The course will explore a number of the key dimensions in the evolution of global governance. Over the last decade, every aspect of global governance has become subjected to review and debate: security and the role of peacekeeping and peacebuilding, the future of humanitarianism, a new climate change architecture, human rights, a new sustainable development agenda, and the need for a new multilateralism. It has been over half a century since so many core issues at the heart of effective global governance have been on the drawing board simultaneously. 
Instructor: Bruce Jenks
Time/location: Monday, 11:00am - 12:50pm, IAB 501A

Contemporary Diplomacy: INAF U4545 (3 credits)
This course examines the process of diplomacy; the patterns, purposes, and people that shape the contemporary interactions of states. In the first, entitled "Making War and Peace"- we look at a series of the most important episodes in twentieth-century diplomacy. In the second section under the heading "Professional Norms and Pathologies"-we consider some of the problems faced by diplomats in any period. The concluding section of the course called "The Newest 'New Diplomacy'"- takes up distinctive aspects of diplomacy in the current period: how the United States and other governments have dealt with the proliferation of multilateral organizations (and of weapons of mass destruction), with ethnic warfare and genocide, with the pressures and opportunities of globalization, and with the war on terrorism that began after September 11, 2001.
Instructor: Stephen R Sestanovich
Time/location: Thursday, 9:00am - 10:50am, IAB 409

Global Governance: Climate Change & Migration: INAF U6343 (3 credits)
Whereas global governance regimes cover a wide range of issues, this course deliberately focuses on two sample areas: climate change and migration/refugees. While the linkages between climate change and mobility will be discussed, the course focuses on these two issues separately. This allows for in-depth discussions on different governance issues, levels, and aspects within these areas of work. The discussions will shed light on different institutions, actors and actor constellations, as well as the effectiveness, representativeness, and coherence of multilateral regimes.
Instructor: Daniel Naujoks
Time/location: Wednesday, 2:10pm - 4:00pm, IAB 409

Global Economic Governance: INAF U6359 (3 credits)
This course aims at familiarizing students with major issues surrounding global economic governance, exploring both the issues that are subject to current debates (or have been in the past) as well as the institutional questions involved. “Global economic governance” is understood in a broad sense, and thus includes not only global but also regional frameworks, and both formal institutions as well as informal groupings of countries (such as the G7/8 and the G20) and rules of international transactions that have been left to bilateral agreements or are under the domain of national sovereignty but do have global implications. 
Instructor: Jose Ocampo
Time/location: Monday, 11:00am - 12:50pm, IAB 407

LGBT Rights Internationally: Contemporary Issues and Fundamental Principles:
INAF U6376 (1.5 credits)
Spring 2020 Course Dates: Jan. 21 - Mar. 3
This course will explore how LGBT rights impact mainstream debates, such as bilateral relations and good governance, while also teaching students to understand the particular challenges of fulfilling LGBT rights, such as access to legal recognition for LGBT partnerships and transgender identities.  This course offers students an in-depth discussion about the challenges and opportunities of working on LGBT rights at the international level, surveys debates within the field, and equips students to competently address LGBT rights as they manifest across a range of academic and professional interests. Breaking news and contemporary debates will be integrated into the course work.
Instructor: Jessica Stern
Time/location: Tuesday, 9:00am - 10:50am, IAB 801

Risk Management for UN Crisis & Conflict Responses: INAF U6762 (3 credits)
The objective of the class is to introduce students to the practice of risk management as a tool for enabling delivery across the range of UN responses in crisis and conflict contexts, including in the areas of peace and security, human rights, development and humanitarian support. The class emphasizes skills development and their application to concrete UN crisis responses.
Instructor: Marc Jacquand
Time/location: Wednesday, 6:10pm - 8:00pm, IAB 801

Negotiation & Conflict Resolution: PUAF U6801 (3 credits)
There are two purposes to this course: 1. to develop your ability to negotiate in a purposeful, principled and effective way; and 2. to teach you how to build consensus and broker wise agreements with others. Negotiation is a social skill, and like all social skills you have to practice it if you want to get better at it. To give you the chance to practice, we'll do a number of simulated negotiations in and out of class. We'll also use lectures, case studies, exercises, games, videos, and demonstrations to help you develop your understanding. As we advance in the course, our focus will shift from simple one-on-one negotiations to more complex ones involving many parties, agents, coalitions, and organizations.
Instructor: Seth Freeman
Time/location: Thursday,11:00am - 12:50pm, IAB 324

