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Transnational Regional Governance in the Poly-crisis (STG-MA-ECM-TRG)

STG-MA-ECM-TRG

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The 21st Century poly-crisis has widened the gap between the demand side and supply side of governance.  State capacity is put to the test while the policy space to deliver public goods has shrunk.
The subnational level of governance (regions/cities) is often overlooked and underutilised. However, it can boost state capacity across siloed policy domains and institutional stovepipes.  The European Union provides a laboratory to showcase and test the comparative advantage of governance solutions that reconnect the local, state, and supranational policy levels.
Today’s strategic and operational environment for policymakers faces rapid transformational change.  Hyperconnectivity and power diffusion have triggered what the World Economic Forum’s 2023 Global Risks Report has called a cascading ‘poly-crisis’ which cannot be confined to a single policy realm or scale of analysis (World Economic Forum, 2023).  Multiple policy challenges – climate change, war in Ukraine; pandemics such as COVID-19; disruptions in global food and energy supplies – form a cluster of crises that mutually reinforce each other. 
This elective course will be organised on case-study basis. The students will receive insight of the role of cities and regions are playing as policy entrepreneurs in the European Union’s (EU) system of multilevel governance.  The role of the European committee of the regions and various networks/organisations will be critically analysed for the cases like climate change, biodiversity, health resistance or food security. The students will also learn about the sub-national diplomacy at European level and globally. The case studies will be focusing on actors-identification, decision making processes, achievements and shortcomings.

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