ABSTRACT
The field of global policy studies can be defined as the study of international interactions designed to deal with shared public policy problems. Such policy problems can include:
trans-boundary problems, such as people, pollution or goods literally going across international boundaries;
common property problems, such as the oceans, Antarctica or the atmosphere, which nobody owns but are a kind of common good that need to be regulated, or else (like the tragedy of the commons) they will be devoured, to the mutual detriment of the nations of the world;
simultaneous problems like health, education and welfare, about which all countries can learn from each other.
