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GOVN 540: Global Governance and Law (Rev. 5) Report a Broken Link

Governance 540: Global Governance and Law, a three-credit, graduate-level course that provides an overview of the theoretical debates on law as governance in an increasingly globalized world. The study of law and governance is multidisciplinary, including sociology, political science, political theory, international relations, psychology, and law. Although it is not possible to cover the vast subject of global governance and law in a single course, the issues that we will study here reflect the significance of globalization to contemporary politics. This course provides the tools and concepts necessary for you to understand and think critically about practices of governance, and how and towards what ends they function in contemporary societies. We will explore some of the current debates on globalization, especially in relation to violence and the use of force, political community, legal legitimacy, and democratic practices.

Textbook

Prashad, Vijay. (2007). The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World. The New Press.

Unit 1: Introduction to Global Governance and Law

Charlton, L. (1999). How to write an argumentative essay. In M. Charlton (Ed.), Crosscurrent: International relations in the post–Cold War era (2nd ed., pp. 597–602). ITP Nelson Publishing.
Rosenau, J. N. (1992). Governance, order, and change in world politics. In J. N. Rosenau & E.-O. Czempiel (Eds.), Governance without government: Order and change in world politics (pp. 1–29). Cambridge University Press.
Scholte, J. A. (2001). The globalization of world politics. In J. Baylis & S. Smith (Eds.), The globalization of world politics: An introduction to international relations (2nd ed., pp. 13–32). Oxford University Press.

Unit 2: Governance, Governmentality, and Law

Turkel, G. (1990). Michel Foucault: Law, power, and knowledge. Journal of Law and Society, 17(2), 170–193.
Inda, X. J. (2002). Biopower, reproduction, and the migrant woman’s body. In A. J. Aldama & N. H. Quiñonez (Eds.), Decolonial voices: Chicana and chicano cultural studies in the 21st century (pp. 98–112). Indiana University Press.
Foucault, M. (1991). Governmentality. In G. Burchell, C. Gordon, & P. Miller (Eds.), The Foucault effect (pp. 87–104). The University of Chicago Press.
Dillon, S. (2016). “Can they ever escape?” Foucault, Black feminism, and the intimacy of abolition. In P. Zurn & A. Dilts (Eds.), Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the future of abolition (pp. 259–276). Palgrave MacMillan.

Unit 3: The Evolution of International Law

Falk, R. (2006). International law and the future. Third World Quarterly, 27(5), 727–737.
Stevens, J. (2006). Recreating the State. Third World Quarterly, 27(5), 755–766.
Anghie, A. (2006). The evolution of international law: Colonial and postcolonial realities. Third World Quarterly, 27(5), 739–753.
Okafor, O. C. (2006). Poverty, agency and resistance in the future of international law: An African perspective. Third World Quarterly, 27(5), 799–814.
Chinkin, C., & Charlesworth, H. (2006). Building women into peace: The international legal framework. Third World Quarterly, 27(5), 937–957.

Unit 4: The Global South and International Law

Baxi, U. (2006). What may the “Third World” expect from international law? Third World Quarterly, 27(5), 713–725.
King-Irani, L. (2006). Exiled to a liminal legal zone: Are we all Palestinians now? Third World Quarterly, 27(5), 923–936.
Mgbeoji, I. (2006). The civilised self and the barbaric other: Imperial delusions of order and the challenges of human security. Third World Quarterly, 27(5), 855–869.
Said, W. E. (2006). Political asylum and torture: A comparative analysis. Third World Quarterly, 27(5), 871–883.

Unit 5: Law Against Violence, Violence of Law

Cassese, A. (1986). Main legal features of the international community. In International law in a divided world (pp. 9–33). Clarendon Press.
Kim, S. S. (1991). The United Nations, lawmaking, and world order. In R. Falk, S. S. Kim, & S. H. Mendlovitz (Eds.), The United Nations and a just world order (pp. 109–124). Avalon Publishing.
Enloe, C. (1999). It takes more than two: The prostitute, the soldier, the State, and the entrepreneur. In M. B. Zinn, P. A. Hondagneu-Sotelo, & M. A. Messner (Eds.), Gender through the prism of difference: Readings on sex and gender (2nd ed., pp. 188–199). Pearson.
LeGresley, E. (1992). Introduction. In The international law of war crimes (pp. 1–24). Library of Parliament, Canada.

