Globalisation Database

The GGP, financially supported by the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos  (FFMS, Lisbon/Portugal), develops a Globalisation Database, which takes up the experiences and success of the FFMS’s PORDATA  databases on contemporary Portugal and Europe and adds a global layer to the endeavours of the FFMS  to inform the wider public on current trends in and facts of national, European and world-wide relevance.

 

The Database takes a broad view on relevant elements of globalisation by directing the attention not only to the economic and political foundation of global human interaction, but also to its most vital environmental and societal basis. With this particular approach, it seeks to collect and unite most important statistical resources on trends of globalisation. It, moreover, seeks to provide knowledge and facts that add to the understanding of today’s world and of fundamental political, economic, environmental and societal changes that affect the global interrelatedness of policies, politics and polities in core areas most strongly exposed to the effects of globalisation, such as:

• Agriculture
• Conflicts
• Demographic Development
• Economic Development
• Energy
• Environment
• Governance
• Human Mobility
• Living Conditions
• Social/Societal Development
• Sustainable Livelihood
• Technological Development

With this focus, the Globalisation Database will be sensitive to most relevant elements of global societal and sustainable development that have repercussions on the overall performance of the international community, international organisations, and institutions, multilateral fora, networks, actors, and on the nation state.

 

The Globalisation Database project (September 2011 - August 2013) is lead by Gaby Umbach  and involves a team of researchers of the EUI and of the Portuguese Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

 

Laura Bartolini, EUI

Laura Puccio, EUI

Martiño Rubal Maseda, EUI