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Global Transformations and Governance Challenges

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2024-2025

This course is earmarked for PTLJ, NECD, IP, and is offered in The Hague

Admission Requirements

Open to students on the MSc Crisis and Security Management (Institute of Security and Global Affairs) and the MA International Politics (Institute of Political Science)

Description

This course explores how major world-scale changes in contemporary society are governed – and could be governed. These global transformations include geopolitical shifts, ecological changes, technological innovations, pandemics, demographic trends, economic restructuring, reconfigured identities, and altered forms of violence and peacebuilding. The course considers what kinds of rules address global transformations, who makes those rules, through what processes, and with what consequences. We also assess the legitimacy (both empirical and normative) of current arrangements for governing global transformations, as a basis for thinking about alternative ways to handle global challenges for the future.

Course Objectives

Knowledge

  • to identify a full array of governance arrangements that address contemporary global transformations

  • to assess a variety of theories (explanatory as well as normative) regarding the governance of global transformations
    Insight

  • to formulate and defend their own explanation of the governance of contemporary global transformations

  • to articulate and justify their own criteria for normative evaluation of governance arrangements for contemporary global transformations
    Skills

  • to research – both individually and in a group – a particular scenario of governing contemporary global transformations

  • to present a cogent analysis – interweaving both theory and evidence – of the governance of contemporary global transformations

  • to communicate such an analysis effectively, both orally and in writing

Mode of Instruction

The course consists of seven lectures, class discussion, and working groups.

Asessment Method

Class participation: 10% of final grade

Group policy memo: 20% of final grade

Individual essay, 3000 words: 70% of final grade

A cumulative grade of at least 5.5 is required to pass the course.

Literature

To be announced on BrightSpace.

Registration

See 'Practical Information

Timetable

See 'MyTimetable'

Contact

prof.dr. Jan Aart Scholte
scholteja@vuw.leidenuniv.nl