Unit 6: The United Nations, International Criminal Tribunals, and the Laws of War

Bassiouni, M. C. (1995). Former Yugoslavia: Investigating violations of international humanitarian law and establishing an international criminal tribunal. Fordham International Law Journal, 18(4), 1191–1211.
Fox, H. (1993). An international tribunal for war crimes: Will the UN succeed where Nuremberg failed? The World Today, 49(10), 194–197.
af Jochnick, C., & Normand, R. (1994). The legitimation of violence: A critical history of the laws of war. Harvard International Law Journal, 35(1), 49–95.
Normand, R., & af Jochnick, C. (1994). The legitimation of violence: A critical analysis of the Gulf War. Harvard International Law Journal, 35(2), 387–416.

Unit 7: Globalization, Sovereignty, and Security

Shiva, V. (1994). Conflicts of global ecology: Environmental activism in a period of global reach. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 19(2), 195–207.
Mazrui, A. (1994). Global apartheid: Structural and overt. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 19(2), 185–187.
Mogwe, A. (1994). Human rights in Botswana: Feminism, oppression, and “integration.” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 19(2), 189–193.
Tandon, Y. (1994). Recolonization of subject peoples. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 19(2), 173–183.
Poynting, S. (2002). “Bin Laden in the suburbs”: Attacks on Arab and Muslim Australians before and after 11 September. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 14(1), 43–64.

Unit 8: Democracy and Global Civil Society

Falk, R. (1994). From geopolitics to geogovernance: WOMP and contemporary political discourse. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 19(2), 145–154.
Elver, H. (2006). International environmental law, water and the future. Third World Quarterly, 27(5), 885–901.
Johansen, R. C. (1994). The contribution of the World Order Models Project. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 19(2), 155–162.
Nabudere, D. W. (1994). The African challenge. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 19(2), 163–171.

Unit 9: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements

Campbell, K. M., & Doshi, R. (2020, March 18). The Coronavirus could reshape global order: China is maneuvering for international leadership as the United States falters. Foreign Affairs March-April 2020.
Jalata, A. (2018). Reimagining global social movements in the perspective of egalitarian democracy. Humanity & Society, 42(1), 68–101.
Karns, M. P., Mingst, K. A., & Stiles, K. W. (2015). Global economic governance. In International organizations: The politics and processes of global governance (3rd ed., pp. 379–423). Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Hutt, R. (2020, March 31). The economic effects of COVID-19 around the world. World Economic Forum.
Maeckelbergh, M. (2014). Social movements and global governance. In M. Parker, G. Cheney, V. Fournier, & C. Land (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization (pp. 345–358). Routledge.
Walker, R. J. B. (1994). Social movements/world politics. Millennium Journal of International Studies, 23(3), 669–700.

Unit 10: Global Governance in the Age of Neo-Conservatism

Aradau, C., & Huysmens, J. (2019). Assembling credibility: Knowledge, method and critique in times of “post-truth.” Security Dialogue, 50(1), 40–58.
Cooper, A. F., & Pouliot, V. (2015). How much is global governance changing? The G20 as international practice. Cooperation and Conflict, 50(3), 334–350.
Drolet, J.-F., & Williams, M. C. (2018). Radical conservatism and global order: International theory and the new right. International Theory, 10(3), 285–313.
Kostakos, G. (2018). About form and function: An overview and typology of UN reforms since the 1990s. Global Society, 32(2), 176–197.
Martin de Almagro, M., & Ryan, C. (2019). Subverting economic empowerment: Towards a postcolonial-feminist framework on gender (in)securities in post-war settings. European Journal of International Relations, 25(4), 1059–1079.
McKinney, J. (2018). How stalled global reform is fueling regionalism: China’s engagement with the G20. Third World Quarterly, 39(4), 709–726.
Milhorance, C., & Soule-Kohndou, F. (2017). South-South cooperation and change in international organizations. Global Governance, 23(3), 461–481.
van Noort, C. (2019). The construction of power in the strategic narratives of the BRICS. Global Society, 33(4), 462–478.