CRP 6720 - International Institutions

Fall. 3 credits.

Staff.

Focuses on the growth and transformation of international institutions since World War II. The first part includes a discussion of the Bretton Woods institutions and of the U.N. system up to the early 1970s, and how these function and have evolved over time. The second part examines some of the crises and tensions within the international system since the 1980s and how these have affected institutional change and current debates on reform and global governance.