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PA 5801 is also offered in Spring 2023
Spring 2013 | PA 5801 Section 004: Global Public Policy (60188)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture Workaround
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 215
UMTC, West Bank
Carlson School of Management 2-234
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 215
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Creation of rules, norms, and institutions to regulate global activities. Policy making, from exclusive domain of state to including various nonstate actors. How global policy making regulates interstate, national, and transnational activities. Creation/enforcement of global rules. Applications to international security, political economy, and other topics.
- Class Notes:
- In PA 5801, students meet once a week to combine local, class-based discussions with international, cloud-based discussions with students in Mexico and Israel. The course examines global policy through the lens of "human security," an approach that focuses on the safety and well-being of the world's most vulnerable populations. In the first half of the course, we situate the human security notion within the broad sweep of international relations theory and global policymaking. We then examine the workings of relevant global actors, including the UN and its agencies, international NGOs, and transnational social movements. Next, we study some crucial global issues in a general way, including development, humanitarian aid, transnational crime, and humanitarian military intervention. In the course's second half, students apply these general lessons learned to concrete policy dilemmas and analysis in Mexico and Israel/Palestine. More specifically, we examine Mexico's brutal drug war, which has led to the death of some 60,000 people over the last six years, and the Israeli siege of Gaza, which has generated enormous international attention and caused substantial hardship among the civilian population. Although this is a graduate class, advanced undergraduates may enroll with instructor permission.
- Class Description:
- This course introduces global public policy issues to interested graduate students. Advanced undergraduates may also join, with instructor permission. Students meet once a week to discuss topics such as foreign policymaking, security policy, the global economy, human security, human rights, humanitarian aid, international law, development assistance, and transnational crime. A brief review of classic IR theories is included, with real world policy examples. We consider the actions of states, NGOs, and international organizations. Students from partner institutions overseas may join the class discussion through video conferencing technology.
- Class Format:
- 10% Lecture
30% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations
40% Web Based
- Workload:
- 100 Pages Reading Per Week
40 Pages Writing Per Term
2-3 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60188/1133
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/jamesr_PA5801_Spring2016.pdf (Spring 2016)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 April 2013
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