This is the third course of Specialisation 6: Globalisation and World Order
(English track International Relations/History).
In this course, students examine the themes surrounding global organisational processes: how state systems work, where the desire for a global political order comes from, which institutions regulate global relations and what their strengths and weaknesses are. Are we on course for a global government, or will the rise of new centres of world power instead lead to greater fragmentation? The emphasis will lie on the last hundred years, in particular on institutions such as the League of Nations, the United Nations and other global governance organisations. Research will be conducted into the motivations behind setting up these institutions, how the interests of various individual nations (or groups of nations) were represented and which obstacles formed an impediment to decisive governance on global issues. Attention will be devoted not only to political organisations, but also to economic and cultural institutions (IMF, the World Bank, ADB), to allow students to acquire a thorough understanding of the structure of the international order and the recent developments in an increasingly polycentric world.
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