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Workshop: Global Governance and the Theoretical Interregnum
29 September 2014
On 23 September, the GGI held a one-day roundtable workshop on 'Global Governance and the Theoretical Interregnum'.
The workshop provided an opportunity for scholars from across UCL, the UK and internationally to engage in a sharing of perspectives and insights on global governance research more broadly. The workshop forms part of the GGI's mission to advance a core research agenda on global governance.
A thought-provoking discussion took stock of the current state of the global governance art and identified new directions for theory-building beyond this 'interregnum' based on a constructive review of diverse descriptive, analytical and empirical applications of global governance from across disciplines and issue-areas, including climate regulation, engineering, geography, human rights, international relations, science and technology, among others.
The workshop showcased a collection of articles which look at global governance from a variety of perspectives with a view to spotlighting how theorising global governance is currently changing, what the most important challenges are, and what productive application to practice might look like. These will be published in a special edition of the journal Millennium co-convened by the Deputy Director of the IGG, Tom Pegram, and Michele Acuto, Senior Lecturer in Global Networks and Diplomacy at UCL. Publication is scheduled for early 2015 and the volume will be showcased on the GGI website.
Looking ahead, the GGI is committed to encouraging major intellectual activity on global governance in collaboration with colleagues from across UCL and beyond. The workshop discussion will feed into a developing research agenda which seeks advance cross-disciplinary and applied understandings of global governance with a view to addressing the major global public policy challenges of our age.
Workshop participants included:
- Michele Acuto, UCL
- Antoine Bousquet, Birkbeck University
- Madeline Carr, Aberystwyth University
- David Chandler, Westminster University
- Scott Hamilton, LSE
- Andrew Hurrell, University of Oxford
- Lee Jones, Queen Mary University of London
- Cora Lacatus, LSE
- Anthony Langlois, Flinders University
- Beverley Loke, University of Oxford
- Michael Mason, LSE
- Avia Pasternak, UCL
- Phillip Pattberg, Amsterdam University
- Tom Pegram, UCL
- Daniel Schade, LSE
- Joana Setzer, LSE
- Nick Srnicek, UCL
- David Williams, Queen Mary University of London
- Joanne Yeo, LSE
