TRN151Y1: Global Governance

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Much attention is paid to when our public policies change. Very rarely do we critically analyze the quality of our policies and the dialogic process by which we improve our policy responses to shared global challenges. This seminar course considers when we are successful at improving the quality of our policies, enabling us to better address some of our most serious and complex global problems. We begin by establishing what we mean by global governance and provide you with the analytical tools to study global policy learning. We then discuss how international institutions and the roles of states and private not-for profit and for-profit sector agencies are shifting. We examine the successes and failures of these policy relationships across a wide range of policy case studies. We conclude by drawing out the implications of these developments for creating secure, vibrant, healthy and peaceful societies.

Breadth Requirement: 0.5 FCE 2) Thought, Belief and Behaviour + 0.5 FCE 3) Society and Its Institutions

HOW WILL I BE EVALUATED?

Evaluations include:

• Weekly active and respectful seminar engagement
• A critical book review
• Reflective analysis
• An advanced policy research brief
• Presentation of research findings
• Online discussion posts

Note: Assignments may vary from year to year.

WHAT WILL I GAIN FROM THIS COURSE?

This course will allow students to develop a rich understanding of several key policy issues that are being faced by governments and other organizations. Through readings and discussions, they will be able to understand why policy issues exist and even have the opportunity to address them by drafting their own policy briefs. Students will also be able to develop presentation skills when presenting their policy briefs at the end of the Winter term.

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TRN151Y1 COURSE INSTRUCTOR

Dr. Daniel Manulak, PhD

Sessional Instructor, Trinity College (2026-27)
Sessional Lecturer, Department of History, University of Toronto (2027)

Email: daniel.manulak@utoronto.ca

Daniel Manulak is a Course Instructor in the International Relations Program at Trinity College and a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. From 2024-2026, Daniel was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in History at the University of Toronto and, from 2022-2024, he was a William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He has also been a Sassoon Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Scholar at Michigan State University.

Daniel is an international and global historian, with an emphasis on Canada, transnational activism, emotions, and global order. His work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including the Canadian Historical Review, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and Diplomatic History, while his public-facing work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Epicenter, and The Conversation. Daniel’s first book, Canada, Apartheid, and the Defence of the Liberal Order, was published by UBC Press in 2026. During the 2026-27 academic year, Daniel will be teaching TRN151: “Global Governance,” HIS311: “Canada in the World,” and TRN409: “Canada and Asia in Revolution, 1945 to the Present.”