Globalization is a master megatrend of the 21st century, a multifaced process transforming the institutions and practices of international relations, the global economy, culture, and everyday life.  Globalization's essence is a voluminous, accelerating increase in the flow of all manner of objects and ideas across nation-state boundaries throughout every corner of the globe, albeit unequally and with varying consequences.  The process expands the arena of action in which government leaders, CEOs, cultural influencers, and other public figures make consequential decisions to include vast new expanses of geographical space populated by many different kinds of people of varying identities, occupations, perspectives, and interests.  Globalization can be highly positive in its consequences (e.g., facilitating the diffusion of new knowledge and technologies, stimulating economic development) or negative (hastening the transmission of new pathological viruses, propagating financial crises).  Either way, globalization is powerfully but often unpredictably transformative.  This course will convey to students the competing conceptual and theoretical approaches to explaining globalization while illustrating these concepts and theories with real-world developments.  The course will also convey to students the variety of approaches practitioners use in trying to manage globalization so that its benefits can be maximized and the harms it causes can be reduced.