PO 497R

This is a course about debates in (largely Western) political thought about justice and legitimacy, applied to problems that transcend existing borders of sovereign Westphalian states, and some of which challenge the very ideas of sovereignty and statehood. We will be particularly concerned with issues of governance and regulation, across borders and within and between multilateral institutions. The hope is that this seminar will be a useful examination of the space between conceptual and normative theoretical efforts (which now abound) and pressing real-world concerns about governance beyond the Westphalian imaginary.