Working group Reimaging global security governance Add to calendar 2023-04-27 16:00 2023-04-27 18:00 Europe/Rome Reimaging global security governance Seminar Room Villa Malafrasca YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Apr 27 2023 16:00 - 18:00 CEST Seminar Room, Villa Malafrasca Organised by Department of Political and Social Sciences The EUI International Relations Working Group hosts a session with Elizabeth Maloba. Traditional transnational governance of security is underpinned by the belief that there is a logical relationship between variables. It maintains a Newtonian view of the world, a Gaussian vocabulary and a reductionist approach. Broad theories of behaviour are used to generate hypotheses on causal relationships that can be represented by linear equations and straight lines. But the resulting global security policy seems inadequate to make the world a safer place. The doomsday clock is now set at 90 seconds to midnight. There is a war in Europe. Efforts to prevent and counter terrorism and violent extremism seem powerless in the face of an increasing number of extreme positions with a growing number of recruits and a rising number of attacks. In parallel complexity, science has explored and articulated a contrasting world of understanding, helping to explain complex dynamic phenomena in a widely diverse range of settings using insights and concepts like non-linearity, edge of chaos, self-organisation, emergence and coevolution. This working session will take the first step in an attempt to bridge these two worlds, explaining and then relating the ideas of contemporary complexity theory to the global security governance system. The aim is to provoke and inspire changes in thinking about security governance that will lead to more effective governance in the face of increasing challenges.