Course Objectives and Content Presentation

Global Governance and Development emerged at the beginning of this century across various disciplinary and institutional fields, both in theorization and instrumentalization.

This process began in the 1990s with the production of ideas and policies that traversed major spheres of knowledge in political science, economics, social sciences, and international relations.

Both notions construct diverse forms of legitimization through the delegation of power and authority roles, the transformation of the political system, and the transnationalization of all public and private agendas.

The course has four main axes:

  • Global Governance and Development: theory
  • UN Development System
  • Architecture of Global Governance and Development
  • Regulatory Governance of Global Development

Methodology

Presentation of pedagogical material: set of Global Development and Governance graphics: summary of course content in graphics (PowerPoint): one copy for each student.

Presentation of a consultation guide for printed and digital material (papers) on Global Development and Governance.

I Theory of Global Governance and Development

  • Theoretical reading of the UN and development in the 20th century
  • Notion of global development in the 21st century: theoretical approach
  • Global governance and development: theoretical definitions
  • Stakeholders, multiple stakeholders, governance and global development: conceptual analysis
  • Decision-making: theoretical implications in governance and global development
  • Reading of the notion of business for development
  • Theoretical nexus between self-regulation and regulatory governance of global development

II Development, Aid, and International Cooperation in the 20th Century

  • Development, Aid, and International Cooperation Paradigm: from 1945 to 2000: brief synthesis
  • State-oriented Development: public interventions in development
  • UN and Development: analysis of the UN’s role and contribution to global development regulatory frameworks from 1945 to 2000
  • Development and Welfare State/Nation-State

International Development Financing System from 1945 to 2000: Official Development Assistance/Aid, state contributions, FDI (Foreign Direct Investment), bilateral and multilateral organizations, private sector contributions, philanthropy…

  • Non-state actors/NGOs and development
  • Bilateral and multilateral cooperation and international cooperation, aid, and development policies
  • IOs: International Organizations and their roles in development, cooperation, and international aid policies
  • UN Development Decades: analysis of each Development Decade
  • First Development Decade: 1960–1970
  • Second Development Decade: 1971–1980
  • Third Development Decade: 1981–1990
  • Fourth Development Decade: 1991–2000

Right to Development: analysis of the first UN Declaration:

  • Right to Development, 1986, UN

Law and Development Movement (LDM) & Rule of Law and Development (RoLD): role of LDM & RoLD in the dissemination of international development frameworks and decision-making processes.

Synthesis of the second part: evolution of cooperation, aid, and development from 1945 to the end of the 20th century: international development decades (UN); Law and Development movement; decision-making in international cooperation for development; policy formulation in international cooperation for development; reorientation of the state in development: decentralization; transfer of roles from national to subnational levels; governance; crisis of the system of providers and recipients of international development aid: from 1945 to 2000.

Stakeholders and multiple stakeholders: S + MS = Global Development and Governance

  • Stakeholders and multiple stakeholders: approaches and actors
  • Stakeholders and decision-making
  • Multiple stakeholders and public and private interventions

Governance System Orienting Development

  • UN: Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): 2000–2015
  • UN Sustainable Development Paradigm
  • UN: SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals: Agenda 2030
  • Transnationalization of Public Goods and the emergence of Global Public Goods
  • Business and Development: new rhetoric of development
  • Right to Development: 25 years after the first 1986 Declaration: analysis of the second UN Declaration, 2016:
  • Right to Development, 2016, UN

Global Partnership for Development and Aid Effectiveness

  • Inclusion of the private sector in Global Development: UN, Business and Development
  • Transnational corporations and Global Development
  • Business Partnership for Development: PPP (Public-Private Partnership): State & private sector; P&B (Public & Business): corporations & public markets; UN & private sector; IOs & private sector… new international partnership entities… Global Partnership Forum:
  • First Global Partnership/Alliance Forum for Effective Development Cooperation, Mexico, 2014
  • Second Forum: Global Partnership/Alliance for Effective Development Cooperation, Nairobi, 2016

Harmonization and Aid Effectiveness: “Aid Effectiveness”

Effective Development Cooperation and the international aid system

UN High-Level Forum on Development Effectiveness

Development Financing

  • Analysis of the three UN conferences: Monterrey 2002, Doha 2008, Addis Ababa 2015
  • Private sector and financing for global development: corporate policies, philanthropy, and global foundations
  • New orientations of the UN, bilateral and multilateral cooperation in financing for global development
  • OECD: Taxation > contributions of the tax system to development
  • New political economy of global development financing?

