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RESEARCH TURNED INTO ACTION
The Global Governance Programme
Published in June 2016 by the European University Institute
© European University Institute, 2016
FOREWORD
The Global Governance Programme is
one of the flagship programmes of the
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced
Studies at the European University
Institute. It aims to build a community
of outstanding professors and scholars,
produce high quality research, engage
with the world of practice through policy
dialogue, and contribute to the fostering
of present and future generations of
policy- and decision-makers through its
executive training.
The launch of the Programme in 2010
was based on the understanding that the
world has fundamentally changed over
the last twenty years, becoming ever
more connected and multipolar, with a
pronounced expansion in demand for
global governance given the problems
facing our contemporary societies. Many
of the big issues facing the world can only
be addressed through cooperation across
borders involving states, international
organisations, civil society and private
actors. The international system is
characterised by a serial rise in the
number of regional organisations, trade
agreements, arbitration mechanisms, and
NGOs with a global focus. States remain
powerful actors in the international system
but as parts of a world of connectivity and
deep interdependence.
As the European University Institute’s
response to these developments in regional
and international cooperation, the Global
Governance Programme focuses on four
broad interdisciplinary themes and on many
cross-cutting issues related to globalisation:
• European, Transnational and Global Governance
• Global Economics
• Europe in the World
• Cultural Pluralism
In all of these areas, established and
early-career scholars within and beyond
academia research, write on and discuss
issues of global governance in a unique
environment full of creativity and
intellectual vitality, in close cooperation
with other Robert Schuman Centre
programmes and the wider European
University Institute community.
Thanks in part to the unparalleled
convening power of the Robert Schuman
Centre,
the
Global
Governance
Programme has attracted distinguished
scholars and leading decision-makers
for intellectually vibrant discussions
which have contributed robust critical
thinking to questions of policy and
institutional
design.
The
Global
Governance Programme produces highquality academic and policy publications,
including the Policy Brief series.
Find out more about our research
community and how to join us and learn
more about our core activities in the
following pages.
Brigid Laffan
Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced
Studies and of the Global Governance Programme
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INTERDISCIPLINARY
RESEARCH AT THE FOREFRONT
EUROPEAN, TRANSNATIONAL AND
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
The European, Transnational and
Global Governance research area
develops policy-oriented research with
a transversal character. This is based on
the understanding that a serial increase
has occurred in the number of actors
engaging in governance beyond state
borders. For example, some 60,000
NGOs are operating in the international
system. Moreover, many different modes
of governance exist at the regional and
global levels, including state-led forms
of transnational governance, governance
and regulation produced by non-state
actors, and a multiplicity of regime
complexes involving both public and
private actors. This research area focuses
on the mechanisms, processes and
agents of governance at the global and
regional levels, while its activities bridge
other Global Governance Programme
research areas that concentrate more
on specific global public goods, notably
trade, investment, development, cultural
pluralism and the role of Europe in the
world.
With a substantive focus on governance,
emphasis is placed on how transnational
cooperation evolves and operates in
different parts of the world. The research
area draws on the experiences of European,
regional and international organisations
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Global Governance Programme
to analyse negotiation dynamics,
power and asymmetrical relations, the
institutionalisation of co-operation, the
roles of law and norms, issues of regulation
and compliance, and differences across
policy fields and the regions of the world.
Attention is paid to questions of the
design, effects and compliance of different
modes of governance. The research area
also addresses issues pertaining to the
legitimacy, efficiency and accountability
of evolving modes of governance that
are weakly rooted in democratic politics
within states.
The European Union has evolved into
the most institutionalised and legally
bounded system of governance above the
level of the state. The depth and range of
its policy reach, its central institutions,
and the constitutionalisation of its
treaties have transformed the original
communities into a distinctive compound
polity. The European Union represents an
intensive site of transnational governance
unmatched in other regions in the world.
Europe possesses unparalleled experience
as a laboratory of transnational
governance and co-operation. The focus
here is on ‘Europe as a Laboratory’ in
which the core dynamics of European
integration and the governance modes
that it has fostered are developed.
RESEARCH AREA DIRECTOR
Brigid Laffan is Professor
and Director of the
Robert Schuman Centre
for Advanced Studies and
of the Global Governance
Programme. In August
2013, Professor Laffan left the School of
Politics and International Relations at
University College Dublin, where she was
Professor of European Politics. She was
Vice-President of University College
Dublin and Principal of the College of
Human Sciences from 2004 to 2011. She
was the founding director of the Dublin
European Institute at University College
Dublin from 1999 and in March 2004
was elected as a member of the Royal
Irish Academy. She is a member of the
Board of the Mary Robinson Foundation
for Climate Justice. She was on the
Fulbright Commission until September
2013 and was the 2013 Visiting Scientist
for the EXACT Marie Curie Network.
PART-TIME PROFESSOR
Thomas Christiansen
holds the Chair in
European Institutional
Politics in the
Department of Political
Science at Maastricht
University, The Netherlands, and is
also part-time Professor at the Robert
Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
He is Executive Editor (with Simon
Duke) of the Journal of European
Integration, co-editor with Sophie
Vanhoonacker of the ‘European
Administration Governance’ book series
at Palgrave Macmillan and a member of
the board of the Research Committee on
European Unification of IPSA. He has
published widely on different aspects of
European integration. ‘Security Relations
between China and the European Union
– From Convergence to Cooperation?’,
co-edited with Emil Kirchner and Han
Dorussen, is due to be published by
Cambridge University Press in August
2016.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Graeme Crouch is a
PhD candidate at the
University of Victoria,
Department of Political
Science, working under
the supervision of
Dr Amy Verdun. He holds an MA in
Political Science from the University of
Victoria, and a BA in History Education
from Eastern Kentucky University.
In the final year of his Ph.D (2013-2014),
Graeme was Visiting Student at the EUI,
and from March to June 2015 he was
Visiting Researcher at Leiden University,
College of The Hague. Broadly, his work
covers the Europeanisation of southeast
Europe, investigating the importance
of bureaucratic cooperation and NGO
engagement during the accession
process.
EUROPEAN, TRANSNATIONAL AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
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Research Project
ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MEASURING
STATE CAPACITY AND GOVERNANCE
Given the immediate relevance of ‘good’
governance to the Post-2015 Development
Agenda, the project takes the problematic
state of measuring governance and state
capacity as its starting point. It 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. It also assesses the
differences between and the performance
of different measures. This analysis is
a particularly innovative contribution
to research on state effectiveness and
governance, to which little attention has
been given so far. The project is producing
an innovative cross-sectional dataset on
the political economy of state capacity
and governance indicators. It maps the
type of producer; the type of funder
financing the production of governance
measures; the governance level at which
measures are produced; the production
process; and the geographical location
of a wide range of governance measures.
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of
systematic differences in measures and
their production processes as well as work
on key definitions of governance and
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state capacity complement data collection
in this research project. The project
is funded by the Effective States and
Inclusive Development (ESID) Research
Centre of the University of Manchester
and is co-directed by Dr Gaby Umbach
and Dr Antonio Savoia (ESID), with
the participation of Professor David
Hulme (ESID) and Dr Debora V. Malito
(University of Cape Town).
The project extends previous research on
‘Global Governance by Indicators,’ codirected by Professor Nehal Bhuta (EUI)
and Dr Gaby Umbach, with Dr Debora
V. Malito participating as Research
Associate. This project examined the
development, application and impact
of indicators, composite indicators and
indices in global governance and global
administrative law. It analysed indicators
as differently institutionalised governance
forms, and investigated questions of
democracy and accountability that
accompany their deployment. The results
of this project are due to be published
in The Palgrave Handbook of Indicators
in Global Governance (edited by Bhuta,
Malito and Umbach) in 2016.
