Global Governance: A broad range of issues affect the international community: armed conflict, famine, poverty, economic instability, and climate change. However, who should be involved? Whose responsibility is it to address these issues? Global Governance is the collection of governance-related activities, rules, and mechanisms established to address these issues. The presentation will examine the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs at various levels in the world today.
Becoming a Global Citizen is a program series dedicated to educating the public and encouraging discussions about foreign affairs. These programs will be on the first Sunday of every month at 2:00 p.m. in the Meeting Room at the Sharon Forks Library. Each program will consist of 45 minutes of presentation by a University of North Georgia professor followed by 45 minutes of a roundtable discussion on the topic of the month.
This program is intended for adults and high schoolers.
This month's topic is Global Governance, presented by Dr. Christian Harris, a professor of Political Science who joined the University of North Georgia in 2005. Previously, Dr. Harris worked in universities in Delaware, New Jersey, Texas, and the province of Ontario in Canada. He also worked in the non-profit and corporate private sectors. Dr. Harris earned a PhD in Political Science from the University of Delaware in 2001. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses, including International Political Economy, Global Governance, Politics of Development, and Latin American Politics. Dr. Harris serves as the program coordinator for the Master of Arts in International Affairs program and the Master Faculty Advisor of the Department of Political Science & International Affairs at UNG. An accomplished academic, teacher, and mentor, he received UNG’s highest award - the Distinguished Teaching Award - in 2018. In addition, he received the NGCSU Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009, Outstanding Academic Advisor awards in 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2016, and SGA Outstanding Faculty Member in 2008. In 2019, the Georgia Political Science Association awarded him its McBrayer Award for best paper presented at its annual conference. His research interests include the role of U.S. universities in public diplomacy, the comparative development of Settler Societies, and the Political Economy of Latin America in the Twentieth Century.
June 4: The European Union: A cooperative Enterprise from Enemies to Partners
July 2: EU Investment in Human Capital & the Evolution of European Identity
August 8: Chinese Foreign Policy: Playing the Role of Strategic Competitor to the US
September 10: Russian Foreign Policy: Russia's Changing Relationship with the World
October 8: Soft Power in Latin America
November 5: State Fragility
December 3: Fallout from the Conflict in Ukraine
This program series is in partnership with the University of North Georgia Department of Political Science and International Affairs.
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