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Essay Instructions: Write an essay defining "global governance" and assessing whether it is a new conception or ontology, a new theory, and an innovative approach to the study of international organizations. Or is it simply "old wine poured into new bottles."
Make sure to include references from the uploaded readings and provide examples and illustrations to support your assessment. The four uploaded readings don't count as sources, the writer is responsible for finding two other sources.
The paper must begin with a Thesis Statement (1-2 paragraphs) stating (1) your topic and (2) how you intend to structure your discussion. Stay on track and don't wander. Provide evidence and argument, and avoid vague opinion. Summarize and provide your analysis- that is, explain what is significant about what you have written. When writing, and especially when editing the paper, keep checking to ensure that your arguments answer your stated research question and that your evidence supports your arguments. Clarity and internal consistency are the most important characteristics are important here. It is important to make sure that you aren’t trying to do too much. In general, depth is better than breadth because it allows you to demonstrate much more detailed and thorough knowledge of your topic. Use headings and subheadings where appropriate. Please provide sub-headings in your essay.

Spelling, word usage, spelling punctuation and sentence structure will be assessed. The paper needs to be organized with a clear structure, logical flow, and be coherent. Avoid personal pronouns and long quotations. The paper must have a specific argument, and not be general.
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Essay Instructions: Please focus on the resources i will provide to you as main resources and the following questions:

New Technologies, new publics, public spheres? Democracy Fulfilled? The citizen re-empowered?

Professionalization, Refeudalization?
Read political communication encyclopedia article on Americanisation/Professionalization; Selections from Alpha Dogs: The Americans Who Made Political Spin Into a Global Business (2008). Rethinking PR and Democracy, Maloney excerpts BB; Recommended: excerpts from “A Century of Spin” BB
Apply readings to American presidential election. What was the role of the Internet (blogs, social media, campaign finance, setting news agendas)? What kind of trends of professionalization do you see? Revisit Agenda-setting, framing, professionalization, Tabloidization. Give examples, analyze using course concepts.

Harsin “Wikileaks Lessons for Media Theory and Politics” Flow TV (just google it); Manuel Castells, “Communication Power and Counter-Power in the Network Society” http://www.itu.dk/stud/speciale/specialeprojekt/Litteratur/Castells_2007%20-%20Communication%20power%20in%20the%20network%20society.pdf (or google it); Two short online articles on Kony2012Abigail Collazo, “Five Reasons why the Kony 2012 Video is Going Viral.” Social Media Today, March 11, 2012. Available at ttp://socialmediatoday.com/colindelany/467055/five-reasons-kony-2012-video-going-viral; “Lessons from Kony 2012: Changing the world one mouse click at a time” By Elizabeth Stuart , Deseret News (google it!)
Recommended: Harsin and Russell: “Machinima and the French Democracy: Public Address and the Limits of Glocal Protest”

Transnational or Global Publics and Public Spheres?
Nov. 21 ” Civil Society and Public Relations" Mohan J. Dutta-Bergman BB; M. Castells, “The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance.” Recommended: “Contesting Global Capital, New Media, Solidarity”. Consider: What is the relationship of civil society to democracy today? What is the role of NGOs? And how do they in some ways defeat the realization of public spheres? But what are, on the other hand, opportunities for new publics/public spheres and the interventions in elite political processes? These questions also draw on last week's readings (Wikileaks, Kony 2012).
•&????;Recommended “Internet and Arab Political Identity”+ “Part I addresses NGOs' experience in drawing on advertising agencies' expertise in awareness-raising campaigns Part II summarizes experience with awareness campaigns aimed at chainging attitude and behavior in poor/largely illiterate communities” BB. 6pages
•&????;Recommended: "Internet and Public Spheres in Developing Countries" BB

Professionalized politics (and citizenship) meets Convergence Culture
Nov. 28 Stephen Coleman , DE Morrison , S. Yates, “The mediation of political disconnection.” In: Brants K, Voltmer K (eds) Political Communication in Postmodern Democracy: Challenging the Primacy of Politics. (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011), 215??"230. Harsin, “The Rumor Bomb; Harsin “That’s Democratainment: Obama Rumor Bombs”;

The New Frontier: Neuroscience, Affect, Attention Economy and Public Life
Dec 5 From Houghton’s Political Psychology, instead read Tiziana TErranova, "Attention Economy and the Brain"; Harsin "Managed Democracy 3.0" ONLY pp 1-7, 27-33; AND "joys of online activism" http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/jan/18/online-activism-internet-campaign-mobilise
. Think about the implications for public life. What would Habermas say?

Dec. 12 Conclusion: recap, discussion of the course, Occupy Movement, Pirate Party, Alternative Globaliztion Movement, etc.
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Essay Instructions: According to Anne-Marie Slaughter, "world government is both infeasible and undesirable." Do you agree with this assessment? Answer with reference to the readings. Make sure to discuss the difference world government and global governance, its weaknesses, and how these concepts relate to world order, globalization, international integration and the rise of new actors.


Essay should make efficient use of the readings
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1. How can international organizations assist countries in Northern Africa where authoritarian regimes are just collapsing and the population is looking to establish some form of democry? Which organizations can plan a role? What measures can they offer to support democry building? the essay is based on case study..Egypt and Libya..


REFERENCES
African Union
http://www.au.int/en/
North, D. D. Acemoglu, F. Fukuyama and Dani Rodrik, 2008 ?Governance, growth and development decision making?, Washington: The World Bank, at :
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTPUBLICSECTORANDGOVERNANCE/Resources/governanceandgrowth.pdf

Olivier de Schutter, Responsibly destroying the world?s peasantry, Project Syndicate, at: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/deschutter1/English
www.au.co

Nilima Gulrajani 2010 Challenging Global Accountability: The Intersection of Contrts and Culture in the World Bank GEG Working Paper 2010/56 at:
http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/wp-content/uploads/Gulrajani-Challenging-Global-Accountability.pdf
Ngaire Woods The G20 Leaders and Global Governance GEG Working paper 2010/59 at:

http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/wp-content/uploads/Woods-2010-The-G20-and-Global-Governance.doc.pdf
3. United Nations reform:
http://www.un.org/reform/

http://www.globalpolicy.org/reform/index.htm




The Global Economic Governance programme at Oxford:
http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/

The Department of International Development at the London School of Economics, for example here;
http://www2.lse..uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/n.
Blog:
http://blogs.worldbank.org/governance/
External research at the IMF:
http://www.imf.org/external/research/index.aspx

Topic
1. How international organizations assist countries Northern Africa authoritarian regimes collapsing population establish form democry? Which organizations plan a role? What measures offer support democry building? REFERENCES African Union http://www