Courses 2015
Geneva Summer Schools is proud to announce an intensive and interdisciplinary course offering for 2015 reflecting the best of the University of Geneva’s research, partnerships with international institutions, and privileged relationships with international and non-governmental organizations.
June 22 - July 10, 2015
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This course will explore issues related to global governance and international politics. Students will be immersed in the international world of Geneva as they pursue an interdisciplinary program that will provide them with a truly global perspective on current affairs. Topics to be explored include: globalization and theories of international relations, actors and patterns of global governance, global governance, multilateralism and international organizations, international law in the age of global governance, WTO and internationalization, among others.
This summer school is entitled “Understanding Global Governance” because the term “Global Governance” needs to be explored deeply for a better understanding of its meanings, patterns, prospects, features, and limits. The aim of the course is to provide students with a clear understanding of current global affairs and means of governance taking place on a global scale. The challenge, in the words of James N. Rosenau, is to search for order in disorder, for coherence in contradiction, and for continuity in change. It is to look for authorities that are obscure, boundaries that are in flux, and systems of rule that are emergent. And it is to discern powerful tensions, profound contradictions, and perplexing paradoxes. The task is that difficult because never before has change come so rapidly, on such a global scale, and with such global visibility as it has been described by the Commission on Global Governance. Globalization, global governance, global civil society, global law, expansion of human rights, global democracy, emerging regional groups and so on. These terms, concepts, changes and developments are the products of phenomenons such as the expansion of technologies, increasing interconnectedness between people and places, creation of informal and contemporary governance mechanisms in local, regional and global scale, rising influence of non-governmental organizations in world affairs, multiplication of international courts and tribunals, recognition of human rights and democratic principles. In parallel to traditional diplomacy between national players, all of the activities of these emerging players of global affairs are being carried out today in Geneva. In combination with exposure to the activities and institutions of global governance taking place in this city, the course will explore the theoretical underpinnings of global governance, its existing paradigms, mechanisms, and actors, and the frontiers in its future development.
Global Studies Institute. University of Geneva. 6 ECTS.
Professor Nicolas Levrat (Adademic Director)
Director, Global Studies Institute
Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva
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Upper year undergraduates and MA students with an interest in current affairs and global issues.
2300 CHF
Application Deadline: May 15, 2015
