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POL300LF(政治学 / Politics 300)
Global Governance

Masako YONEKAWA

Class code etc
Faculty/Graduate school Exchange Students from Overseas Program
Attached documents
Year 2023
Class code A8512
Previous Class code
Previous Class title
Term 春学期授業/Spring
Day/Period 金3/Fri.3
Class Type
Campus 市ヶ谷 / Ichigaya
Classroom name BT0701
Grade
Credit(s) 2
Notes
Class taught by instructors with practical experience
SDGs CP
Urban Design CP
Diversity CP
Learning for the Future CP
Carbon Neutral CP
Chiyoda Campus Consortium

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Outline and objectives

This course aims at learning the objectives and characteristics of global social, security and economic governances, focusing on four thematic issues: (1) migration; (2) peace and humanitarian; (3) human rights; and (4) development. Students are to discuss and analyze structures, actors, intentions, and limits of global governance as well as those of Japan by examining some case studies.

Goal

At the end of the course, students are expected to deepen understanding on (1) causes of major global issues; (2) actors governing the world; (3) the way the world is governed, ordered and organized; and (4) role of Japan in global governance. Students will also enhance capacity of logical and critical thinking, and expand their global view “from below.”

Default language used in class

英語 / English

Method(s)(学期の途中で変更になる場合には、別途提示します。 /If the Method(s) is changed, we will announce the details of any changes. )

Apart from lectures by the instructor and two guest speakers, students are to engage in group discussions during each class, and make at least one (group) presentation based on assigned reading materials.
Feedback and comments are provided to individual students on written assignments including a short mid-term reaction paper and a long academic essay to be submitted at the end of the term.

Active learning in class (Group discussion, Debate.etc.)

あり / Yes

Fieldwork in class

なし / No

Schedule

授業形態/methods of teaching:対面/face to face

※各回の授業形態は予定です。教員の指示に従ってください。

1[対面/face to face]:Introduction

Concept of global governance and outline of the course; discussions on presentation plans

2[対面/face to face]:Migration governance I

Concept of migrants, refugees, and internal displaced persons; causes of forced movement

3[対面/face to face]:Migration governance II

Evolution on refugee durable solutions

4[対面/face to face]:Migration governance III

Concept of humanitarian, and humanitarian aid

5[対面/face to face]:Migration governance IV

Migrants and foreign labor in Japan

6[対面/face to face]:Peace governance I

Concept of peace and conflict

7[対面/face to face]:Peace governance III

Militarization, US military bases in Japan

8[対面/face to face]:Peace governance IV

Peacekeeping, and Japan's role in global peace

9[対面/face to face]:Human rights governance

Japan's human rights records

10[対面/face to face]:Development governance I

causes and consequences of development aid

11[対面/face to face]:Development governance II

Japan's foreieng aid policy and practices

12[対面/face to face]:Development governance III

Case study of Japan's aid project in Mozambique (by a guest speaker)

13[対面/face to face]:Development governance IV

Watching documentary film "Poverty Inc."

14[対面/face to face]:Review discussion

Essay writing on unseen questions or essay assignment

Work to be done outside of class (preparation, etc.)

Before each class meeting, all students will be expected to have read the relevant chapter(s) from the text or articles. Additionally, assigned students are to prepare presentation. Students' required study time per week is at least two hours for reading, and roughly four hours for preparing presentation. Moreover, students are to read current news on a daily basis as this course deals with them in class discussion.

Textbooks

available in e-book
1 Post-Genocide Rwandan Refugees, Why They Refuse to Return ‘Home’: Myths and Realities, Masako Yonekawa, Springer, 2020
2 3 Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars, Mats Berdal and David M. Malone eds., Lynne Rienner 2000
4 The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation, Oliver P. Richmond and Gëzim Visoka eds., Oxford University Press, 2021

available in hard-copies
1 Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, Dambisa Moyo, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2010
2 Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World, David Vine, Skyhorse Publishing, 2017

References

International Organization and Global Governance, Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson eds., Routledge, 2018
Other reference materials will be provided or suggested by the instructor when necessary.

Grading criteria

Final grade will be calculated according to the following process:
mid-term report (25%);
term-end essay (50%);
in-class contribution, including group presentation (25%).

Changes following student comments

Not applicable

Equipment student needs to prepare

To be announced if any.