Basic courses A: Policy Processes and Institutions Required Electives

Title 10. Global Governance
Held by the Graduate School of: Public Policy
Number: 5122400
Held by the Graduate School of: Public Policy / Doctoral
Number: 5171109
Instructor TIBERGHIEN Yves
Schedule A1A2
/ Intensive course
Language English
Credit 2
Room Please check the venue (online / classroom location) by each course on UTAS or UTOL.
Abstract We face an age of unprecedented global disruptions and systemic risks. Global governance constitutes one of the key challenges in current international relations and policymaking. As demonstrated by the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, or the global financial crisis of 2008, global forces often overwhelm a political system that is primarily rooted in fragmented national sovereignty. As the global challenges facing the nations of the earth become more pressing, it becomes critical to address the classical political dilemmas of collective action, global commons, and asymmetry of benefits and costs. Are the dominant players in the system able to make progress in this large battle?
In 2025, we also emphasize the increasing challenges to the global order and explore scenarios and options for key countries, such as Japan. This course builds on extensive involvement by the instructor with global policy-makers and first-hand information.
The course begins with an overview of the theoretical dilemmas of global coordination and different approaches to global governance, including the dilemmas and obstacles involved in creating the post-war liberal order. The course also analyzes the growing role played by China in various dimensions of global governance, the current US turn against the existing order, as well as the US-China tensions and consequences of other conflicts. The second part focuses on several thematic arena, including global AI and digital governance, global biodiversity and ocean governance, SDGs, global finance, and climate change.
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