GLOBAL ECONOMICS:
TRADE, INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
The ‘Global Economics’ research area
conducts policy-relevant research in the
area of trade, investment and economic
development. An ever larger share of
national output and employment involves
participation in international value
chains, with firms specialising in defined
inputs and services that are embodied in
a final product. An ever rising share of
national employment and output is also
accounted for by services. The economic
development and growth prospects of
countries depend on effective policies that
support the ability of firms to participate in
the global economy and allow households
and firms to have access to a wide range
of high quality service inputs. Global
value chains offer a useful framework to
better understand how regulations impact
on trade and investment, and to identify
policies that governments can adopt
to enable firms to better exploit trade
opportunities. However, these policies
may generate negative impacts on other
countries. International agreements are
a key instrument used by governments to
agree on policy disciplines to reduce these
detrimental spill over effects.
The research team focuses on issues of
interest to the European Union and its
Member States, but also ones reaching
beyond the European borders, including
in relation to the functioning and future
of the multilateral trading system (the
WTO), so-called mega-regional trade
agreements (such as the EU negotiations
on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership (TTIP) agreement and a
plurilateral Trade in Services Agreement),
and the trade and investment policies
of large emerging economies and other
developing countries.
Under this umbrella, a number of research
projects aim to investigate:
• The future of the multilateral
trading system – analysis of trade
and investment policies and trade
agreements aiming to identify national
interests and concerns about current
international
trade
governance
mechanisms, as part of an evolving
network of policy research institutes
based in Europe, including the
Geneva-based International Centre for
Trade and Sustainable Development
and the World Economic Forum, and
around the world.
• Approaches towards international
regulatory cooperation – on the
design of new modalities of economic
cooperation policies that generate
trade and investment barriers for
goods and services
• Trade and development policies in
a supply chain world – in particular,
looking at the design of policies to
assist small firms to integrate into
international value chains, trade
facilitation, foreign direct investment,
intellectual
property
protection,
and other government policies in
a world characterised by extensive
international
specialisation
and
production networks.
GLOBAL ECONOMICS: TRADE, INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
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• Transparency
in
government
procurement – on policies that
governments
implement
when
engaging in public purchasing and
assessing their economic effects.
on service trade and investment
as channels to increase economic
productivity and growth and the
impact of service trade policies on the
performance of service sectors.
• Services and Sustainable Development
– on the role of services in economic
development, with a particular focus
RESEARCH AREA DIRECTORS
Bernard M. Hoekman
is Professor at the Robert
Schuman Centre for
Advanced Studies. He has
held senior positions at the
World Bank, including
Director of the International Trade
Department and Research Manager
of the Development Research Group.
He has also worked as an economist in
the GATT Secretariat and held visiting
appointments at Sciences Po, Paris. He
has published widely on trade policy and
development, the global trading system,
and trade in services. He is a graduate of
the Erasmus University Rotterdam, holds
a PhD in economics from the University
of Michigan and is a Research Fellow at
the Centre for Economic Policy Research,
where he co-directs the Trade Policy
Research Network.
Petros C. Mavroidis
holds the Chair in Global
and Regional Economic
Law in the Law
Department of the
European University
Institute and the Robert Schuman Centre
for Advanced Studies. He is Edwin B.
Parker Professor of Law at Columbia Law
School in New York, on leave at the EUI.
He was Chief Reporter in the American
Law Institute project on ‘The Law and
Economics of the WTO.’ He has
published on the law and economics of
international trade organisation, and has
been advising developing countries that
litigate before the WTO since 1996. He is
one of the two experts that the WTO has
hired under Art. 27.2 DSU to provide
legal advice and assist developing
countries when acting as complainants or
defendants before WTO Panels and the
Appellate Body.
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PART-TIME PROFESSOR
Giorgia Giovannetti
is Vice President for
International Relations
and Professor of Economics
at the University of
Florence, as well as part-time Professor
at the European University Institute. She
acted as Director of the Research Centre
of the Italian Trade Institute from 2005
to 2007, and was Scientific Director to
the European Report on Development
in 2009 and 2010. She has also served
as advisor to the Italian Treasury and
Ministry of Foreign Trade (2002-2014).
She has collaborated with several
international organisations and think
tanks (UNCTAD, ITC, Center for Global
Development etc.). She holds a PhD and
an MPhil in Economics from Cambridge
University and a Laurea cum laude in
Statistics (Rome). She has been Fellow
at Trinity College, Cambridge (19901995) and Visiting Professor at several
universities.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Matteo Fiorini works as
an economist on services
trade, trade policy and
migration. He holds a
PhD in Economics and
a Master of Research
in Economics from the European
University Institute. He also holds a
Master of Science in Economics and
Social Sciences from Bocconi University.
Prior to joining the Robert Schuman
Centre for Advanced Studies, he held
various short-term positions as Research
Assistant for the Migration Policy Centre
of the European University Institute,
as an intern in the Economic Research
and Statistics Division of the WTO
(Geneva), and Research Assistant at
Bocconi University. His research interests
are international economics, migration,
political economics and economic
networks.
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Research Projects
TRADE POLICY RESEARCH NETWORK
The Trade Policy Research Network
(TPRN) conducts research on trade policyrelated issues, including assessments
of proposed trade negotiations and
the effects of trade agreements, the
policy dimensions of supply chain
trade, trade in services and foreign
direct investment, and enforcement
and dispute settlement. It aims to offer
conceptually solid, theoretically wellgrounded analysis that is directly relevant
to informing the design of economic
integration initiatives and managing the
globalisation process. Co-directed by
Professors Joe Francois (University of
Bern) and Professor Bernard Hoekman
of the Global Governance Programme,
the TPRN engages Centre for Economic
Policy Research fellows and affiliates,
as well as research associates, including
leading practitioners and researchers at
the forefront of trade policy analysis from
around the world. One of the activities of
the Network is the Trade Policy Modelling
Forum, which brings together leading
academic modellers and analysts from
international organisations to improve
model-based analysis of deep integration
initiatives – such as the Transatlantic
Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
– by agreeing on common standards
and benchmarks to assess the impact of
regulatory policies and cooperation in
this area.
E15 INITIATIVE TASK FORCE ON REGULATORY
SYSTEMS COHERENCE
The Task Force aims to examine the
problems posed by differences in
regulation and regulatory regimes across
markets and to consider alternative
approaches that could be taken by
governments and the business community
to reducing regulatory barriers to trade.
Research and deliberations aim to assess
how countries are pursuing regulatory
cooperation in the context of bilateral,
regional or multilateral initiatives,
the state of play in the World Trade
Organisation (WTO), and more generally
options for multilateral cooperation on
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regulation to enhance global welfare.
The Task Force aims to propose short-,
medium- and long-term policy options
to be brought to the attention of a
representative group of policy-makers
and business and civil society leaders at
the 2016 World Economic Forum Annual
Meeting in Davos. The Global Governance
Programme, with Professors Bernard
Hoekman, is the knowledge partner of the
Task Force, which is part of the broader
E15 Initiative of the International Centre
for Trade and Sustainable Development
and the World Economic Forum.
RESTORING MULTILATERAL TRADE COOPERATION
Twenty years after the establishment of
the WTO, the institution continues to
struggle to conclude the Doha round
of negotiations. Major WTO members,
including the EU and the US, are focused
on the negotiation of preferential trade
agreements, such as the TTIP. This
project, coordinated by the South African
Institute for International Affairs, brings
together a number of policy research
institutes and think tanks in emerging
economies to search for new ideas that
can assist in revitalising multilateral trade
cooperation. The Global Governance
Programme, with Professor Bernard
Hoekman, is one of the partners of this
World Bank-funded project. A series of
expert roundtables has been – and will be
– convened in major emerging economies.
