IR 20000 International Organizations and the Global Architecture

This course introduces the notion of constitutionalization as a relatively recent aspect in the process that has been labeled governance beyond the state. It focuses on key elements of governance such as formal ("hard") and informal ("soft") institutions, modes of cooperation among international and transnational actors in world politics, changing practices and contexts of rights in national and transnational organization, and addressing stylistic responses of policy issues. The patterns emerge as processes of institutionalization, legalization, civilization, regulation, socialization, and constitutionalization in which the political weight of policy issues and their political assessment changes and new political arenas are created, all of which lay the foundation for a global architecture.

Credits

3

Offered

Fall semester only.