Global Governance, Regionalism & The role of the EU: The Institutional Dimension

Since the early 90’s, international institutions have undergone a resurgence, illustrated both by major proliferation of regional initiatives as well as by a growing call for re-invigorated Global Governance mechanisms. These two parallel evolutions have proven to be significant signs of the changing necessities born from evolving dynamics of cooperation and discord within the international system.

The up-coming seminar will strive to study the institutional implications of such an emerging multileveled multilateral world order, on the basis of both historical as well as topical perspectives, without neglecting key theoretical and empirical considerations.

While particular attention will be paid to the significance of the recent institutional debate within the European Union, the Ph.D. School will also focus on other institutional arrangements -at the global and regional level- which have come to face questions resulting from a new world order.

A series of questions will be posed as the institutional dimension of the international system will be analysed from a variety of angles. The debates will focus on the nature of the different institutional actors, processes and settlements on the world stage. The theoretical issues born from of the evolving balance between national State sovereignty and supranational/ transnational limitations & constraints will form a leitmotiv throughout the seminar.

The key existing global and regional institutions will be studied through their specificities as well as through their contribution to global governance. The Ph.D. workshop will therefore be divided into five daily topics, each one grouping two sessions.

The seminar will bring together about 25 Ph.D. students involved in all fields related to Global Governance & Regionalism who share a common concern for the importance and impact of international institutions and nurturing new and innovative thinking on these matters.

Participants as well as paper-givers will be selected by the Academic Council amongst the submitted applications on the basis of quality and relevance.

The seminar was held in Brussels from the 9th – 13th of June 2008

• ‘How to reduce the democratic deficit of the European Central Bank? Lessons from the inflation targeting regime’, Emmanuel Carré
• ‘The MFN Clause in the EPA’, Michanne Haynes-Prempeh
• ‘The European Union in the United Nations: Institutionalization beyond Intergovernmentalism’, Barbara Krippl
• ‘The construction of the European monetary order: A historical account’, Hanna Lierse
• ‘The Discourse of EU’s Power and its Mediterranean Policy’, Song Lilei
• ‘A move away from geopolitics in Central Asia: A call for a move to institutions’, Ikboljon Qoraboyev
• ‘The UN Security Council Reform and the EU’s Common Foreign Policy’, Sardor Usmanov

• ‘Regionalism in World Politics: Past and Present’, Louise Fawcett
• ‘Regional Institutions’, Louise Fawcett
• ‘Regional Actorship and Regional Agency: Comparative Perspectives’, Björn Hettne
• ‘The Ongoing Institutional Reform Process of the European Union: EU-Reform Legitimacy’, Transparency and Accountability, Jean-Victor Louis
• ‘The External Dimension of EU-Reform: Evolving Legitimacy and Efficiency of the EU‘s Foreign Policy Machinery’, Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet
• ‘Challenges facing the reform of the UN-system and its institutional reform efforts’, Paul Taylor
• ‘Global Financial Architecture, Legitimacy, and Representation: Voice for Emerging Markets’, Geoffrey R. D. Underhill
• ‘The Political Economy of Basle II: The Costs for Poor Countries’, Geoffrey R. D. Underhill
• ‘Setting the rules: private power, political underpinnings, and legitimacy in global monetary and financial governance’, Geoffrey R. D. Underhill
• ‘Norms, Legitimacy, and Global Financial Governance’, Geoffrey R. D. Underhill

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