These have already produced a number of
publications that have been discussed with
policy-makers in capitals and in Geneva.
The results and recommendations of the
project were presented at the Trade and
Development Symposium held at the
2015 WTO Ministerial Conference.
REGULATING THE ORIGIN OF GOODS IN THE TRANSATLANTIC TRADE
AND INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP: A PATH TOWARDS HARMONISATION
IN THE WTO?
This project centres on an underresearched area of trade regulation:
analysis of the law, politics and economics
of Rules of Origin (RoO), with a particular
focus on differences in approaches in the
EU and the US, motivated by the ongoing
negotiations to establish a Ttransatlantic
Trade Investment Partenership (TTIP).
The RoO that are agreed will help
determine the magnitude and distribution
of the benefits from TTIP. The RoO will
also be a determinant of the effects of
TTIP on third countries. One motivation
for the project is to assess whether, and
to what extent, there is scope for what
may be agreed in TTIP to overcome the
differences in views of the EU and the
US on RoO that have resulted in the
deadlock of negotiations in the WTO and
to establish a set of harmonised RoO for
a broad range of trade policy instruments
that do not involve trade preferences.
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EUROPE IN THE WORLD
The ‘Europe in the World’ research
area explicitly ties the study of Europe’s
international relations and role in
international and security affairs to the
central changes and challenges in world
politics today. Through its research,
seminars and scholarly publications, this
research area seeks to integrate theoretical
and conceptual insights from a wide
range of perspectives in international
relations, the social sciences, history and
international law with politically relevant
empirical analysis. The research area
contributes to theoretical and political
debates on European and international
affairs, and the implications of a multicentred multi-actor world for emerging
global dynamics. It engages with key areas
of European affairs and addresses some of
the big questions confronting Europe and
the European Union (EU) in the decades
ahead.
Central research themes of this research
area include:
•
Europe’s role and place in the
emerging world of 21st century
global politics;
•
Europe’s foreign relations broadly,
including the evolving relations of
the European Union with major
and emerging powers (including the
United States, China, Russia, India,
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Brazil) as well as regional and global
international organisations;
•
EU foreign, security, and defence
policy, including questions of
purpose and strategy;
•
the rocky and still tenuous
consolidation of the EU as a ‘high
politics’ actor in global affairs;
•
issues of coherence and cohesion
versus divisions and fragmentation
in external engagement;
•
internal and external aspects of
European security and defence;
•
the foreign, security and defence
policies of individual European states
or groups of states;
•
the impact of major shifts and
continuities in international affairs
on Europe itself.
The animating vision of the research
area is to bring together prominent and
promising scholars and practitioners in
the field, both from within and outside
the EUI, and to support politically and
theoretically important research, with the
goal of generating widely read publications
in internationally recognised journals and
publishing houses. This research area was
created in the spring of 2014.
Professor Ulrich Krotz
holds the Chair in
International Relations in
the Department of Political
and Social Sciences, and the
for Advanced Studies. He is the author
of ‘Shaping Europe: France, Germany
and Embedded Bilateralism from the
Elysée Treaty to Twenty-First Century
Politics’ (with Joachim Schild) (Oxford,
hardback 2013, paperback 2015);
‘History and Foreign Policy in France
and Germany’ (Palgrave Macmillan,
2015); and ‘Flying Tiger: International
Relations Theory and the Politics of
Advanced Weapons’ (Oxford, 2011). His
articles have appeared in journals such
as World Politics, International Security,
International Affairs, and the European
Journal of International Relations.
RESEARCH FELLOW
Richard Maher received a PhD in Political
Science from Brown
University, an MSc in
Political Theory from
the London School of
Economics and a BA in Political Science
from the University of Michigan. His
research project ‘Does Europe Need
a Foreign Policy?’ explores Europe’s
uneven progress toward developing
a more coherent and effective foreign
and security policy. Despite Europe’s
ambition to achieve closer cooperation
in these policy areas, there remain
persistent political, ideological,
bureaucratic, and strategic impediments
to greater collaboration. This project
evaluates Europe’s external relations
toward the United States, Russia, China,
the Middle East and North Africa,
and sub-Saharan Africa, and examines
functional issue areas such as the politics
of globalisation and global governance.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Danilo Di Mauro
holds a PhD in Political
Science from the Italian
Institute of Human
Science. He was a
Postdoctoral Fellow at
the universities of Siena and Catania,
and Marie Curie Research Fellow at the
European University Institute. His work
covers various research interests from
International Relations to European and
Democracy Studies. His articles have
appeared in peer-reviewed journals and
several book chapters. He is the author of
the monograph ‘The UN and the ArabIsraeli Conflict: American Hegemony
and UN Intervention since 1947,’
published by Routledge, and co-author
of the forthcoming book ‘Attitudes
Towards Europe Beyond Euroscepticism:
Supporting the European Union through
the Crisis,’ published by Palgrave.
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Research Projects
THE HISTORY OF EC FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1957-1992
This research project provides a
comprehensive review and analysis
of the European Community’s (EC’s)
external relations during the Cold War.
Empirically, the project focuses on two
key dimensions of EC external relations
during this period: its relations with
individual countries and world regions
(such as the United States, China, Japan,
the Middle East and the Soviet Union
and its satellites); and key policy domains
(including trade, foreign and security
policy, EC enlargement and economic
development). In both areas of inquiry, the
project evaluates and interprets the scope
and nature of external relations, including
the various policy goals and objectives
pursued, the instruments and strategies
deployed, the key actors involved, and
the Community’s record of achievement.
The project’s cross-disciplinary approach
draws on, connects and contributes to two
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major bodies of literature in international
history and international relations that
have traditionally existed in isolation and
mutual neglect: (1) Europe’s international
history at the crossroads of the Cold War,
decolonisation and European integration;
and (2) the growing scholarly literature on
the rise, from the mid-1990s onward, of
an EC/EU foreign, security and defence
policy, and on the EU’s foreign relations
more broadly in the twenty-first century.
The project has received generous
funding from the Research Council of
the European University Institute, the
Jean Monnet Activities programme of the
European Commission, and the Faculty
of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht
University, and will lead to the publication
of a book, ‘The History of EC Foreign
Relations, 1957-1992,’ edited by Ulrich
Krotz, Kiran Klaus Patel and Federico
Romero.
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, which have been among
the most remarkable features of the EU’s
emergent foreign, security, and defence
policy. Since embarking on the first
mission in 2003, the EU has deployed,
on average, some 5,000 troops and
personnel around the world each day. But
while growing in strategic importance,
influence and visibility, the EU’s physical
engagement in the world often remains
sharply contested and politicized. Why
do Member States engage abroad to
such significantly varying degrees, thus
creating operations and missions of very
different form and scope? Why has the EU
been able to launch military operations
of several thousand troops with the
backing of almost every member state,
while at the same time having difficulty
in marshalling support for much more
modest civilian missions? Why, finally,
does the EU abstain from engagement in
other similarly important and politically
plausible missions? The research project
seeks to answer these novel and essential
questions by empirically investigating
all EU operations and missions to date
as well as a range of ‘negative cases.’ It
evaluates the causes and forces that drive,
undermine, or limit Europe’s external
engagement. The study contributes to
scholarship on the fundamental forces
that drive foreign affairs and world politics
at large by offering a comprehensive
and rigorous analysis of Europe’s fitful
emergence as an international political
actor and its evolving strategic interests
around the globe. Funded by the Research
Council of the European University
Institute, the project will result in a
research monograph and several research
articles by Ulrich Krotz and Katerina
Wright, and, with Danilo Di Mauro, a
new dataset on EU civilian and military
missions.
