assembly, the UN Security Council, and future reforms
- Peace operations and humanitarian interventions, from peacekeeping to R2P to the stabilization doctrine
REGIONAL GOVERNANCE AND ORGANIZATIONS
- Regional governance, regional integration, and regional organizations: the EU and beyond
- Regionalization of peacekeeping and peacemaking: exploring different approaches to regional security (NATO, African Union, ASEAN)
CHALLENGES OF CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
- Global Health and Global Warming: the “new” frontiers of global governance
- Global challenges and the future of global governance: exploring the coming international (dis-)order
Modalités
Class lectures
PowerPoint presentations
Readings
Additional material proposed (videos, podcasts, etc…)
Ressources
The course material (Required readings, videos, podcasts, etc) will be posted on ICampus on a week-to-week schedule.|||| Students who feel they need to strengthen their theoretical mastery are encouraged to read the following:|||| - Lawrence S. Finkelstein, What Is Global Governance?, <i>Global Governance </i>1 (1995), 367-372|| - R. Keohane & J. Nye, “Transgovernmental Relations and International Organizations”, World Politics, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Oct., 1974), pp. 39-62|| - J. Ruggie (1992). “Multilateralism: The Anatomy of an Institution”. International Organization 3(46), pp.561-598|| - Haggard, Stephan, and Beth A. Simmons. 1987. Theories of international regimes. International Organization 41, no. 3: 491-517|| - M. Koch, “The Autonomization of IGO’s”, International Political Sociology, (2009) 3, 431– 448|| - Shanks, C., Jacobson, H. K., & Kaplan, J. H. (1996). Inertia and change in the constellation of international governmental organizations, 1981–1992. <i>International organization</i>, <i>50</i>(4), 593-627|||| More general references on international organizations:|| Several International Relations (IR) and Law journals are specifically dedicated to the study of international organizations. In particular Global Governance (which is targeting both academics and practitioners), the Review of International Organisations and the International Organizations Law Review (both more specific to the IR and Law community). Moreover, the books mentioned below will help you better understand the course. Each of them develops all or part of the topics studied in class.|||| - Barnett, Michael and Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.|| - Börzel, Tanja A., and Thomas Risse, eds. <i>The Oxford handbook of comparative regionalism</i>. Oxford University Press, 2016|| - Hurd, Ian, International Organizations: politics, law, practice, Cambridge University Library, 2011.|| - Rittberger, Volker, Bernhard Zangl, and Andreas Kruck, International Organization. 2nd edition. New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.|| - Weiss, Thomas G., and Sam Daws, eds. <i>The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations</i>. Oxford University Press, 2018.|| - Weiss, Thomas G. and Rorden Wilkinson, International Organization and Global Governance, Routledge: New York, 2014.||