Fall/Winter Timetable

POL2256H1F L0101

Undergraduate Course Code: POL456H1F L0101

Global Summit Governance and Diplomacy

Themes

The development, participants, performance and reform of global summit governance, through a focus on the Group of Seven and Group of Twenty as informal “soft law” plurilateral summit institutions and their relationship with the “hard law” multilateral organizations of the United Nations and Bretton Woods bodies, especially in the 21st-century. It It then assesses the competing theories and models developed to describe and explain their performance on the key dimensions of global governance, and to evaluate various proposals for improving compliance with their commitments and broader reform. It examines the G7 and G20 diplomacy of the key summit members of the United States, China, Germany and Canada, with a concluding simulation of the next G7 summit, to be hosted by Germany in the spring of 2021.

Texts

Kirton, John (2013). G20 Governance for a Globalized World (Abingdon: Routledge). (“G20 Governance”)

Format and Requirements

A two hour seminar, once a week, led by student presentations.
Critical Book Review (25%); Participation and Presentation (25%); Research Essay 2,000 words (50%)

Preparation

POL340H1 or POL341H1 or POL361H1 or POL362H1