EUROPE IN THE WORLD
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CULTURAL PLURALISM
The ‘Cultural Pluralism’ research area
develops theoretical and policy-oriented
research on the governance of cultural
and religious diversity in the 21st century.
The Cultural Pluralism team approaches
this topic from multiple perspectives.
It explores normative and conceptual
challenges that have arisen in western
democratic liberal societies which seek to
come to terms with cultural and religious
plurality, with a particular interest in the
challenge of religious diversity and the
ways it can be addressed through more
or less secularism within public life. The
trade-offs between respect for diversity
and the promotion of equality, both in the
economic and in the cultural domains, are
questioned.
This work also focuses on the sociological
realities of identity and diversity in a
context of intensified mobility. How does
globalisation affect national identity and
dominant conceptions of the nation?
Does it lead to a retreat to defensive
nationalism or does it promote new
configurations of plural and malleable
national identities responding to the
fast-changing realities of today? What is
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the role of religion, and in particular of
migrant or minority religions, in this field?
What new narratives are emerging among
right- and left-wing forces in Europe
promoting national homogeneity or
advocating the need for accommodating
the multicultural characteristics brought
by migrants and minorities?
Focusing on policy, the team investigates
how this globalising environment affects
different types of migrants. How are
migrant domestic workers influenced by
these changes? How are highly skilled
and elite migrants reacting to the global
economic recession? How do transnational
migrants mobilise social and economic
remittances? Finally, how can Europe deal
with a shifting geopolitical context that
triggers dramatically increased migration
and asylum-seeking flows?
The Cultural Pluralism area also engages
in training activities through two new
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
launched in early 2016: one introduces
students from different parts of the world
to the study of ‘International Migration’
and the other to ‘Creative Europe.’
Anna Triandafyllidou
is a Professor at the
for Advanced Studies.
Before joining the Global
Governance Programme,
she was a part time professor at the
Centre (2010-2012). During the past
decade, she headed a migration research
team as Senior Fellow at the Hellenic
Foundation for European and Foreign
Policy in Athens (2004-2012). She has
been a Visiting Professor at the College
of Europe in Bruges since 2002 . She has
held teaching and research positions
at the University of Surrey (UK), the
London School of Economics, the
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in
Rome, the European University Institute
and the Democritus University of Thrace.
She is consulted as an Evaluator by the
European Commission, the European
Research Council and several national
research funding councils and agencies.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Hara Kouki trained as a
historian in Athens, and
holds an MA in Film
and History from the
University of Kent. She
received her PhD from
the Law Department of Birkbeck College,
University of London. Before joining
the Global Governance Programme, she
worked for COSMOS (Centre on Social
Movement Studies on a project studying
anti-austerity mobilizations in Southern
Europe hit by the on-going crisis. She has
participated in several research projects
ranging from political and protest culture
to European identities and migration,
and has regularly contributed articles to
the press (Guardian, Al Jazeera English,
etc.).
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RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Irina Isaakyan holds a
PhD from the University
of Edinburgh and an
MA from the University
of Minnesota. She
works in the area of
high-skill migration and explores links
between globalisation and nationalism,
as well as between integration and
transnationalism. She previously
conducted research – as a Marie Curie
Intra-European Fellow and PostDoctoral Fellow at the UK Economic
and Social Research Council – on
gender and diaspora studies, immigrant
identities and social remittances. She
was also Reader and Research Fellow
at the Ryazan State Radio-Engineering
University in Russia and at the University
of Edinburgh.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Sabrina Marchetti is
mainly specialised in
issues of gender, welfare,
labour and migration,
with a specific focus on
the question of migrant
domestic work. She completed her PhD
in 2010 at Utrecht University in the
Netherlands within the Graduate Gender
programme. She has been a visiting
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fellow at the Centre for Gendering
Excellence at Linköping University
in Sweden, and at the Sociology
Department of the University of
Southern California in Los Angeles. She
has also been a Research Fellow at the
International Centre for Development
and Decent Work at Kassel University in
Germany.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Letizia Palumbo is
Research Associate
for the project
‘Trafficking for Labour
Exploitation: Assessing
Anti-Trafficking
Interventions in Italy.’ (TRAFFICKO).
She is also a Post-Doctoral Researcher
in Comparative Law at the University
of Palermo, Italy. From December
2014 to October 2015, she was a
Research Associate (national expert
for Italy) for the DemandAT project
– Domestic Work Case Study. She has
been a Visiting Fellow at a number of
international universities. At present,
she is conducting research on trafficking
for labour exploitation in the agriculture
and domestic work sectors in the EU, in
particular in Italy and the UK. She also
serves as a trainer on trafficking issues.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Alexandra Ricard-Guay
is a Research Associate
and main researcher for
the Case Study ‘DemandSide of Trafficking in
Domestic Work,’ of
the DemandAT project, conducted in
seven European countries. She holds
a PhD in Social Work from McGill
University. Prior to joining the European
University Institute, she was coordinator
of a national anti-trafficking coalition
(Quebec). She has worked for more
than seven years on anti-trafficking
research and projects. She has also
coordinated and worked as researcher
in many projects (international and
national) in the areas of gender-based
violence and (irregular) migration. She
previously worked as Programme Officer
in International Development in the area
of education and human rights.
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Research Projects
DEMANDAT ADDRESSING DEMAND IN ANTITRAFFICKING EFFORTS AND POLICIES
DemandAT examines the history,
economics and politics of anti-trafficking
measures, and explores how effective they
have been in practice. By delivering both
theoretical and empirical background
knowledge, the project aims to inform
EU and national policy-making in
order to ultimately eliminate or at least
reduce suffering from the worst forms of
exploitation. Trafficking in human beings
covers a wide range of forced labour and
exploitation of women, men and children.
While responses to trafficking have
traditionally focused on combating the
criminal networks involved in trafficking
or protecting the human rights of victims,
European countries are increasingly
exploring ways of influencing the demand
for the services or products of those
trafficked within their own economies
and societies.
The project, coordinated by the
International Centre for Migration
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Policy
Development,
investigates
demand in Trafficking of Human Beings
and related policies from a multi- and
interdisciplinary perspective across a wide
range of fields – migration, development
and labour studies. It combines a broad
mapping of conceptual and theoretical
issues and evidence in specific fields
with empirical in-depth analysis of case
studies on demand in Trafficking of
Human Beings and the related policies.
Based on research in seven different
countries – Belgium, the UK, France,
Greece, Italy, Cyprus and the Netherlands
– the DemandAT research team, led by
Professor Anna Triandafyllidou, examines
demand for trafficking in human
beings in the domestic work sector, the
motivations and the profits behind it, and
the circumstances that allow it to take
place. DemandAT is funded by the 7th
Framework Programme of the EU (20142017).
CULTURAL BASE: SOCIAL PLATFORM ON CULTURAL
HERITAGE
AND EUROPEAN IDENTITIES
The ‘Cultural Base’ research project
responds to the need to place the
governance of culture centre stage when
studying Europe’s future. Acknowledging
that the main societal challenges of
our time are cultural in nature (such as
racism, extremism, and even climate
change and our use of natural resources),
the project suggests that the solutions
are also cultural (in terms of finding a
common ground for mutual tolerance
and respect, or developing sustainable
lifestyles).
