44 Global Studies
Advanced Energy Policy
Brandi Robinson (Pennsylvania State University)
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Energy policy is typically evolutionary as opposed to revolutionary. We can look to historical policies to understand how we’ve inherited the policies governing our energy use today. But looking backward only tells us part of the story. In the face of climate change, we need to look ahead and instead envision a more revolutionary change to our energy systems and the policies that govern them. This class takes you on that journey to energy policies past, present, and future. We look at the political realities of addressing climate change at various scales of governance and work together to craft our own ideal scenarios of what a responsible energy future will be.
Formats: Online, HTML
Suggested for: GLST 343
Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics
Marc Woons & Sebastian Weier
2017
Licence: CC BY-NC
Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics combines social science and cultural studies approaches to IR, showing why contemporary Border Studies needs to be trans-disciplinary if it is to avoid reproducing the epistemological and political order that has led to contemporary global crises like the rise of ISIS, global migration, or increasing contestations of the State form as such. The volume offers a critical epistemology of global politics and proposes an enriched vision of borders, both analytically and politically, that not only seeks to understand but also to reshape and expand the meanings and consequences of IR.
Formats: PDF
Suggested for: GLST 230
Critical Perspectives on Migration in the Twenty-First Century
Marianna Karakoulaki, Laura Southgate and Jakob Steiner
2018
Licence: CC BY-NC
This migration text has been positively-reviewed and has been successfully adopted by other faculty. It covers concepts in 21st-century migration, from human rights to the 2015 migrant crisis.
Formats: PDF
Human Security in World Affairs: Problems and Opportunities (2nd Edition)
Edited by Alexander Lautensach and Sabina Lautensach (University of Northern British Columbia)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This first and only university textbook of human security, intended as an introductory text from senior undergraduate level up, and includes chapters by 24 authors that encompass the full spectrum of disciplines contributing to the human security field. It is based on the four-pillar model of socio-political security, economic security, environmental security and health security. The chapters include learning outcomes, extension activities, and suggested readings; a comprehensive glossary lists key terms used throughout the book. This textbook can be used in courses on international studies and relations, political studies, history, human geography, anthropology and human ecology, futures studies, applied social studies, public health, and more.
Formats: Online, EPUB, MOBI, and PDF
Keys to Understanding the Middle East: Diverse Perspectives
Alam Payind and Melinda McClimans (The Ohio State University)
Licence: CC BY-SA
This text covers introductory concepts in Middle-Eastern politics, from religious identity to stateless nations.
Formats: Online, PDF
Migration and the Ukraine Crisis: A Two Country Perspective
Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska and Greta Uehling
2019
Licence: CC BY-NC
This migration text has been successfully adopted by other faculty. It focuses on the 2014 Ukraine crisis and the ongoing war for Crimea, covering introductory concepts in migration studies, from geopolitical fault-lines to labour migration.
Formats: PDF
Navigating the Space Between Us
Robert Gould (Portland State University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Navigating the Space Between Us – Finding Connection, while Embracing the Continua of Difference: A Dilemma Driven Conflict Analysis was developed as an upper division undergraduate textbook for a conflict resolution CR 310U Values and Ethics course (required for a PSU bachelor’s degree in CR) and adaptable to a conflict resolution CR 513 graduate course (required for PSU master’s degree in CR). Its intended audience are students from Portland State University enrolled in a ten week, quarter system, though it is adaptable for a semester length course. The chapters are combined with other readings on conflict resolution values and ethics. This open access textbook may be used to supplement resources for other courses that address aspects of conflict resolution values and ethics.
Formats: Online, PDF and EPUB
The North American Arctic
Dwayne Menezes and Heather Nicol
2019
Licence: CC BY-NC
The North American Arctic addresses the emergence of a new security relationship within the North American North. It focuses on current and emerging security issues that confront the North American Arctic and that shape relationships between and with neighbouring states (Alaska in the US; Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada; Greenland and Russia).
Formats: PDF
Putting Knowledge to Work: Collaborating, Influencing and Learning for International Development
Edited by Luc J.A. Mougeot (International Development Research Centre)
2017
Licence: CC BY
Dramatic changes in the ecosystem for international development are now pressing civil society organizations (CSOs) to invest more in knowledge to remain significant players. While the need for creative thinking and experimentation is greater than ever, there is still very little research published on challenges experienced and solutions found by CSOs as they adjust to the global changes underway.
Funders and beneficiaries are pressing CSOs to be more professional and efficient, and more strategic and impactful, but the key role that knowledge plays in the efforts of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) remains often underrated, even by NGOs themselves. Putting Knowledge to Work explores how the brains of such organizations actually function to deliver outcomes and impacts.
Upstream from end results themselves, the book examines how CSOs access, generate, apply, and grow their intelligence, knowledge, and know-how to protect children, improve public security, reduce ethnic discrimination, grow local value chains, expand water resources, and generally make our societies more inclusive and just. How do CSOs obtain the knowledge they need to accomplish these tasks? How do they cooperate with other organizations to produce workable knowledge? And how do they learn from practice to increase their impact?
This book should be read by students and researchers in the field of international development, and those who work at CSOs, in government, and for philanthropic organizations.
Format: PDF
Suggested for: GLST 395
The R2P: Challenges and Opportunities in Light of the Libyan Intervention
Alex Stark
2019
Licence: CC BY-NC
This edited volume covers the Liberian intervention, from the revolution to peacemaking.
Formats: PDF
Reprogramming the World: Cyberspace and the Geography of Global Order
P.J. Blount
2019
Licence: CC BY-NC
The central claim of this book is that digital technologies are rewiring the way that society understands and thinks about global order as Cyberspace changes the content of international borders. While international governance has never been a static process, the reprogramming being described herein is extraordinarily different from previous shifts in international governance. It is not the result of a war or of a contingent of sovereigns negotiating rules; it is a technologically driven process that redistributes power within that system and challenges the core concept of territorial sovereignty.
Formats: PDF
Rethinking Canadian Aid, Second Edition
Edited by Stephen Brown (University of Ottawa), Molly den Heyer (St. Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie University), and David R. Black (Dalhousie University)
2016
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This revised edition not only analyzes Canada’s past development assistance, it also highlights important new opportunities in the context of the recent change in government. Designed to reach a variety of audiences, contributions by twenty scholars and experts in the field offer an incisive examination of Canada’s record and initiatives in Canadian foreign aid, including its relatively recent emphasis on maternal and child health and on the extractive sector, as well as the longer-term engagement with state fragility. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Canada’s changing role in the world. (Description from UO Press)
Format: PDF