WORLD INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES

The World Institutions and Policies course gives students advanced knowledge of political science about the key policymaking institutions and about the main policies of the world political system.

All the students will participate in the class discussions. They are required to study the chapter on schedule and write a two-page ‘discussion paper’ before the class. The discussion paper is the outline of the key points, concepts, and terms of the chapter, and the student’s remarks about the chapter topics and issue(s).

Explaining and understanding global politics

Hegemonic-order theory

Policy-making institutions and structure of government

Hegemony and change in the global system

The contemporary global system

Political Islam and the global system

The next global system

Security policy

Global policies

• Attinà Fulvio (2011), The global political system, Palgrave Macmillan (chapters 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9)

• Ayoob Mohammed (2007), Challenging hegemony: political Islam and the North-South divide, in “International Studies Review”, 9, 4, 616-628.
• Chase-Dunn Christopher and Kirk S. Lawrence (2011), The Next Three Futures, Part Two: Possibilities of Another Round of US Hegemony, Global Collapse, or Global Democracy, in “Global Society”, 25, 3, 269-286.
• Nexon Daniel H. and Iver B. Neumann (2017), Hegemonic-order theory: A field-theoretic account, in “European Journal of International Relations”.