300057 Private Authorities (S) (SoSe 2008)

The seminar's ambition is to present, discuss and reflect upon problems of building order in global contexts of decision making through substituting public authority with private authority. This aspect is part of the more encompassing problem of global governance, which in itself is part of the more encompassing problem of the formation of a world society. The seminar will proceed in three steps:

• International regimes as processes of generating global order.
• New balances of state authority and private authority.
• Processes and architectures of private authority and hybrid (public-private) decision making.

Requirements for participation, required level

This seminar will be held in English.
A passion for arguing, thinking and learning. Basic knowledge in theories of society and theories of the political system.

Bibliography

Cutler, Claire, Virginia Haufler und Tony Porter (Hg.). 1999. Private authority and international affairs. New York: State Univerity of New York Press.

Strange, Susan. 1996. The retreat of the state. The diffusion of power in the world economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Willke, Helmut. 2007. Smart governance. Governing the global knowledge economy. Frankfurt und New York: Campus.