POL 761 - Global Institutions and Policy

3 Credit(s) This course examines the ever-changing structures, processes, and outcomes of global governance and policy. Keeping in mind the increasing interconnectedness of global society, it also endeavors to understand the global community as well as the overlapping networks of formal and informal international institutions and actors on the global stage. The underlying assumption of the course is that how we understand the role of these elements, and where they fit into particular issue spheres, is central to meeting the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Three lecture hours per week.