Writing on Policy: INAF U6897 (3 credits)
“Writing About Policy” gives you the journalistic tools to intervene in public policy debates. You will learn to translate the expertise you’re gaining – as policy professionals and as SIPA students –for the rest of the public, whether in op eds, review essays or blogs. You will also report and write feature stories. This class is a workshop, as well as a seminar, and there will be writing assignments due almost every week.  Students will publish their work in SIPA's student publications, as well as in media outlets reaching far beyond the IAB.
Instructor: Liza Featherstone
Time/location: Tuesday, 11:00am - 12:50pm, IAB 501A

European Security: INAF U8565 (3 credits)
This course surveys historical and current case studies in the context of theoretical debates about the sources of security and insecurity and war and peace. The aim is to establish a foundation for analyzing the prospects for a secure order in Europe in the first part of the 21st century. The emphasis is on problems concerning strategic calculations, military strategy and war as well as political processes and institutional dynamics. Separate sections in the second half of the term are devoted to selected current policy challenges, such as transatlantic rifts, identity issues and ethnonational conflict, transitions in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, NATO and EU enlargements, and European foreign and defense initiatives.
Instructor: Cynthia Roberts
Time/location: Wednesday, 4:10pm - 6:00pm, IAB 402

Managing Humanitarian Emergencies: INAF U8690 (3 credits)
This course focuses on the management of humanitarian operations and intends to provide students with an opportunity to explore critical and current issues in humanitarian aid. It gives students the chance to understand current debates in the humanitarian system; to develop a framework of analysis that they can use in head-quarters and the field; and to acquire a toolkit to help them succeed as aid workers. The course is focused on humanitarian operations from the perspective of an aid worker in the field. The course would therefore be of interest to those wishing to work with an aid agency, directly or indirectly with populations affected by disasters or those who just want to better understand the humanitarian aid system and the opportunities and challenges that humanitarian leaders face.
Instructor: Susannah Friedman
Time/location: Thursday, 11:00am - 12:50pm, IAB 801

Practicum on Education in Emergencies: INAF U8882 (1.5 credits)
Spring 2020 Course Dates: Jan. 22 - Mar. 4
This seven-week practicum is designed to give students from a variety of disciplines a background in education in emergency contexts, from preparedness to response and recovery. Class sessions will explore the multiple roles of education, including critical linkages to sectors like health and protection, in each of these phases; introduce students to the major education actors within the international humanitarian architecture;and prepare students to utilize best practices and minimum standards for education programming and policy-making. 
Instructor: Allison Anderson
Time/location: Wednesday, 11:00am - 12:50pm, IAB 402B

Energy Transition in Europe: INAF U6425 (1.5 credits)
Spring 2020 Course Dates: Jan 27 - Mar. 9
The course is intended to provide students with an understanding of the issues and dynamics underlying the European Union’s (EU’s) efforts to lead the worldwide transition to low- and zero-greenhouse gas energy systems. The energy transition is unfolding around the globe with features that reflect each country’s distinct energy endowments, economic strengths and weaknesses, political priorities, and governance systems. In this course, we will examine the drivers of the European debate over the energy transition, from public pressure to protect the environment and avoid climate change, to technology innovations that are impacting all aspects of energy use – in power generation, industrial energy systems, buildings and transportation.
Instructor: Jonathan Elkind
Time/location: Monday, 11:00AM - 12:50AM, IAB 801

The Economics of European Integration: REGN U6300 (3 credits)
A policy-oriented but theory-based course on the current state of economic integration in the European Union.  Topics include: Brexit scenarios, design failures of the Eurozone and steps to a Banking Union; monetary policy of the ECB; Greek and other peripheral bailouts; macroeconomic performance, unemployment and EU labor markets; cohesion and the refugee crisis; fiscal policies and fiscal rules; tax and competition policy for high tech firms in a digital economy; EU trade policy and the future of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Instructor: Seamus O'Cleireacain
Time/location: Thursday, 4:10pm - 6:00pm, IAB 402

Politics in the European Union: REGN U6315 (3 credits)
This course offers an overview of recent and contemporary politics in the European Union. On the basis of the assumption that the latter is inextricably determined by both supra-national and infra-national dynamics, it examines the European Union as a whole, as well as the politics of certain key member states. Classes are based on readings from foundational texts in the recent comparative politics and history literature on the European Union and its member states. 
Instructor: Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Time/location: Thursday, 2:10pm - 4:00pm, IAB 402B