Global Governance
The subcommittee on Global Governance examines the formal and informal institutions and structures that regulate globalization. Formal governance structures such as the United Nations and Bretton Woods Institutions emerged during a period when nation-states more closely regulated flows of capital, goods, and people. In the current, increasingly globalized era, the informal transnational actors are destabilizing statist governance structures and challenging their legitimacy. Corporations and civil society organizations are playing an increasingly significant role in all levels of governance. The subcommittee seeks to understand the emergence and operation of new governance structures that now exist alongside older systems.
The Global Governance subcommittee's research and teaching program explores these developments and their implications for present concepts of representation and accountability. The subcommittee studies several issues: Given the accelerating levels of interdependence among economies, societies, and cultures, who has the legitimate authority to govern? What is the relationship between global governance structures and the governed? How should problems that cross traditional nation-state boundaries be addressed, and by whom? How can current multilateral organizations adapt to address the increasing power of non-state actors and transnational problems? Challenges such as climate change, failed states, and economic crises demand a globally coordinated approach.
View detailed lists by resource type or link to individual resources below:
Events
- Luncheon Discussion with C.P. Chandrasekhar
- Universal History as Global Thought
- Liaquat Ahamed: “Lords of Finance”
- Owning Knowledge: Science, Health and Law in an Integrated World
- Millennium Development Goals at Midpoint: Where Do We Stand and Where Do We Need To Go?
- The Economics of Climate Policy: Choices for Europe and the US
- Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
- Central Banking During A Crisis – A Practitioner’s Perspective
- Election Post-Mortem with Hendrik Hertzberg and Katha Pollitt
- Presidential Economic Advisors’ Forum
- Amartya Sen: Reasons for Justice
Videos
- Owning Knowledge: Science, Health and Law in an Integrated World
- Election Post-Mortem with Hendrik Hertzberg and Katha Pollitt
- IGERT - Global Public Goods, Part 1
- IGERT - Global Public Goods, Part 2
- IGERT - Global Public Goods, Part 3
- IGERT - Global Public Goods, Part 4
- IGERT - Global Public Goods, Q&A
- IGERT - Labor Standards and Globalization, Part 1
- IGERT - Labor Standards and Globalization, Part 2
- IGERT - Labor Standards and Globalization, Part 3
- IGERT - Labor Standards and Globalization, Part 4
- IGERT - Labor Standards and Globalization Q&A
Organizations
- Centre for the Study of Global Governance
- The Global Economic Governance Program, University College
- World Trade Organization
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- World Health Organization
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
- International Labour Organization
- School of International and Public Affairs
Related Course(s)
Global Governance
This graduate seminar reviews how various literatures identify the critical issues of governance in a highly interdependent world and formulates policy responses to them. The class will then apply these various approaches to selected case studies that raise critical global governance issues: Climate Change; Failed States; International Trade and Investment; and Democratic Accountability.