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Short course description
This course compares climate governance development and challenges in Europe and East Asia. The course firstly explores academic concepts of regionalism and governance to suggest a systematic view to compare the two different regions. Starting with the EU’s case how its suis generis political system influences the regional climate policies and practices, the course will look into advantages and challenges with the regional institutions like EU dealing with climate issues both at regional- and global level. As for the case of East Asia, the course will introduce the regional cooperation and governance without strong regional organizations, where the network of local governments is found as proactive and impactful in taking climate action. By putting the two regional cases together, the course attempts to investigate different regional manifestations of climate governance. Moreover, it intends to stimulate students’ interests to grasp various types of governance/forms of cooperation in different regions, which will eventually help to understand the EU’s position and its confronted problems to play a climate leader at global level. |
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- Börzel, T., Risse, T. (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism. Oxford University Press.
- Brennan, L., Murray, P. (ed). (2015). Drivers of Integration and Regionalism in Europe and Asia: Comparative perspectives. Routledge.
- Oberthür, S., Kelly, C. R. (2008). EU Leadership in International Climate Policy: Achievements and Challenges, The International Spectator, 43:3, 35-50.
- Schreurs, M. (2010). Multi-level Governance and Global Climate Change in East Asia. Asian Economic Policy Review. 5(1): 88-105. |
