GOV 502 – Governance and Institutions (3 credits)

This course is intended to examine key governance structures and institutions in a comparative perspective.  Students shall consider the viewpoints of global governance on Earth to facilitate cooperation, governance of space settlements, and the nature and extent of relations of the governance of Earth via outer-space and vice-versa.  Students will explore emerging challenges to existing frameworks, propose models to address the relative roles of public and private systems and the procedural issues in a variety of policy areas such as trade, security, health care, environment, infrastructure, and transportation.

Instructor: Prof. Tom Olson