This assignment counts for 5 points towards your course grade. It is due in class on
Monday, December 7.
Read the following carefully. Points will be deducted for not following these instructions.
In 2-3 typed, double-spaced pages (twelve point standard font, minimum one inch
margins on all sides), answer the following question:
This week the United Nations conference on climate change opens in Paris, in the wake
of the recent terrorist attacks in that city. Over the past year, the European Union and
other international institutions have struggled to respond to a financial crisis and a
refugee crisis. These events raise the question of whether the current system of
international institutions is capable of responding effectively to transnational problems
such as climate change, terrorism, global financial instability, and humanitarian crises.
Which of the alternative models of global governance (neoliberal institutionalism, new
medievalism, transgovernmentalism, and “good enough global governance”) described
in the readings by Robert Gilpin (“Governing the Global Economy”) and Stewart
Patrick (“The Unruled World: The Case for Good Enough Global Governance”) is
most likely to form the basis for global governance in the 21st century, and why?
Compare the different models, and explain why the approach you choose is more
realistic than the others.
Writing advice
Write as simply and concisely as possible. Write in the active voice (“Liberal theory
assumes…”) not the passive voice (“It is assumed by liberal theory that…”). Where
possible, use simpler words rather than complex words. And use the fewest words
necessary to express your ideas.
Formatting
• Properly acknowledge all uses of ideas or facts that are not common knowledge
taken from sources (including the Gilpin and Patrick readings, other assigned
readings, or any other source). If you use exact language from a source, put it
inside quotation marks AND cite it with an “(Author Year, page)” parenthetical
reference.
• Use Chicago author-date format for references. The list of references does not
count toward the page limit. For guidelines on Chicago author-date format, see
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html. CLICK ON THE
“AUTHOR-DATE” TAB. If you see a heading that says “Notes and bibliography:
sample citations,” you are looking at the wrong instructions. Cite sources in text
as, for example (Patrick 2014, 60), and provide the full bibliographic information