Synthesis of the third part: stakeholders; delegation; New Public Management (NPM) and Global Development/Governance; Aid Effectiveness; Sustainable Development and the nexus with Business and Development and public-private partnership (PPP) policies; global development and the nexus with the notion of Global Public Goods; Agenda 2030 and COP21 Paris; evolution of decision-making systems and financing policies in the public and private spheres of global development and governance; new governance devices: Governance and Global Development 2000–2017.

IV Regulatory Governance of Global Development

  • Regulatory governance: regulation and deregulation of development
  • System of norms: normativization of global development
  • New International Governance Organizations (NIGOs): in the system of regulations and in the governance system of Global Public Goods
  • Business, Human Rights, and Development: regulatory frameworks/voluntary principles
  • Independent regulatory bodies: public and private regulators/operators
  • Transnational public and private networks and the construction of new regulatory systems: National Action Plan on Human Rights and Business/Companies
  • Transnational agendas of public and private actors and regulatory governance
  • Governance and Development Movement: law + rule of law + frameworks + new governance entities + private sector + delegation + regulation + norms

Synthesis of the fourth part: Governance Movement of Development: dissemination of norms and voluntary principles; dynamics of interdependence of global regulation structures of governance and global development; authority and norms; legitimization of norms; political economy of norms; governance and self-regulation of development; towards a lex mercatoria of global development? governance and public and private regulations in global development.

Basic Bibliography

  • Bayne, N., and Woolcock (Edited by), 2007, The New Economic Diplomacy: Decision making and negotiations in international economics relations, Ashgate Publishing Limited
  • Bianculli, A., Jordana, A., Fernández-i-Marín, X., (Edited by) 2015, Accountability and Regulatory Governance: Audits, Controls and Responsibilities in the Politics of Regulation, Palgrave Macmillan
  • Brousseau, E., Dedeurwaerdere, T., and Siebenhüner, (editors) 2012, Reflexive Governance for Global Public Goods, MIT Press.
  • Cooper, A., F., Hocking, B., and Maley, W., (Edited by) 2008, Global Governance and Diplomacy: worlds apart? Palgrave MacMillan
  • Farrall, J., and Rubenstein, K., (Edited by) 2013, Sanctions Accountability and Governance in a Globalised World, Cambridge University Press
  • Gilardi, F., 2009, Delegation in the Regulatory State: Independent Regulatory Agencies in Western Europe, EE Elgar
  • Grande, E., (Editor), Pauly, L., (Editor), 2007, Complex Sovereignty: Reconstituting Authority in the Twenty-First Century, University of Toronto Press
  • Green, J., F., 2014, Rethinking Private Authority: Agent and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance, Princeton University Press
  • Helfand, M., A., (edited by) 2015, Negotiating State and Non-State Law: The Challenge of Global and Local Legal Pluralism, Cambridge University Press
  • Hodgkinson, G., P., and Starbuck, W., H., (edited by) 2012, The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making, Oxford University Press
  • Levi-Faur, D., (Edited by), 2016, Handbook on the Politics of Regulation, EE Elgar
  • Likosky, M., B., (Editor) 2005, Privatising Development: Transnational Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights, Brill Academic Publishers, OGEL Journal
  • Martinussen, J., 1997, Society, State and Market: A guide to competing theories of development, Zed Books
  • Oestreich, J., E., (Edited by), 2012, International Organizations as Self-Directed Actors. A framework for analysis, Routledge.
  • Pattberg, P., Biermann, F., Chan, S., Mert, A., Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development: emergence, influence and legitimacy, EE Elgar
  • Peters, B., G., and Pierre, J., 2016, Comparative Governance: Rediscovering the Functional Dimension of Governing, Cambridge University Press
  • Przeworski, A., Alvarez, M., Cheibub, J-A., and Limonge, F., 2000, Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990, Vol. 3 Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press.
  • Rosenau, J., N., and Czempiel, E-O (Edited by) 2000, Governance Without Government: Order and Change in World Politics, Cambridge Studies in International Relations.
  • Sarooshi, D., 2007, International Organizations and their exercise of sovereign powers, Oxford University Press
  • Tallberg, J., Sommerer, Th., Squatrito, The., Jönsson, Ch., 2013, The Opening Up of International Organizations: Transnational Access in Global Governance, Cambridge University Press
  • Tesner, S., 2000, The United Nations and Business: A Partnership Recovered, St. Martin´s Press
  • Trebilcock, M., and Mota Prado, M., 2014, Law and Development, Advanced Introduction to, EE Elgar
  • Trubek, D., M., and Santos, A., 2008, The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal, Cambridge University Press
  • UN, Sagafi-Nejad, T., in collaboration with John H., Dunning, 2008, The United Nations and Transnational Corporations: From Code of Conduct to Global Compact, United Nations Intellectual History Project Series, Indiana University Press.
  • UN, Jolly, R., Emmerij, L., Ghai, D., Lapeyre, F., 2004, UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice, United Nations Intellectual History Project Series, Indiana University Press
  • UN, Stokke, O., 2009, the UN and Development: from Aid to Cooperation, United Nations Intellectual History Project Series, Indiana University Press
  • UNDP: Kaul, I., Grunberg, I., Stern, M., A., (edited by), 1999, Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st. Century, published by UNDP, New York
  • Williams, D., 2012, International Development and Global Politics: History, theory and practice, Routledge

