- Students will acquire theoretical as well as empirical knowledge about global governance, governance mechanisms and processes as well as involved public and private actors;
- Students will be prepared to be able to critically reflect and evaluate theoretical arguments related to global governance;
- Students will learn to apply their abstract theoretical knowledge about global governance to explain current and past global regulatory activities;
- Students will be trained to critically assess existing global regulatory frameworks in different issue areas and to formulate recommendations with respect to them.
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Climate change, pandemics, armed conflict, and refugee streams are only a few examples of the transboundary problems which states and their societies are increasingly faced with. How these problems can be effectively regulated through inter-state cooperation, international organizations, NGOs or multinational corporations, we will explore in this course focusing on a broad range of issues and on the basis of scholarly research as well as case studies.
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Prior knowledge and courses related to International Relations.
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There will be two kinds of testing:
-Short written assignments making up 30% of the final grade testing (1) students' comprehension of the readings as well as (2) the ability to critically reflect on them and (3) to apply them to explain and assess ongoing global regulatory activities.
-Final paper making up 70% of the final grade testing students' ability to (1) apply abstract, theoretical as well as empirical knowledge, (2) formulate and justify own positions and (3) evaluate global policies and develop policy-relevant recommendations.
Partial results do not remain valid
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