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F1518 Global Governance for Peace and Security, Cooperation and Development (Global Challenges core)

Nielsen Richard

The course focuses on the interplay among states, international organizations (such as the UN, WTO, IMF, ECB, World Bank), multinational private and state-owned corporations, sustainability investment funds, civil society organizations, and activist networks in global governance. The course considers leadership and conflict resolution strategies and methods for peace making, cooperation, security, and sustainable development across physical environment, social, and economic sustainability dimensions. Among the topics considered are: a brief evolutionary history of premodern, modern, and postmodern approaches to international and global cooperation; micro, meso, and macro level institutional causes of non-cooperation and obstacles to developmental cooperation; vision and values based strategies; incentive and networking based strategies; power based strategies; empowering strategies; charismatic, story-telling, and alternative institutional logic strategies; and, alternative institution building and social entrepreneurship strategies. Historical and contemporary cases and issues such as water scarcity are considered throughout the course.

 

Summary Topic Outline
1. Introduction and overview: Macro and micro process and outcome methods for global governance leadership and conflict resolution.
2. Historical perspectives-visions of global governance for peace, security, cooperation, and development.
3. Obstacles to global governance, peace, security, cooperation, and development: micro individual, meso organizational, and macro institutional and political-economic.
4. Vision and values based global governance leadership.
5. Incentive and networking based global governance leadership.
6. Power based top-down compliance and bottom-up whistle-blowing governance leadership.
7. Empowering, dialog, and critical intellectual based global governance leadership.
8. Alternative institution building, social and institutional entrepreneurship leadership for global governance.
9. Reflection and course summary.