الحوكمة و السلم الدوليين

This course examines global governance and its relationship to international peace and security through the study of international institutions that work to implement a global governance system. The course introduces students to the theory and practice of global governance: the evolving set of institutions, norms, and power relations that structure cooperation and conflict among states and non-state actors in the international system. 

The course begins by examining foundational debates about world order, from early visions of world government to the realities of international organization, before turning to the classical and critical theoretical traditions that explain why states cooperate, compete, and construct international norms (realism, liberalism/institutionalism, constructivism, Marxism, feminism, and postcolonial approaches). Students will then trace the historical emergence of the modern international order and the rise and contestation of the liberal international order, before examining the design, power, and pathologies of international institutions, using the United Nations and the Bretton Woods institutions (notably the IMF) as central cases. The final part of the course applies these theoretical and institutional frameworks to pressing substantive areas of global governance, including human rights, international security, migration and border control, global health, and climate change. Throughout, students will be encouraged to critically assess who benefits from existing governance arrangements, whose interests are marginalized, and what reforms or alternatives might be possible.