Liberal Arts and Sciences - Global Challenges with a major in Governance, Economics and Development Leiden University

Overview

Wrenching poverty, global inequality, violent political and ethnic strife, deadlocked, unresponsive or even collapsing governments, growing dissatisfaction with democracy and missed opportunities for innovation – these are merely some of the challenges of governance and development with which our Liberal Arts and Sciences - Global Challenges with a major in Governance, Economics and Development programme from Leiden University aims to teach students to critically engage.

Key Facts

Inequality and difference in the prosperity within and across societies concerns us. However, people seldom consider the fact that most inequality is result of human choices: over time, different societies organize themselves in different ways, these differences may affect the quality of people’s lives. This Major Governance, Economics and Development at Leiden University College The Hague is designed to give students the tools to better understand these processes and identify how tools of governance can be used to enhance or impair development and prosperity by integrating insights from the  following disciplines: Anthropology, Data  Science, Development Studies, Economics, Political Science, and Public Policy.

In this major, we examine questions such as...

• Why are the commitments of the Paris Climate Accord not being implemented?

• How can a society transition out of protracted conflict and move towards sustainable peace?

• Who is liable if a fully autonomous weapon (e.g. a drone) commits a mass atrocity?