COGGS - The Colloquium on Global Governance and Society

The Department's Colloquium on Global Governance and Society (COGGS) is a central element of our graduate program's focus on politics and global governance. COGGS is an annual speaker series that brings national and international scholars to speak on issues of global governance theory and practice. It is held each spring in conjunction with a senior graduate seminar and writing workshop for our advanced graduate students.

2012 COGGS: 'Tensions in Global Governance'

• Friday, February 24th - Ruth Bevan, Yeshiva University
  “Globalism: Where does the West belong in a Post-Western World?”
• Friday, March 2nd - Kwame Akonor, Seton Hall University
  “Reflections on Africa’s Responsibility to Protect”
• Friday, March 16th - John Mathiason, Syracuse University
  “Managing Climate Change: the Biggest Challenge to Global Governance Ever”
• Friday, March 23rd - Veena Thadani, New York University
  “National Security/Human Security: the Maoist Insurgency in India”
• Friday April 20th - Ted Madger, New York University
  “Regardless of Frontiers: the Principles of World Communication”

2011 COGGS: 'Borders and Global Governance'

• Charli Carpenter, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  "Explaining the Advocacy Agenda: Insights from the Human Security Network"
• Gallya Lahav, SUNY at Stony Brook
  "(Re)framing the Migration Debate: The Rise of Non-State Actors and the Decline of Civil Liberties in a New Security World"
• Robert C. Smith, Baruch College
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• Lincoln Mitchell, Columbia University
  "Stalin's Strangest Legacy: Borders and Politics in the former Soviet Union"
• Marie-Joseé Massicotte, University of Ottawa
  "Alternative Forms of Governance from Below: Peasant Movements and Food Sovereignty in Brazil and Mexico"

2010 COGGS: 'Transnational Identities: Race, Class and Gender in GG'

• Vera Leigh Fennell, Lehigh University, Globalization and Social Change Initiative
  "Reading Black through Red: Politics, Propaganda, and Afro-Sino Solidarity"
• Darel E. Paul, Williams College
  "The Global Financial Crisis and the Crisis of the Financialized State"
• Ethel Brooks, Rutgers University
  "Missing Pakistanis: The Muslim Everyday after September 11?"
• Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania
  "The Midnight Ride of Kwame Nkrumah and Other Fables of Bandung"
• Pascha Bueno-Hansen, University of Delaware
  "Queer/Lesbiana Dialogues among Feminist Movements in the Americas"

2009 COGGS: 'The Global Governance of War and Peace'

• Michael Doyle, Columbia University
  "A Global Constitution? The Struggle over the UN Charter"
• Barak Mendelsohn, Haverford College
  "Bolstering the State: A Different Perspective on the War on the Jihadi Movement"
• Thania Sanchez, Columbia University and University of Iowa
  "Banning Mines, Building Coalitions: The Domestic Politics of Treaty Compliance"
• Wesley Widmaier, Saint Joseph's University
  "Emotion, Ethics and the Environment: Religion, Pragmatism and Interests in Environmental Cooperation"
• Helen Kinsella, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  "Gender and the Laws of War"
• Janice Bially Mattern, Lehigh University
  "The Emotional Politics of Transnational Crime"

2008 COGGS: 'Global Governance and Governmentality'

• Ann Towns, University of Delaware
  "The Status of Women as a Standard of Civilization"
• Claire Rasmussen, University of Delaware
  "Animal Husbandry: Political Community and the Governance of our Beastly Desires"
• Matthew Weinert, University of Delaware
  "From State Security to Human Security"
• William Walters, Carleton University
  "Antipolicy"
• Philip Cerny, Rutgers University
  "The Governmentality of World Politics"
• Raymond Duvall, University of Minnesota
  "Governing Corruption"

2007 COGGS: 'America and the World'

• Richard Wike, Pew Global Attitudes Project
  "America's Image Abroad: Global Public Opinion and the Sources of Anti-Americanism"
• Renee de Nevers, Syracuse University
  "America Held Captive: Guantanamo, the Geneva Conventions, and New Wars"
• Thomas Wright, Georgetown University
  "The American Approach to Great Power Balancing and Threat Containment"
• Stacie Pettyjohn, University of Virginia and the Brookings Institute
  "Talking with Terrorists: American Policy toward the PLO and Hamas"
• Andrew Rudavelige, Dickinson College
  "The 'New Imperial Presidency': At Home and Abroad"

2006 COGGS: 'Non-State Actors, Civil Society and Global Governance'

• Leonard Schoppa, University of Virginia
  "Exit, Voice, and Reform of Male Breadwinner Social Structures: Low-Fertility Equilibrium in Japan and Italy"
• Daniel Chong, American University
  "Reconstructing Rights: What Emerging NGO Practice on Subsistence Rights Reveals about Human Rights Politics"
• Ken Cousins, University of Maryland
  "The Forest Stewardship Council: Non-State Certification Systems as a Form of Governance"
• Deborah Avant, George Washington University
  "The Market for Force"
• Hans Peter Schmitz, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University
  "Accountability and Non-State Actors in Africa"

2005 COGGS: 'Issues in a Globalized World'

• Steven Kobrin, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
  "Multinational Enterprise, Public Authority, and Public Responsibility: The Case of Talisman Energy and Human Rights in Sudan"
• Jonathan Jay Monten, Georgetown University
  "Power and Nationalism in US Democracy Promotion"
• John Owen, University of Virginia
  "When do Ideologies Produce Alliances?"
• Bruce Cronin, City College of New York
  "International Consensus and the Changing Legal Authority of the UN Security Council"

2004 COGGS: 'Gender and Global Governance'

• Jutta Joachim, Institute for Political Science, Hannover University, Germany
  "Collective Action in a Multi-Level Setting: Comparing the Role of Women's Rights NGOs in the United Nations and European Union"
• Cynthia Enloe, Department of Peace Studies, Clark University
  "Militarism and Empire: Some Feminist Clues"
• Rhacel Parrenas, Asian American Studies Program, University of California, Davis
  "Questions on Transnational Feminism: Neoliberal States, Care, and Women's Migration"
• Emek Ucarer, International Relations Program, Bucknell University
  "Trafficking in Women and the European Union: Shifting Frames, Shifting Outcomes?"

2003 COGGS: 'The Environment and Global Governance'

• Michael T. Rock, Hood College
  "Export-led Industrial Growth and the Environment in East Asia: Poisoned Prosperity in Clean Shared Growth"
• Paul Wapner, School of International Service, American University
  "NGOs and Global Governance: Whither Democracy?"
• Maria Ivanova, Global Environmental Governance Project, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
  "Global Environmental Governance: The Post-Johannesburg Agenda"
• Janet Macharia, United Nations Development Programme
  "Gender Issues in Environmental Management: Examples from Southern Africa"