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Global governance and the UN system

Code Cours
2223-ESPOL-EIS-EN-3019
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Establishment
ESPOL European School of Political and Social Sciences
Language of instruction
French, English
This course occurs in the following program(s)
Training officer(s)
Edoardo BALDARO
Period
S6

Présentation

Goal

  • Explain 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 and other global and regional organisations and institutions

  • Explore specific issues of global governance such as peace operations, humanitarian interventions, health, etc.

  • Map some of the challenges of contemporary global governance

Presentation

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE



  • Global Governance – introduction (The emergence of global governance)

  • Bretton Woods and the foundations of modern (financial) global governance



THE UN SYSTEM



  • The UN system and the UN General Assembly

  • UN Security Council and peace operations

  • Humanitarian intervention and R2P

  • The UN today and UN reform



REGIONAL GOVERNANCE AND ORGANISATIONS



  • Regional governance and regional organizations

  • Regionalisation of peacekeeping and peacemaking

  • The EU



CHALLENGES OF CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL GOVERNANCE



  • Global challenges and multilateralism

  • Global health governance and the COVID pandemic

  • TBC


Modalités

Forms of instruction

Class lectures

PowerPoint presentations

Readings

Additional material proposed (videos, podcasts, etc…)

Evaluation
Examen : coeff. 100

Ressources

Bibliography

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 &amp; 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., &amp; 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.||