Global Governance and the Rule of Law 1300-OG-GG-RL-FS

Global governance is understood as “a dynamic process in which legal, political and economical arrangements unleash interests, change the balance of force, and lead to further reinvention of the governance scheme itself.” We need to come up with innovative approaches to global policy in the face of a legal and institutional architecture manifestly ill-equipped to address our most urgent global challenges. Global poverty, conflict, injustice and inequality are also legal and institutional regimes. Global governance research explores the ways in which they are reproduced and what might be done in response. The aim of the course is to provide a platform for new thinking about international legal and institutional arrangements in the world of an urgent need for responsibility for the future. It also aims to present what role can US and Europe play in this process. Is global governance possible? Is wider responsibility possible?

1.What Does Global Governance Mean? – 2 hours
2.Structure, Sovereignty, and the International System – 2 hours
3.Liberalism and Neo-Functionalism – 2 hours
4.Theories of Hegemony and Neo-Liberalism – 2 hours
5.The English School and Constructivist Approaches – 2 hours
6.International Law, Norms, and Global Governance – 2 hours
7.Mechanisms of Global Governance – 2 hours
8.The Design, Formation, and Death of Bodies of Global Governance – 2 hours
9.The Role and Function of Bodies of Global Governance – 2 hours
10.Collective Security, the League of Nations, and the United Nations – 2 hours
11.Regional Organizations – 2 hours
12.International Financial Bodies – 2 hours
13.How Global Governance Matters – 4 hours
14. Wrap-Up – 2 hours

Total student workload

Number or hours with the lecturer: - participation in the lectures - 20 hours Individual time required for self study: - Preparation for the test and classes – 130 hours In total: 150 hours (6 ECTS)

Learning outcomes - knowledge

W1.The goal is to make students knowledgeable about the leading issues of global governance: Student knows major philosophical issues involved in the field of global governance and is able to sort and compare different themes according to existence of reciprocal links between them. W2.To make students knowledgeable with representative texts that touch on main problems concerning global governance: Student becomes familiar with philosophical concepts supporting analysis of the main global governance issues, he/she can assign them to specific authors and point out to philosophers dealing with particular subjects. W3. Shaping consciousness of the students about the importance and significance - for science and society - of reflection on issues of global governance: Students are able to identify the relationship between the issues of epistemology and scientific and social problems. Students are able to assess the degree of interrelation between the theoretical and the practical aspects of discussed problems.

Learning outcomes - skills

U1.Gaining skills in the ability to analyze scientific text and undertake discussion around above-mentioned topics: The student explores and analysis scientific texts in the light of particular problems, he/she can present them and be critical about them. U2.Gaining skills in the efficient use of specialized terminology and presenting workable hypotheses within above-mentioned topics: The student can present the arguments from selected texts and independently problematise selected issues in the philosophy of human rights.

Learning outcomes - social competencies

K1.Gaining skills in examining scientific problems and be critical about them. K2.Gaining skills in reproducing the arguments of the selected texts and self problematizing selected issues of contemporary discourse of global governance. K3.Gaining skills in indicating relationships between the issues of epistemology and scientific and social problems. Understanding their mutual influence and shaping ability to assess the degree of theoretical and practical problems

Teaching methods

Lecture and conversation with students

Prerequisites

Good knowledge of English

Course coordinators

Marcin Kilanowski

Assessment criteria

Written essay and active participation in the class
Criteria:
0-59% failed
60%-69% - sufficient
70%-85% - good
86%- 100% - very good

Practical placement

not applicable

Additional information

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