Global Governance Programme

A specific programme of formation and training of European intellectual and policy elites on global governance issues is absent at the European level. The Global Governance Programme (GGP) is meant to contribute to the understanding and knowledge of global issues; to contribute to academic and policy debates on global governance; to train new generations of scholars, public officials, and practitioners; and to encourage interaction between academics, policy makers, journalists and activists. In a nutshell: to increase the European critical mass on global governance and to reinforce the European imprint on the debates taking place at the global level.

The Programme pays particular attention to the EU’s position and role in Global Governance as a natural extension of its regional integration and in particular to the European experience in designing effective multilateral rules and institutions. It will also discuss the GG efficiency and legitimacy of the EU external representation as based on the Nice (/Lisbon) constitutional framework.

The GGP focuses the existing resources available at the EUI/RSCAS and aims at enlarging the faculty to reinforce the global character of the EUI and its role in shaping the debates on those issues.

 The Programme encompasses some of the already established areas of research at the RSCAS, such as financial stability, energy, migration, and development assistance, and will progressively extend to other global issues such as trade, human security, global regulation, health, international security. The GGP also foresees the establishment of a European Academy of Global Governance devoted to top level training, discussion and debates and the setting up of a Monitoring Unit on Accountability and New Social Risks in the Context of Globalization.

The Programme is directed by Miguel Maduro and begins its activity in 2009/2010 with the attribution of a number of post-doctoral fellowships to junior researchers in the field.