OSHER 311 - Global Governance: Past and Future

Despite appearances in 2018, there has been a steady accretion of worldwide norms for at least 3500 years, stemming from attempts to ameliorate the effects of tribalism. We will look at norms from ancient times to an accelerating pace of globalism in the last half of the 20th Century to the current spasm of nationalistic/autocratic movements. Many factors argue in favor of believing that this hiccup will lead to an even stronger set of global governing institutions, about which we can speculate.