The course is designed to introduce graduate (and/or Under grade with advanced- level) students to the central themes, concepts, theories, and debates in the study of global/international governance, which is a phenomenon made distinct by the anarchic nature of the Westphalian system in IR. The aim of this course is to elucidate the concept of 「Governance」 in its various meanings and to demonstrate how international organizations/institutions and regimes are related to, and indispensable, for global/international governance. And thus it can contribute to our understanding of the contemporary IR field, and its applications of the utility of international institutions and regimes in achieving public goods through collective action instead of self-help.

The aim of this graduate seminar course is to elucidate the concept of "Governance" in its various meanings and to demonstrate how thinking, concepts and theories of global/international governance can contribute to our understanding of the contemporary IR field. And in this aspect, the course approaches the global and international governance both as an emergent focus of research in IR, and an explication of the utility of international organizations/institutions and regimes in achieving public goods(ie., norms, values and maintenance of peace and stability)through collective action instead of the self-help.

Peter Kien-hong YU, W.Emily CHOW, and Shawn S.F. KAO eds.,"International Governance,Regimes, and Globalization", Lanham, Maryland:Lexingtion Books,2010

James N.Rosenau and Ernst-Otto Czempiel eds., "Governance Without Government:Order and Change in World Politics", Cambridge, UK:Cambridge University Press,1992

Margaret P.Karns, Karen A. Mignst, and Kendall W. Stiles,"International Organizations",Boulder,CO:Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2015

Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore.,"Rules for the World:International Organizations in Global Politics", Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004

Charlotte Ku and Paul F. Diehl eds., "International Law:Classic and Contemporary Readings", 2009

Anne-Marie Slaughter,"A New World Order", Princeton,NJ:Princeton University Press, 2004

"Our Global Neighborhood"
Report of the Commission on Global Governance, Oxford University Press,1995