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15481
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| Year |
3
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| Semester |
S2
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
TP(60H)
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| Scientific area |
Relações Internacionais
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Entry requirements |
No requirements
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Learning outcomes |
Global Governance looks at the ways in which a system of rules, norms, and institutions frames human action at the international leve.
By the end of it, students should be able to:
1.Understand the international system as the combined effect of rules, norms, and interrelated institutions.
2.Identify some dynamics of global governance in the past and present.
3.Understand the processes of creation, adaptation, and decline of instruments of global governance.
4.Produce scientific knowledge and and transmit it in different ways.
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Syllabus |
1.History of global governance
1.1.The imperial system
1.2.The post-World War I moment
1.3.The post-World War II moment
1.4. The United Nations
1.5.The Bretton Woods system
2. Theory and concepts
2.1. The concept of global governance
2.2. Theoretical perspectives on global governance
2.3. The concept of international order
2.4. Theoretical perspectives on international order
3. The architecture of global governance
3.1. International Law
3.2. Global Public Goods
3.3. Regulatory regimes and international standards
3.4. Civil society and NGOs
4. Issues of international governance
4.1. International trade
4.2. The financial system
4.3. Migrations
4.4. Health
4.5. Humanitarian crisis
4.6. Information technologies
4.7. The environment
4.8. The sea
4.9. Outer space
5.Problems of global governance today
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Main Bibliography |
Mazower, Mark. Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present. London: Penguin Press, 2012.
Weiss, Thomas G. and Wilkinson, Rorden (eds). International Organization and Global Governance. London and New York: Routledge, 2023. (Originally published in 2013).
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
Class will blend exposition and discussion. Each will include the expoistion of theoretical and historical elements crucial to understanding global governance today, as well as content relating to current issues of global governance. Each class will also feature moments of discussion among the students and the teacher, prompted by the teacher's exposition and/or by the texts made available for the class. Students will write an essay and present it to class. Additionally, students will opt between (A) submit a written comment on a text chosen by the teacher and (B) be evaluated for their participation in the discussion moments of their colleagues' essay presentations.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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