Economics of Global Governance Unit
The project opens the first forum in Europe that organizes cross-fertilization between economists on the one hand, and political scientists and lawyers, on the other, on governance in a multipolar and multilayered world. It undertakes the following activities: Conduct research aimed at contributing theoretically and empirically to the analysis of multi-level and multi-mode governance; Organize high-level workshops and conferences in order to stimulate cross-fertilization and discussions, and to publish high-quality multidisciplinary research in top journals or at international publishers; Provide a forum for the discussion on framework to enhance international governance involving government, academia, and industry through ad hoc workshops. Provide training in the framework of the Executive Seminars of the Academy of Global Governance of the EUI. Study the feasibility of an outreach program consisting of a website that would seek to make the Global Governance Program an essential source of information about methods and initiatives of international governance, and about research on multi-level and multi-mode governance.
In 2011 our research will focus on the challenges of better understanding the essence of national states and the drivers (and hindering factors) of a rationalization of public governance in the context of renewed international relations (economic globalization, regional political integration, increasing influence of Inter-governmental Organizations, etc.) and of erosion of legitimacy of many national states (exemplified by the raise of NGOs, the many crisis of current democratic modes of governance in the North, and the difficult path to open access societies in the South, etc.). Our current research strands are: the historic comparative analysis of the building of modern states and alternative constitutional arrangements; the investigation of the role of regulators and their requested institutional organization in the new economic context, characterized by international integration of markets and competition based on innovation; the economics of heterarchic systems of governance in the areas ‘Internet’ and ‘environment’.
Prof. Eric Brousseau is in charge of the "Economics of Global Governance Area” contributing to the Global Governance Programme of the RSCAS.
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