‘Cultural
Base’
brings
together a range of diverse stakeholders
(intellectuals, researchers, local and
regional authorities, civil society, artists
and culture practitioners) to discuss the
main challenges and issues that need
to be addressed by research and policy
initiatives in the culture domain. The
project critically reviews the state of
knowledge in the field, the existing policy
programmes, and through stakeholder
consultation contributes to the production
of new research agendas in the fields of
cultural heritage and European identity.
The ‘Cultural Base’ project has created
an interactive digital platform for such
consultations, alongside research reports
and actual meetings with stakeholders.
This two-year research project (20152017) is funded by the Horizon 2020
research and innovation framework
programme of the European Union.
The European University Institute, with
Professor Anna Triandafyllidou, is one of
the partner institutions, and the project
is coordinated by Professor Arturo
Rodriguez Moratò of the University of
Barcelona.
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ITHACA INTEGRATION, TRANSNATIONAL MOBILITY
AND HUMAN, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CAPITAL
TRANSFERS (2013-2015)
Between 2013 and 2015, Professor Anna
Triandafyllidou coordinated a research
consortium with the Real Instituto Elcano,
the London Metropolitan University, and
the International Centre for Migration
Policy Development
in Vienna,
implementing the ITHACA research
project, funded by the Directorate
General for Migration and Home Affairs
of the European Commission.
The project examined the link between
migrant integration and transnational
mobility by analysing the types of
capital transfer between origins and
destinations that such mobility generates.
The methodological approach brought
together qualitative and quantitative data.
During 2014 and early 2015, interviews
were conducted with relevant stakeholders
in four EU countries (Austria, Italy, Spain,
the UK) and in five non-EU countries
(Bosnia, India, Morocco, the Philippines
and the Ukraine) as well as a mixed
method (quantitative and qualitative)
survey among transnationally mobile
migrants in all nine countries (both at
destination and returnees).
The project was concluded at the end of
2015 and put together a database with the
results of 331 quantitative questionnaires
and semi-structured interviews with
transnationally mobile individuals. Some
conclusions could be drawn:
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• Transnational (physical) mobility is
a niche phenomenon concerning a
very small number of migrants that
are usually highly educated. It takes
different forms in different phases of the
person’s life and migration trajectory.
• Regularisation and acquisition of
long-term status determines migrants’
transnational mobility and the ease
with which they can move between
origin and destination.
• Integration into the host society
facilitates transnational engagement:
it enables for instants the gathering
of financial and social networking
resources that can subsequently be
invested in the country of origin.
• Family motives are a powerful driver of
transnational mobility: plans to return,
and particularly retirement plans and
small investment activities are the most
dynamic catalysts.
• Transnational mobility may or may
not be associated with transnational
engagement. Individuals who are
highly mobile between two (or more)
locations may be economically engaged
in either or both of these locations.
• Transnationally
mobile
migrants
generate social remittances: they
disseminate new ideas and sociocultural practices in both origin and
destination countries.
TRAFFICKING FOR LABOUR EXPLOITATION: ASSESSING
ANTI-TRAFFICKING INTERVENTIONS IN ITALY
(TRAFFICKO) (2015-2016)
This 12-month project (2015-2016)
was coordinated by Professor Anna
Triandafyllidou and co-funded by the
Open Society Foundation (Fund to
Counter Xenophobia).
The project aimed to critically assess
current policy responses to trafficking for
labour exploitation in Italy, and proposed
alternative frameworks for more effective
strategies with regard to the prevention
and protection of the victims. It also
aimed to provide tools and suggestions to
improve the implementation of existing
legislation, and to advocate for more
effective measures.
The project focused on the trafficking
of adults (men and women) for labour
exploitation in the agricultural sector in
Sicily, and in the domestic work sector in
Tuscany. Bringing together legal studies,
migration studies, sociology and gender
studies, and engaging in fieldworkbased research, the project delivered the
following results:
1) It mapped the ways in which migration
and labour law and their implementation
produces vulnerabilities that expose
migrant workers to the risks of trafficking.
2) It delivered a comprehensive analysis of
the impact of anti-trafficking interventions
in Italy with regard to identification,
assistance and the protection of victims,
as well as preventive measures.
3) It offered relevant policy advice to
lawyers, social workers and officials
engaged in the fight against trafficking
and severe labour exploitation
4) It proposed amendments to the policy
implementation framework.
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GLOBALSTAT
GlobalStat is a database that aims to
meets the need for publicly available
information on our globalised world and
globalising societies to support evidencebased analysis and informed decisionmaking. As a data gateway, it offers
statistical information on globalisation,
sustainability and human wellbeing from
1960 onwards from a broad range of
international sources.
Taking into account the multidimensional nature of these phenomena,
it presents country-level data focusing on
the economic, environmental, political,
social, societal and cultural performance
of nations in a harmonised format.
GlobalStat follows a broad and informed
approach to globalisation as well as to its
triggers, drivers and effects, and provides
detailed information on the way human
beings live, what freedoms they enjoy
and what limitations they face. As a
freely available information tool it offers
citizens, academics, stakeholders and
policy-makers easy access to an excellent
source of information to strengthen their
knowledge base on the many aspects and
multiple impacts of globalisation.
GlobalStat is structured in 12 thematic and
three horizontal areas. The thematic areas
are divided into sub-themes that include
statistical data series. The horizontal areas
offer insights into data on cross-cutting
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aspects of sustainable livelihood, national
wealth, human wellbeing and quality of
life.
GlobalStat is designed to grow over
time, and in 2016 will be embedded in
the European Parliamentary Research
Services’ website, to provide Members
of the European Parliament and their
collaborators direct access to reliable
statistical information. Collaboration with
the European Parliamentary Research
Services will be further extended to
various forms of data-related publications
and events during 2016.
WESTERN BALKAN
ROUTE
February 2016
SEA ROUTE
2015
April 2016
Example of an infographic developed by the GlobalStat team, 2016
RESEARCH PROJECT DIRECTOR
Gaby Umbach is
Founding Director of
GlobalStat and codirects the research
projects ‘On the Political
Economy of Measuring
State Capacity and Governance’ and
‘Global Governance by Indicators.’ She
holds a PhD in Political Science from
the University of Cologne, where she
was Senior Research Associate of the
Jean Monnet Chair for Political Science
and the Seminar for Social Policy
from 2000 to 2014. In both positions
she analysed and taught European
integration topics. In 2010, she joined
the Global Governance Programme for
a Jean Monnet Fellowship and joined
the Programme’s staff in 2011. Since July
2015 she serves as Book Review Editor
of the Journal of Common Market Studies
(JCMS) and in October 2015 she became
a member of the EUI’s Ethics Committee.
In her research at the Global Governance
Programme she has focussed on global
governance, sustainable development and
global governance by indicators.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Laura Bartolini holds
an MSc degree in
Development Economics
from the University of
Florence and a Master’s
in Public Policy and
Social Change from the Collegio Carlo
Alberto in Turin (Italy). She joined
the Global Governance Programme
as a Project Assistant for GlobalStat
in December 2011. In 2014-2015 she
worked as Research Associate for the
ITHACA project on transnationalism
and integration of third-country
nationals in Europe. She also participates
in the European University Institute
study on highly-skilled emigration
in times of crisis. She collaborates
on a World Bank project on migrant
remittances and financial inclusion, and
on research regarding the impacts of
crisis on migrant integration in southern
Europe.
