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Global Governance: Institutions and Processes
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:09.02.2024 09:59:28
Study Course Information | |||||||||
Course Code: | PZK_136 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
Credit Points: | 5.00 | ECTS: | 7.50 | ||||||
Branch of Science: | Politics | Target Audience: | Political Science | ||||||
Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
Course Supervisor: | Mārtiņš Daugulis | ||||||||
Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szfrsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
Study Course Planning | |||||||||
Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
Lectures (count) | 10 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 20 | ||||
Classes (count) | 10 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
Total Contact Hours | 40 | ||||||||
Study course description | |||||||||
Preliminary Knowledge: | Students should have basic knowledge about international relations and international processes. | ||||||||
Objective: | The course aims to help students gain a deeper appreciation of how the world of global governance works, as well as the margins of maneuverability within it for improving outcomes, considering that the system of global governance poses constraints and opportunities for policy whether you operate in the public, private or civil sectors, at national or international levels. | ||||||||
Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
1 | Introducing Global Governance | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
2 | The Modern Institutional and Legal Framework: Institution of Multilateralism and International Law | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
3 | Emerging Trends of Global Governance: Non-State Actors – Multinational Corporations. Networks & and Social Media | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
4 | Emerging Trends of Global Governance: Polycentric Governance and Geopolitical Shifts | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
5 | Global Governance Processes: Issue Framing and Agenda Setting | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
6 | Global Governance Processes: Capacity Building; Civil & Private Sectors | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
7 | Coercive Diplomacy & the Collective Use of Force | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
8 | Summary and Conclusions | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
9 | Presentation and discussion of students' individual papers | Classes | 10.00 | auditorium | |||||
Assessment | |||||||||
Unaided Work: | • Active participation during classes and seminars (as well as criticism and recommendations given in response to other students' reports) • Essays • Final report | ||||||||
Assessment Criteria: | Students have to take into account the following requirements and grading criteria: • Active participation during classes and seminars (as well as criticism and recommendations given in response to other students' reports) – 35% • Essays – 10% • Final report – 20% • Presentation of the final report – 15% • Exam – 20% | ||||||||
Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
Knowledge: | Students will be able to characterise the principles of international governance as well as identify the challenges of international governance. | ||||||||
Skills: | Students will be able to identify elements, which are necessary for the analysis of international governance systems. | ||||||||
Competencies: | Students will be able to analyse multi-polarity, bipolarity and uni-polarity of international governance systems from a historic perspective, and apply it in a contemporary context. | ||||||||
Bibliography | |||||||||
No. | Reference | ||||||||
Required Reading | |||||||||
1 | Weiss, “What Happened to the Idea of World Government?” International Studies Quarterly, 53 (No 2, 2009):253-271 | ||||||||
2 | Dingwerth & Pattberg, “Global Governance as a Perspective on World Politics,” Global Governance, 12 (No 2, 2006) | ||||||||
3 | Jentleson, “Global Governance in a Copernican World,” Global Governance, 18 (No 2, 2012) | ||||||||
4 | Reimann, “A View from the Top: International Norms, Politics, and the Growth of NGOs,” International Studies Quarterly, 50 (No 1, 2006) | ||||||||
5 | Ruggie, “Foreword,” in Weiss & Thakur, Global Governance and the United Nations | ||||||||
Additional Reading | |||||||||
1 | Perlez, “Stampede to Join China’s Development Bank Stuns Even Its Founder,” New York Times, April 2, 2015 | ||||||||
2 | Acharya, “Can Asia Lead? Power Ambitions and Global Governance in the Twenty-First Century,” International Affairs, 87 (No. 2, 2011) 851–869 | ||||||||
3 | Carpenter, et al., “Explaining the Advocacy Agenda: Insights from the Human Security Network,” International Organization, 68 (No. 2, 2014): 449-470 |