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Policy Advisory and Consulting (STG-MA-ECM-PAC)

STG-MA-ECM-PAC

Description

This course starts from the premise that transnational governance means two things. First, transnational is activity across national jurisdictions rather than only between them. Second, governance is not ‘government’. Rather than a particular public authority having command and control, actors from the public and private sectors influence how issues are governed. Private and civil society actors—from individual professionals to firms, NGOs, and others—actively seek to control professional practices and create networks to influence the content of governance. Seen this way, transnational governance is a market for ideas and resources, with actors competing for influence based on their expertise and funding relative to others. How can we navigate this market for transnational governance? This course provides theoretical and methodological tools to locate professionals and organizations in networks, and to trace what tactics they employ to influence transnational governance. The course doesn’t seek to make students experts in tools like social network analysis, sequence analysis, and text-as-data approaches, but makes them familiar with their use for analytical leverage.

We will explore a range of issues linked to the following themes: climate change and sustainable transitions (green finance, sustainability standards), transnational financial governance (banking regulations, anti-money laundering), AI and digital governance (both software and hardware), and corporate power and labour (corporate interlocks, labour and activist tactics in negotiations).

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