Network members
UNU-CRIS
The United Nations University research and training programme on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) is one of the 14 decentralised units of the United Nations University (Tokyo, Japan), a global institution engaged in research and capacity development to support the universal goals of the UN and generate new knowledge and ideas. Founded in 2001 and based in Bruges (Belgium), UNU-CRIS specialises in the comparative study of regional integration, monitoring and assessing regional integration worldwide and in the study of interactions between regional organisations and global institutions. Its aim is to generate new and policy-relevant knowledge about new forms of governance and co-operation, and to contribute to capacity building on issues of integration, particularly in developing countries. UNU-CRIS is financed by the Flemish Government (Belgium) and has strong institutional ties with the College of Europe (Bruges and Natolin), an academic institute of excellence on postgraduate European Studies.
University of Warwick
Inaugurated in 1997, the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) at the University of Warwick is the oldest and largest academic centre in Europe dealing with this subject area. CSGR is a designated research site of the UK Economic and Social Research Council, which has provided core funding in two five-year phases (1997-2002 and 2002-2007). CSGR is a multidisciplinary project. Its staff and associates are drawn from the fields of Anthropology, Business, Economics, Law, Politics and Sociology. Likewise, the Centre’s seminars, conferences and other projects generally draw participants from several disciplines. The research agenda of CSGR highlights issues of the definition, measurement, impacts, and policy implications of globalisation and regionalisation. More specifically, much of the Centre’s research concentrates on questions such as comparative regionalisms, the political economy of global and regional finance and trade, civil society in globalisation and regionalisation, and security issues in globalisation and regionalisation. CSGR research spans all regions of the world, as well as relations between them.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/csgr/
University of Gothenburg
The University of Gothenburg is one of the leading and largest Universities in Sweden. It attracts more than 40,000 students and has a staff of more than 5,000. As an organisational unit within the university structure aimed at global and regional studies, the School of Global Studies (SGS) is the first of its kind in Sweden. SGS comprises the units/disciplines of Peace and Development Research (Padrigu), Social Anthropology, Human Ecology, Regional Studies (including the Centre for African, Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern Studies), the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Centre for Global Gender Studies.
Forum on the Problems of Peace and War
Founded in 1984, the “Forum per i Problemi della Pace e della Guerra” (Forum on the Problems of Peace and War) is an independent, non-profit, interdisciplinary research centre, comprised of social and natural scientists. Its Board of Directors include internationally recognised scholars based in major Italian Universities. In addition the institute’s activities involve foreign scholars. The Forum organises multidisciplinary research on issues such as globalisation and environmental conflicts, values and principles in EU’s external relations, fundamentalisms and democracy, the transformation of war, identity and conflicts, globalisation and conflicts in the Mediterranean. The forum is also involved in educational activities (postgraduate courses), the organisation of conferences and lectures on topics of international politics, and the promotion of public debate. As a consequence of the amount and quality of its research and publications over the last 20 years, the Forum is recognised as one of the leading institutes in the area of international conflict studies.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
The Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies (‘the Centre’) is an interdisciplinary research centre of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. It was set up in the spring of 2007 to promote, support and carry out high-quality international, innovative and interdisciplinary research on global governance. The Centre initiates and encourages research initiatives around which University researchers join forces across disciplines (law, economics, political science) to address critical issues in relation to globalisation, governance processes and multilateralism, with a particular focus on the following areas: (i) the European Union and global multilateral governance; (ii) trade and sustainable development; (iii) peace and security, including conflict prevention, crisis management and peacebuilding; (iv) human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Specifically in relation to the topic of European Union and Multilateral Global Governance the Centre conducts research on the role of the EU in multilateral global governance arrangements by way of using an interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional approach.
Centre for International Governance Innovation
CIGI was founded in 2002 to address international governance challenges by supporting research, fostering exchange among experts and leaders in the private and public sectors, and providing informed advice to decision-makers on multilateral governance issues. To achieve its ambitious mandate, CIGI supports research initiatives by recognised experts and promising academics; forms networks that link world class minds across disciplines; informs and shapes the dialogue among scholars, opinion leaders, key policy-makers, and the concerned public; and builds capacity by supporting excellence in policy-related scholarship. As a leading international think tank, CIGI is working to deepen intellectual resources in support of the overall effectiveness and legitimacy of multilateral policy-making. Led by a group of experienced practitioners and distinguished academics, CIGI brings an international and interdisciplinary approach to knowledge exchange on current global economic, institutional, diplomatic and security issues. CIGI's primary research objective is to anticipate and further understand emerging trends in international governance, particularly economic and financial governance, and to strengthen multilateral institutions. These objectives are carried out through the sponsoring and hosting of conferences, seminars, workshops, presentations, working papers and book publications.
Institute for Security Studies
The Institute for Security Studies is an independent applied policy research institute established in 1992. As a leading African peace and security research institute the ISS seeks to conceptualise, inform and enhance the debate on human security in Africa. It has a head office located in Pretoria, South Africa under the directorship of Dr. Jakkie Cilliers. The ISS has four offices: Pretoria, Cape Town, Addis Ababa and Nairobi and each office houses a number of programmes. The Programmes in the Pretoria Office are: Arms Management Programme, The Regional Programme, The Defence Sector Programme, African Situational Analysis Programme, Training for Peace and the Crime and Justice Programme. The Cape Town Office houses the Organised Crime and Money Laundering and the Corruption and Governance Programmes, Addis has a programme on counter terrorism and one on direct conflict prevention whilst the Nairobi office concentrates on monitoring the African peer review mechanism through its African Human Security Initiative programme and runs programmes on cattle rustling and environmental security. The work of these programmes involve, applied research, capacity building, training, monitoring trends and awareness raising.
Peking University
The School of International Studies (SIS) of Peking University is the first such school set up in Chinese universities. SIS was officially formed in 1998 but has its origin dating back to 1960. China’s Vice-Premier Qian Qichen served as SIS’ first dean and has remained its honorary dean since he officially retired from government. SIS is organised into Department of International Politics, Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs Management, Department of International Political Economy, Institute of International Relations, Institute of Afro-Asian Studies, and Institute of World Socialism. SIS is the country’s premier teaching and research platform devoted to the training of specialised talents in international studies, international political economy and diplomacy. Its aim is to be the leading conduit for scholarly communication between China and the rest of the world. SIS is also institutional home to the Center for International and Strategic Studies (CISS), Peking University, founded in May 2007. The Center strives to enhance academic and policy research in the fields of world politics, international security, and national strategies. Its emphasis is to provide analyses of China’s changing international environments and the major powers’ international strategies, and to publish or submit policy-relevant, future-oriented works based on these analyses. CISS attempts to offer intellectual support to China’s international strategy formulation, to enrich teaching, and to help the general public understand national security and global issues in a more comprehensive, accurate, and rational way.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society (CSEPS) was established in 2003 at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in order to promote a greater awareness within Israel of the growing importance of the European Union, and to offer BGU students and faculty members the opportunity to learn and research more about contemporary political and social developments in Europe. CSEPS activities cover a variety of different areas, such as developing links with European institutions and launching collaborative research projects with Euro-Mediterranean colleagues. CSEPS organizes international conferences and workshops, bringing European researchers, diplomats and political figures to BGU.