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RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Caterina Francesca
Guidi is a Research
Associate at GlobalStat
and Ph.D. Candidate
in Economics at the
University of Siena. She
an expert in analysis and modeling of
quantitative data. Her research interests
are mainly concentrated on the European
welfare and health systems changes
due to the mobility and integration
of migrants. Prior to joining the
GlobalStat team in February 2013, she
has also worked in several international
organizations and NGOs in Belgium,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Serbia
and Spain, dealing mainly with public
health and migration issues. She holds an
MSc in Development Economics from
the University of Florence and a BSc
degree in Law and Economics from the
University of Bologna.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Luca Mancini holds
a PhD in Economics
Warwick, with a thesis
on higher education
and the labour market
for university graduates. Between 2004
and 2007 he was Research Officer in
Applied Econometrics at the Centre for
Research on Inequality, Human Security
and Ethnicity at the University of Oxford,
and continued to collaborate with the
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Centre on inequality-related research
until 2009. In 2010 he was Research
Assistant for the 2010 European Report
on Development at the Robert Schuman
Centre for Advanced Studies, on poverty,
inequality and social protection. Later,
he joined the Italian National Institute
of Statistics, where he has been working
on methodological issues relating to the
engineering and quality assessment of
population censuses.
BRIDGING RESEARCH AND
POLICY TO ADDRESS WORLD
CHALLENGES
In the post-1989 period, important
changes have occurred in the organisation
of the world economy and of world
politics more broadly. The new global
(dis)order is characterised by both
interdependence and mutual vulnerability
among world regions and nation-states.
The intensification of linkages and
connections driven by technology, trade,
investment, aid, and the mobility of
people and ideas is transforming states
and societies around the world.
The period of uncontested American
hegemony is waning; a new multipolar
international system is emerging,
underscored by the eclipse of the G7/
G8 of western powers by the G20. The
growing weight of countries such as
China, India and Brazil points to a relative
decline in the power and influence of the
‘West’, especially within the international
political economy. Demands for the
supply of public goods at both the
regional and international level are rising,
but significant – and in some cases rising
– barriers to their provision confound
policymakers.
The European Union (EU) is drawn into a
web of global governance as it tries to shape
– and is also shaped by – international
regimes, bilateral and multilateral
agreements that comprise today’s patterns
of transnational governance.
Research conducted at the Global
Governance Programme aims to identify
the medium- and long-term challenges
that the world faces, and possible ways to
address them.
Global thinkers and leaders, academics
and senior officials, constitute the pool of
experts on whom the Programme can draw
for inspired and cutting- edge debates on
the problems the world currently faces.
The Programme fosters dialogue between
the worlds of research and policy in an
objective, evidence-based manner, and
seeks to contribute robust and critical
thinking to important questions of policy
and institutional design.
The Programme has been represented at
meetings hosted by the European Union
Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)
to discuss a global foreign policy and
security strategy for the EU. It also hosts
conferences, seminars, and workshops
on Europe’s external relations that bring
together scholars and policymakers. In
April 2016, for example, the Programme
hosted a workshop on ‘China’s Rise and
Europe’s Response’, a critical issue for
Europe’s international relations. Speakers
explored policy areas in which there has
been a convergence of perspectives and
policies between the EU and China, and
issues on which there continues to be
disagreement and discord. Individual
panels were devoted to exploring
the security, economic, political and
normative dimensions of EU-China
relations.
In June 2016 the Global Governance
Programme is also bringing together
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institutional actors from the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), the European
Commission and the European Central
Bank (ECB) (the so-called ‘Troika’)
together with former ministers and
senior officials from countries interested
in the ‘Macro Economic Adjustment’
programmes. The ‘High Level Dialogue
on Policy Conditionality’ examines the
technicalities of the loan agreements, and
aims to reflect on the implementation of
‘conditionality’ during the programmes
and to discuss improvements that could
be made in these critical interventions.
The Programme also regularly organises
academic and policy workshops that
address major challenges related to
the governance of cultural diversity in
Europe and the world today. In March
2014, for example, a policy workshop was
held with all the leading international
organisations that deal with minority and
migrant rights and integration, including
the Council of Europe, the Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD), the International
Organization for Migration (IOM), the
European Commission, and the European
Parliament, as well as the European
Fundamental Rights Agency and several
experts from Europe and North America.
Similarly, in summer 2015 the Programme
held a large conference on ‘secularism’
to discuss how religious diversity is
managed in Asia, the Middle East, and
Oceania, and what lessons Europe can
draw from those experiences. More
recently, in spring 2016, experts from
Europe, North America, and Australia
gathered to discuss how greater mobility
and interconnectedness of migrants and
diasporas with both countries of origin
and destination affect our policies and
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practices of integration, as well as our
models of citizenship and belonging.
The ‘Cultural Pluralism Area’ of the
Programme seeks to elaborate and simplify
the complex realities of international
migration and provide results that can
inform current and future policy making
at the national and transnational level.
The Global Governance Programme is
also regularly represented in events and
debates on trade and investment at the
World Trade Organisation (WTO), the
United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development (UNCTAD), the
International Trade Centre and leading
think tanks. It acts for example as the
knowledge partner for the International
Centre for Trade and Sustainable
Development (ICTSD)/World Economic
Forum (WEF) Expert-15 group on
trade and regulatory cooperation, which
brings together leading scholars and
practitioners.
The Programme also serves as a venue
for offline deliberations between senior
trade and economic development
officials, including WTO Ambassadors
and managers of international agencies.
It maintains strong ties to Geneva-based
international organisations, and in 2015
it was selected as the only European
venue to reflect on the first 20 years of the
operation of the WTO Appellate Body.
Finally,
the
Global
Governance
Programme’s policy-focused engagement
is always based on research, frequently
undertaken as part of a consortium. For
example, the results of a collaborative
research project on the multilateral trading
system were the focus of discussion at the
2015 Trade and Development Symposium
at the Nairobi WTO ministerial meeting.
TRAININGS
ACADEMY OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
The Academy of Global Governance was
established to offer a unique executive
training model which combines academic
research-based knowledge and evidencebased practice. Its purpose is to combine
the forces of both academia and the
professional world. Thus, it brings together
young and mid-level professionals
from the EU institutions, international
organisations, national administrations,
non-governmental organisations and
private enterprises on the one hand, and
young promising academics (doctoral
and postdoctoral researchers) on the
other hand.
Since the first executive training course
in 2010, the Academy has built a global
community from a great variety of
sectors. More than 1,100 participants
were trained between 2010 and 2015.
By reflecting the four research areas of
the Global Governance Programme, the
courses cover a wide range of topics, such
as, for instance, WTO dispute settlement
mechanisms, institutions of regional
integration, European foreign and
security policy, etc.
The teaching staff of the Academy
include
leading
academics
from
universities and research centres such as
the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford,
Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard,
New York, the ASEAN Studies Centre
and the International Institute for
Environment and Development (IIED),
as well as officials from EU institutions,
national ministries, government agencies,
and international organisations such
Training Participants
23% National Governments,
Government Agencies
9% Think Tanks
6% Private Sector
4% NGOs
13% European Institutions
45% International
Organisations
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as the World Trade Organisation, the
United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development (UNCTAD), the US
State Department, the Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD), the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), the European
Court of Justice, and practitioners from
the business sector.
In 2014 the Academy expanded its offer
with ’tailor-made training’, which is
designed to fulfil specific institutional
training needs, geared towards either staff
professional advancement or towards
offering refresher courses. Building on
its expertise, and taking advantage of the
staff of the European University Institute
as well as of its wide network of experts,
the Academy can design customised
training course for junior, middle or
senior management officials on a variety
of global governance issues. The first of
this series of courses were addressed to
officials of the Italian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, to the International Trade Centre
(ITC), and to the UNCTAD.
