Forms and Dynamics of Global Governance
Indirect Governance Beyond Principal-agent Theory
The projects of this research area investigate patterns and dynamics of global governance. The aim is to identify conditions of success and failure. The approach is interdisciplinary combining perspectives from economics, political science and public administration.
The Transformation of Global Governance
The Transformation of Global Governance Project is a horizontal initiative at the European University Institute, a joint endeavour of the School of Transnational Governance and the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair in European Economic and Monetary Integration at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
Global Economics: Trade, Investment and Development
COVID-19 Trade Policy Database: Food and Medical Products
Many governments are using trade policy measures to increase the availability of personal protective equipment, medical supplies, and food products during the COIVD-19 pandemic. Tracking them is important for assessing their incidence, effectiveness, and potential international spillover effects—particularly on countries that depend on imports of these critical products.
RESPECT – Realising Europe’s soft power in external cooperation and trade
RESPECT is a project funded by the European Commission under HORIZON 2020 for the period 2018-2021. Its overarching goal is to identify options and opportunities for better realising the EU’s soft power in achieving the external policy goals set by the Lisbon Treaty and the EU’s trade and development strategy.
Revitalizing Multilateral Governance at the WTO 2.0
Following the Report of the High-Level Group of Experts on the Future of Global Trade Governance, the second stage of this project supported by the Bertelsmann Stiftung focuses on key areas of policy conflict such as subsidies and dispute settlement and on improving WTO working practices.
Policy Research and Advisory Activities
An active programme of advisory activities and applied research that is centred on issues that are relevant for developing countries such as tailor-made training, both on the EUI premises and in other locations, and advisory work for international organisations and development agencies
Trade Facilitation and Rules of Origin
This project, a joint venture with UNCTAD, focuses on developing tools and research to understand the extent of differences in product specific rules of origin across countries and trade agreements
Voluntary Sustainability Standards
This projects reflects on the phenomenon of private transnational governance and in particular on Voluntary Sustainability Standards and their role for trade and sustainable development
Trade Policy Research Network
The Network includes a number of projects such as the ‘Trade Policy Modelling Forum’, a consortium of modellers and their institutions and research on policy dimensions of supply chain trade and firm- and industry-level strategies in a Global Value Chain world
WTO case law project
The project, started in 2001 with financial support from the American Law Institute, brings together lawyers and economists who jointly assess the previous years WTO Case Law at an annual conference hosted by the Global Governance Programme, EUI
Europe in the World: International Relations, International Security, World Politics
EU-LISTCO
EU-LISTCO investigates the challenges posed to European foreign policy by identifying risks connected to areas of limited statehood and contested orders.
EU’s Global Engagement
The EU’s Global Engagement database provides a comprehensive overview of EU military operations and civilian missions under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).
The History of EC Foreign Relations
This research project provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the European Community’s (EC’s) external relations during the Cold War
Divided We Stand: Europe’s New Ways of Projecting Power and Influence in 21st Century World Politics
This research project examines the nearly 40 military operations and civilian missions launched by the EU under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) banner
Cultural Pluralism
BRaVE: Building Resilience against Violent Extremism and Polarisation
BRaVE is an EU-funded research project researching the impact of, and means of responding to, extremism in seven different European countries.
GREASE: Radicalisation, Secularism and the Governance of Religion: Bringing together European and Asian Perspectives
GREASE is looking at how religious diversity is governed in a broad range of cultures, comparing relevant norms, laws and practices, emphasising insights for countering radicalisation trends.
SIRIUS – Skills and Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Applicants in European Labour Markets
Despite the polarisation in public and policy debates generated by the post-2014 fluxes of refugees, asylum applicants and migrants, European countries need to work out an evidence-based way to deal with migration and asylum rather than a prejudice-based one.
PASTRES – Pastoralism, Uncertainty & Resilience
PASTRES (Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins) is a research project which aims to learn from the ways that pastoralists respond to uncertainty, applying such ‘lessons from the margins’ to global challenges.
DEFEND
DEFEND is an international partnership of academic, industrial and governmental organisations working together to tackle the emergence of African swine fever and lumpy skin disease in European livestock.
MONITOR – Global Intelligence on Racism
A monthly magazine and portal acting as a channel to bring the most innovative research on racism around the world to global civil society and policy communities
Global Elite Migration Of Opera Singers And Ballet Dancers (GEM)
GEM is a comparative, ethnographic, multi-method study of three intersecting elite migration streams from non-EU Eastern Europe, China and Cuba to EU Member States, United States, Canada and Australia. The project seeks to analyse the interaction between the ‘global elite’ migrant and his/her network as well as between globalisation and nationalism.
Global Citizenship
EU-CITZEN
Academic Network to perform research services on issues pertaining to Citizenship of the Union rights and related policies.
Global Citizenship Governance
Governing global migration is one of the most pressing issues of our time. With more than 250 million international immigrants, the question of how citizenship should be distributed has become a controversial issue, morally and politically.
GlobalStat
GlobalStat
GlobalStat is a database that aims to meet the need for publicly available information on our globalised world and globalising societies to support evidence-based analysis and informed decision-making.
TRIGGER
The TRIGGER project aims to generate knowledge on the EU’s actorness, effectiveness and influence in global governance. It will develop new ways to harness the potential of public engagement and participatory foresight in complex governance decisions, thereby also tackling emerging trends such as nationalism, regionalism and protectionism.
On The Political Economy Of Measuring State Capacity And Governance: Mapping Transnational Approaches And Their Production
Given the immediate relevance of ‘good’ governance to the Post-2015 Development Agenda, the project maps the political economy of governance and state capacity measures by systematically analysing who rates state capacity and governance where, how, what for, and by whom it is funded