• Precisely how is governance changing in a globalizing world?
• What factors and forces explain differing governance responses to globalization?
• What are the implications of these changes for professional practice, for government policy, and for the rights and responsibilities of communities and citizens?

Questions like these increasingly preoccupy professionals in such diverse areas as: state and national government; business and management; campaigning and activism; and development and aid delivery. The 2008 Wall Street crisis in particular has raised dramatic questions about the ways in which mechanisms of power, influence, regulation and accountability operate in our interconnected world.

This relaunched Masters programme at Murdoch University offers graduates and professionals a sound intellectual basis for formulating practical responses to these questions. It analyses how societies and polities respond to the complex and multifaceted challenges of a globalised world and examines new notions of accountability and political participation often accompanying these responses.