Programmes and registration forms are
available at: Academy.eui.eu
MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES (MOOCS)
In 2016, the Global Governance
Programme launched three Massive
Open Online Courses (MOOCs). These
are online university courses that are
available and free of charge to anyone
who has Internet access. In offering
these courses, the Global Governance
Programme is working in partnership
with Iversity.org, a German company
supporting international scholars, with
the aim of providing a globally available
and interactive learning experience.
Iversity.org offers a customised and
specifically designed online teaching
platform, as well as the use of multimedia
formats and easy interaction between
students and instructors.
In March 2016, two courses entitled ‘Why
Do People Migrate?’, prepared by Anna
Triandafyllidou and Sabrina Marchetti,
were launched. The first course (Part 1:
Facts) provides a general introduction to
the situation of refugees, asylum seekers
and irregular migrants worldwide (data,
regions, etc.) and an overview of the
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terminology used. The second course
(Part 2: Theories) approaches migration as
a constant phenomenon in human history
and discusses the theoretical approaches
used to explain why migration starts and
why it continues. Theories cover both
individual and structural factors driving
migration.
In June 2016, Anna Triandafyllidou,
Sabrina Marchetti and Hara Kouki plan
to launch a new MOOC on ‘Cultures
and Identities in Europe. Past, Present
and Future.’ This course offers a general
introduction to the issue of ‘European
identity and culture’ and to EU policies
on cultural industries for students and
practitioners in the fields of the arts,
culture and heritage.
All courses are based on video-lectures,
didactic videos and podcast interviews
with international experts. Coursework
includes short quizzes for each unit
covered. Written assignments are based
on the readings suggested for each unit.
FELLOWS
JEAN MONNET AND MAX WEBER PROGRAMME FELLOWS
(ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/16)
Through the ‘Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme,’ the Global Governance
Programme offers one-year fellowships (renewable for one more year) to scholars who
have obtained their doctorate more than five years prior to the start of the fellowship.
The ‘Max Weber Programme’ is the largest international postdoctoral programme in
the Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe. The Programme offers Max Weber
fellowships to junior post-docs who have received a doctorate in economics, law,
history, social and political sciences or a related field within the last five years.
European, Transnational and Global Governance
Robert Ian Cooper is
a Jean Monnet Fellow
and studies questions
related to democracy
and constitutionalism in
the European Union, with a particular
focus on the role of national parliaments.
He has previously held positions at the
University of Cambridge, University
of Oslo, and University of Toronto. A
Canadian, he has a PhD in Political
Science from Yale University. He has
lectured widely, and has spoken at
the European Parliament, the United
Kingdom House of Commons, and the
Swedish Riksdag. He is writing a book
making the argument that national
parliaments should be understood
as a ‘virtual third chamber’ within
the political system of the EU, in that
they collectively perform many of the
functions of a parliamentary chamber
at the EU level, even though they do not
meet in the same physical location. This
study will show how these developments
have fundamentally altered the structure
of democratic politics in the EU.
FELLOWS
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Lora Anne Viola is a
Jean Monnet Fellow
and is on leave from the
Freie Universität, Berlin,
where she is Assistant
Professor in the Politics
Department of the John F. Kennedy
Institute. She received a PhD in Political
Science from the University of Chicago,
a Master’s Degree in International
Relations from the University of
Chicago, and a Bachelor’s Degree in
Political Science and Economics from
Columbia University. Previously, she was
a Senior Research Fellow at the Social
Sciences Research Center, Berlin and a
visiting scholar at Stanford and Oxford
Universities. Her research project on
‘Groupification and the Transformation
of Governance Institutions’ investigates
the institutional ‘coping mechanisms’
that actors turn to under conditions
of actor heterogeneity. It argues that
under conditions of multipolarity and
actor heterogeneity, we should expect
governance institutions to prefer selective
membership rules, informal designs and
network governance.
Konstantin Vössing is
a Jean Monnet Fellow
and is on leave from his
position at Humboldt
University in Berlin.
He received his PhD
in Political Science from Ohio State
University in August 2008, specialising
in Comparative Politics and Political
Psychology. He was previously a John F.
Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center
for European Studies (CES) at Harvard
University, and Lecturer in Political
Science and International Studies at Ohio
State University for the academic year
2008/09. His current research project
on ‘The Formation of Public Opinion
about European Integration’ analyses
the influence that political elites exercise
on public opinion about European
integration. He argues that political elites
can transform citizen attitudes, while
the effectiveness of their efforts is highly
contingent on the political explanations
they use to justify their positions, the
features of their varying audiences, and
the dynamic nature of party competition.
Tobias Lenz is a Max
Weber Fellow and
is currently on leave
Goettingen, Germany,
and the German Institute
of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg,
where he is Assistant Professor of
Global Governance and Comparative
Regionalism. He holds a DPhil in
International Relations and an MPhil in
Politics, both from Oxford University. He
has held research positions at the Free
University of Amsterdam, the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the
University of Colorado at Boulder
and the Free University of Berlin.
His research project on ‘Under What
Conditions Do Regional Organizations
Evolve Institutionally?’ investigates the
conditions under which states are willing
to delegate supranational authority
to regional organisations. It seeks to
contribute to unravelling the underlying
causes of this empirical observation
by leveraging both quantitative
and qualitative methods and new
systematically comparative data.
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Global
Global Governance
Governance Programme
Programme
Global Economics: Trade, Investment and Development
Sylvanus Kwaku
Afesorgbor is a Max
Weber Fellow and
affiliated Researcher at
Tuborg Research Centre
for Globalisation and
Firms, Aarhus University, Denmark.
He obtained his PhD in Economics
and Business from Aarhus University
in 2015. He obtained his Master in
Economics of Development from the
Erasmus University of Rotterdam, and
his Bachelor in Economics and Statistics
from the University of Ghana.
His research project on ‘Economic
Sanctions, International Trade and
Political Regimes’ draws on established
theoretical works in international
political economy to compare the
empirical impacts of the threat of
economic sanctions to the those of
actual imposition of economic sanctions
on international trade under different
political regimes. His results show that
the impact of threatened sanctions differs
qualitatively and quantitatively from that
of imposed sanctions.
Europe in the World
James Reilly is a Jean
Monnet Fellow and
Associate Professor
in the Department
of Government and
International Relations at the University
of Sydney. He holds a PhD from the
George Washington University and an
MA from the University of Washington,
and was a postdoctoral research fellow
at the University of Oxford. He served
as the East Asia Representative of the
American Friends Service Committee
in China from 2001-2008. His research
project on ‘Chinese Carrots and Sticks:
Beijing’s Economic Statecraft in Europe’
draws on Chinese and European
economic data, policy documents
and interviews to examine how China
engages in economic statecraft across
Europe, and to compare China’s
effectiveness over time and across
countries. He is affiliated to the ‘Global
Economics’ research area.
Nadav Kedem is a
Max Weber Fellow
and holds a PhD in
from the University
of Haifa (Israel). After completing his
PhD, he was a visiting scholar at the
Hebrew University and the Bundeswehr
University (Munich). His current
research projects are on ‘Status-Seeking
by European Powers’ and ‘Humanitarian
Interventions as a Status-Seeking Tool.’
While the first of these is an attempt to
better understand, identify and predict
the status-seeking policies of major
European powers after the end of the
Cold War, the second one focuses on
filling a gap in the literature, where status
considerations are largely neglected
by human rights scholars, leading to a
limited understanding of the process
that leads to humanitarian interventions,
while status scholars do not give enough
weight to human rights.
