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Populism and Collaborative Leadership for a Multi-Centred World (STG-MA-ECM-PCL)

STG-MA-ECM-PCL

Description

This course is composed of two parts.

First, this course will offer students the opportunity to evaluate and develop priorities for change in 21st-century transatlantic politics. Topics include:

-    Tracing how far-right populist politics has evolved in the new millennium
-    Understanding what drives the evolution of support for far-right politics
-    Assessing how effective—and when and where—far-right movements have been at imposing their agenda on foreign policy 
-    Estimating and explaining the (surprisingly limited) impact of right-wing populism on transatlantic and global cooperation in the era of Trump, Brexit and Orbán
-    Identifying possible areas of conflict in a hypothetical second Trump Administration
-    Analyzing the optimal European strategy in response to those conflicts
-    Honing the ability to engage in basic modern strategic communication in foreign-policy settings

Second, shifting from an antagonistic to a cooperative prism, the course will teach students to “see the world in stereo,” as both a system of nation-states and as a web of networks involving state and global actors. It will provide ways of thinking about globalization and global problem solving that will create much more room for business, civic groups, universities, faith organizations, and other stakeholders and resource mobilizers in global governance. Visualizing the much more horizontal world of networks will also open up many more opportunities for individual leadership in collaboration with others. A second major theme of the second part of the course will be to explore what leading collaboratively looks like and how it differs from more vertical or hierarchical approaches to leadership. We will explore how to lead from both the center and the edge in any group and how to share power effectively. We will also examine the specific attributes of network leadership. 
 

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