The growing cross-border problems and interactions that challenge national frontiers have contributed to the rise of new governance mechanisms at the global, regional, and sub-national levels. This rise has been accompanied by an increasing emphasis on human rights as a set of norms that bind and capture our common humanity.
The Governance and Rights concentration focuses on the principles, institutions, actors, and discourses that animate these new governance mechanisms. It prepares students to critically engage with these evolving trends in how societies are organized and (re)ordered alongside new norms, within new structures and networks. Faculty place special emphasis on the nature of power and agency and the legitimacy of governance structures at the local, national, and transnational levels.
Governance and Rights courses equip students with practical and analytical skills relating to topics including human rights, displacement and migration, international organizations, and statebuilding. Students in the concentration are also eligible to take courses at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law on topics such as international law, human rights, and public health law. Students have access to a broad range of opportunities for research and practice, both through the array of organizations in New York City working on governance and rights issues and through International Field Program sites around the world.
Foundation Course
Global Governance – Peter Hoffman and Everita Silina
Eligible Electives
Explore the Course Catalog for current course descriptions and faculty.
Advocacy and Global Governance
Borders, Migrants, States
Business and Human Rights
Children, Rights, Poverty, Equality
Conflict, Morality, and Norms
Contemporary Conflicts and Global Responses
Cuba: Critical Concepts
Displacement, Asylum, Migration
Forced Migration: Concepts and Policy
Gender and Development
Global Health, Poverty, and Development
Global Soccer, Global Politics
Global Supply Chains and Corporate Environmental Sustainability
Global Youth Media
Globalized Labor
Human Rights and Media
Human Rights and Poverty: Case Studies
Human Rights Research and Advocacy
Humanitarian Intervention
Indigenous Politics and Environmental Justice
Media and Politics of Propaganda
Migration of Memory
Non-Western Approaches to World Politics
Politics of Expertise
Politics of Humanitarianism
Politics of Infrastructure
Postcolonial and Feminist Theories in International Relations
Private-Public Partnerships for Development
Program Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation for Peacebuilding
Surveillance, Privacy, and Human Rights
Social Policy and Inclusive Development
Statebuilding and Peacebuilding
Sustainable Peace and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Technopolitics
The United Nations and World Order
Trade Agreements and Health Equity
Cardozo Courses
Administrative Law
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Children and the Law
Comparative Law
Constitution and U.S. Foreign Affairs
Employment Law
European Legal Systems and the Holocaust
Disability Law and Its Implications
Immigration Law
Internal Dispute Resolution
International Human Rights
International Law
Jurisprudence
Labor Law
Public Health Law and Policy
Rights of Prisoners and Detainees