Complementary Bibliography

  • Bazbauers, A., R., 2017, The World Bank and Transferring Development: Policy Movement through Technical Assistance, Springer
  • CDP: Carbon Disclosure Project: International Organization: global disclosure system: http://www.cdp.net
  • IATI International Aid Transparency Initiative
  • GDA Governance Data Alliance
  • Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
  • Aid Data Open Data for International Development: http://www.aiddata.org
  • Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation: http://www.effectivecooperation.org
  • Thorbecke, E, 2006, The Evolution of the Development Doctrine 1950-2005, Research Paper No 2006/155, United Nations University, UNU WIDER
  • The Task Force for Global Health (OSC: organización de la sociedad civil NOIG): http://www.taskforce.org
  • NEPAD: http://www.nepad.org
  • Global Task Force of Local and Regional Governments: http://global-taskforce.org
  • Global Initiatives: B4E Business for the Environment > Responsible Business > SBA Sustainable Business Award: http://www.globalinitiatives.com
  • Naciones Unidas, 2015, Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development; Naciones Unidas, New York
  • Naciones Unidas, 2015, Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Naciones Unidas, New York
  • OCDE, Tax Without Borders: http://www.tiwb.org
  • OECD: La Gouvernance au XXI siècle, 2002, OECD Publishing > http://www.oeced-library.org/gouvernance-au-xxie-siecle_9789264289369-fr
  • OCDE, 2005, Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, OECD Publishing, Paris
  • OCDE, 2011, Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, Cuarto Foro de Alto Nivel sobre la Eficacia de la Ayuda, Busan
  • OCDE, 2016, Hacia una Cooperación al Desarrollo más Eficaz: Informe de Avances 2016, PNUD – OCDE
  • UCLG Global Network of Cities Local and Regional Governments: http://www.uclg.org

UN: 2005, Enhanced Cooperation between the United Nations and all relevant partners, in particular the private sector, Report of the Secretary-General, United Nations General Assembly >>> UN 2001, Cooperation between the United Nations and all relevant partners, in particularly the private sector, Report of the Secretary-General: Fifty-sixth session Towards Global Partnerships

  • UN FfD Financing for Development: http://www.un.org/esa/ffd
  • UN Development Business: World Bank > http://www.devbusiness.com
  • UN & Business: http://www.business.un.org
  • UNDP: Growing Business Markets: Business Work for Development: http://www.growinginclusivemarkets.org

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