FELLOWS
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Cultural Pluralism
Heather Grabbe is a
Jean Monnet Fellow
and is currently on
sabbatical from the Open
Society European Policy
Institute in Brussels.
She was previously Senior Advisor
to the European Commissioner for
Enlargement, responsible in his Cabinet
for the Balkans and Turkey, and has
been Deputy Director of the Centre for
European Reform. Her academic career
includes teaching at the London School
of Economics and research at Oxford and
Birmingham universities and Chatham
House. Her current research project on
‘Inside the Black Box: Policy-Making at
EU Level During the Migration Crisis’
looks at the dynamics of decisionmaking during the migration crisis since
summer 2015 as experienced by senior
policy-makers in the EU institutions.
She is undertaking a qualitative study
of policy-makers’ own understandings
of the role of trust and values, how they
have been articulated in policy decisions
in the pressured environment of crisis,
and the implications for the future of
European integration.
Aitana Guia is a Max
Weber Fellow and
holds a PhD in History
from York University,
Toronto, Canada, where
she was associated with
the Canadian Centre for German and
European Studies and the Centre for
Refugee Studies. She holds two Bachelor
degrees, in Law and History, from the
University of Valencia, Spain, and a
Master in Ethnicity and Nationalism
from the London School of Economics
and Political Science. Her research
project on ‘Nativism, Human Rights,
and the New Discourses of Xenophobia
in Southern Europe’ is a study of
contemporary nativism in Spain and
Italy, its effects on the political process,
and ultimately its concrete impacts on
the rights of religious minorities. Guia
is analysing what triggers nativism
and what makes it wither; how
nativist discourses in southern Europe
resemble and differ from their closest
kin in northern Europe and North
America; and how these discourses have
assimilated the traditional New Left
concerns for women’s rights, secularism,
and the rights of sexual minorities.
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Global
Global Governance
Governance Programme
Programme
MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE (AND SIMILAR)
(ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/16)
The European University Institute acts as a host institution for Marie SkłodowskaCurie Fellowships, which are awarded by the European Commission. Some of these
fellows are hosted in the framework of the Global Governance Programme.
Through ‘Robert Schuman Fellowships’ the programme also invites established
academics with an international reputation to pursue their research at the Centre for
a period of three to ten months. Furthermore, established post-doctoral scholars who
work in one of the core research areas of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced
Studies can apply to spend a research period at the Centre and be affiliated to the Global
Governance Programme as visiting fellows.
MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE FELLOW
Francesca Scrinzi holds
a position as a Senior
Lecturer in Sociology
at the University of
Glasgow, UK, and is an
associated member of the
French Research Centre on Gender Work
and Mobilities of the National Centre for
Scientific Research. Since 2001, she has
carried out ethnographic comparative
research work on migrant domestic/care
workers in Italy and France. Her research
project on ‘MIGRANTCHRISTIANITY.
Migration, Religion and Work in
Comparative Perspective: Evangelical
‘ethnic churches’ in Southern Europe’
focuses on how Evangelical migrants use
religion and church-related networks to
seek employment, pursue social mobility,
construct respectability and resist racism.
This research aims to contribute to our
understanding of the role of minority
religions in migrant integration or
marginalisation, and how migration
is reconfiguring Italian and Spanish
societies through the production of
new understandings of Christianity that
challenge the Catholic majority religion,
as well as dominant views of migrant
religion only being Islam.
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Daniela DeBono Ph.D.
(Sussex) is Marie Curie
COFAS Fellow at the
Global Governance
Programme. She is
also Senior Lecturer
in International Migration and Ethnic
Relations (IMER) at the Department
of Global Political Studies, Malmö
University (Sweden). Daniela is the
country expert for Malta at the EUDO
Citizenship Observatory, and the
Country of Origin contact person for
Malta for the Rights in Exile Programme,
an international resource for legal aid
for refugees. Her project on ‘Daily
encounters at the border: reception in the
EU and irregular migrants arriving by
sea’ examines the reception of irregular
migrants in Italy, Malta and Greece,
Member States which lie on the two
most important routes for irregular entry
into the EU - the Central and Eastern
Mediterranean Maritime routes. This
study will generate an ethnography of
the everyday implementation of the
reception activity on the ground by
studying the interaction between state
and NGO officials, and migrants.
Katie Kuschminder
Ph.D. (Maastricht) is a
Rubicon Research Fellow,
with the Netherlands
Organisation for
Scientific Research
(NWO) at the Global Governance
Programme. She is a Researcher in
Migration Studies at Maastricht Graduate
School of Governance/ United Nations
University- MERIT wherein her work
focuses on return, irregular, and transit
migration. Her research project at Global
Governance Programme will examine
irregular migrants decision making
factors in Italy including the decision to
apply for asylum and/or migrate onwards
from Italy, and how these decisions do
or do not change over time. This results
of this study will make a contribution
to further understanding the different
factors influencing irregular migrants
decisions, and in particular the role of
policies in these decisions.
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PROGRAMME STAFF
Elena Cau (Project
Manager) joined the
Programme in February
2016. She holds a BA in
Humanities as well as
a Master in Diplomatic
Studies (University of Westminster,
Diplomatic Academy of London,
UK) and another in European Studies
(University of Florence).
She worked as Project Manager of
European Commission-funded projects
in the private sector in Brussels for
several years before becoming an EC
official in 2008 and taking up service
at the DG Research. She joined the
European University Institute in 2010
as Financial Officer and the Robert
Schuman Centre in March 2012 as
Assistant Project Manager.
Matthias Kindel
(Training Coordinator)
is in charge of the
Academy’s Executive
Training Seminars. He
holds a BA in Political
Science as well as an MA in European
Studies, both from FU Berlin. During
his studies he was an intern at the
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, a humanitarian
NGO in Padua, and at the Permanent
Representation of Germany to the EU in
Brussels. After graduation, he worked as
a seminar organiser for diplomats within
the German Federal Foreign Office and
at the Centre International de Formation
Européenne in Nice and Berlin,
before joining the Programme team in
September 2014.
PROGRAMME STAFF
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Elena Torta
(Communications
Specialist) has over
fifteen years of
professional experience
in different international
organisations, such as the European
Commission, Médecins Sans Frontières
and Science Europe. After graduating
in Communications Sciences at the
University of Siena in 1998, she moved
to Brussels for a traineeship at the
European Commission. Over time she
combined her different professional skills
as editor, press officer, web manager
and communications advisor with her
passion for both research and human
rights. Whilst working, she successfully
undertook post-graduate studies in
human rights and migration and asylum
law. She joined the Programme in April
2016.
Valentina Bettin
(Administrative
Assistant) graduated
in Political Sciences –
and was awarded a
prize for best student in 2000. She
obtained her PhD in International Law
at the European University Institute in
2005. She worked as Project Manager
for the EU project Moveact on mobile
EU citizens. She joined the European
University Institute in 2009 as Project
Coordinator for the European Union
Democracy Observatory (EUDO) and
she became Administrative Assistant
for EUDO and the Global Governance
Programme in April 2015.
Mia Saugman
(Administrative
Assistant) holds a BA
in Geography and
Spanish as well as an
MA in Intellectual
History and the History of Social and
Political Thought, both obtained at the
University of Sussex. Mia also studied
at the Universidad de Salamanca as an
Erasmus student. Before joining the
Programme in September 2012, she
worked as European Customer Service
Representative at Genesys Conferencing
in the UK, followed by a year and a half
as an English language instructor, and
subsequently as Administrative Assistant
to various professors at the European
University Institute.
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CONTACTS
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Email: [email protected]
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