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General remarks and organisation

This course covers global public goods, international cooperation, market failures, environmental protection, health, peace, security, education, and research. It includes readings, evaluations, deadlines, debates, and active participation.

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General remarks and organisation

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  1. General remarks and organisation

  2. Practical considerations • Brief presentations • Goals and overview of the course • Calendar • Organisation • Readings • Evaluation • Deadlines

  3. To reach me • By e-mail at francois.gemenne@sciencespo.fr • By phone 06 50 51 69 99 • I’m also available after the class, or you can make an appointment.

  4. Goals and overview of the course • Understand what are global public goods and how they are provided • Assess whether they can be useful in an era of globalisation • Understand the logic of collective action

  5. Overview • Session 0 – Presentation and organisation • Part 1 - What are global public goods? • Session 1 - When the market is helpless: market failures and externalities • Session 2 - Managing the global commons

  6. Part 2 - Global public goods in a globalized world • Session 3: Climate change, or how to tackle a 'global public bad • Session 4: Environmental protection: how do environmental agreements work? • Session 5 – Guest lecture: Micro-markets: a perspective from Bangladesh • Session 6: Health: epidemiological surveillance and medical breakthroughs • Session 7: Cultural heritage • Session 8: Peace and security: are international organizations useful? • Session 9 : Communications, knowledge and cyberspace • Session 10: Education and research

  7. Part 3 - Providing global public goods • Session 11: Different mechanisms of international cooperation; single best effort, weakest link and aggregate effort • Session 12: Compliance and international organisations

  8. Readings • Materials from the reading list are general background readings • More specific materials will be posted for some sessions

  9. Evaluation and deadlines • Continuous evaluation, 4 marks: • Bibliographical research: 30 % • Debate: 30% • Talking points: 30% • Participation: 10%

  10. Active participation • Personal input • Interaction with others • Connect the readings with current events • Bring up new topics and ideas • Presence in class

  11. Bibliographical research • About 25-40 references • Presented in a consistent way • Due on November 24th • On a topic that you can choose yourself (but that has to be related to the class) • Topic needs to be pre-approved

  12. Debates • Groups of 2, 3 or 4 • You have to: • Present some arguments with regard to international cooperation on a specific global public good: a case-study • You need to engage the class in the debate • Evaluation based on your command of the topic, your understanding of the bigger picture, and your presentation skills • Based on this presentation, you need to present a paper summarising your talking points. • This paper is about 1500 words • It is due one week after your debate

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