Risks and Opportunities in the Civil Society Public Institutions Relationship

Programme of the conference

Risks and Opportunities in the Civil Society – Public Institutions Relationship Re-Assessing the EU and Global Policy Process

LUISS University – School of Government and Department of Political Science

7-9 May 2015

LUISS - Campus viale Pola 12, Rome, Italy

Provisional (II draft 3-May-18)

1 In the complex system of global politics, the relationship between governmental and non- governmental actors is more and more central. In the last decades, global governance has provided civil society organizations with new opportunities to influence public decisions at the international level. Civil society actors are present in different forms in all the phases of the international policy process: in the agenda setting, in the policy decision, implementation, monitoring, and finally in the policy evaluation. From the preliminary consultations of think tanks and interest groups in the agenda setting of many issues in the EU governance to the participation of indigenous and peasant groups to the revised Food Security Committee at FAO. As experts in different private standard setting bodies such as ICANN, and as stakeholders in hybrid global initiative such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria that includes philanthropic foundations, grassroots organizations and firms. In the implementation of so many international public services, often through the formula of Private-Public Partnership (PPP), from disaster relief to development aid and democracy promotion, as well as in the monitoring and assessment of many international public policies such as those on human rights. Last but not least in political significance, in less formalized contexts, the relationship between governments and non-governmental actors is equally very intense. Suffice to think about the Syrian or the Ukrainian conflicts and the role of rebel, combatant, and terrorist groups in it, often with strong identitarian or religious connotations. “Civil” and “uncivil” society is ubiquitous, and at time decisive, though its participation remains often very controversial.

The aim of the conference is discuss the different and many faces of the relationship between civil society actors and public institutions, both governmental and intergovernmental ones. The conference goals is to gather both scholars and practitioners in a single dialogue inclusive but larger than the mainstream western narrative. It is in fact a firm assumption of the conference that the civil society-public institutions dynamics is politically significant in all areas of the world. Both sides of the coin of the public/private relationship will be addressed: Presentations will deal with both the cooperative and the competitive/contentious relationship between governmental and non- governmental organizations in all the different phases of the policy process. Also, both legal and covered activities will be discussed.

Civil society has long been an object of study. Labelled differently as civil society organizations, non-governmental organizations, non-state actors, social movements, interest groups, third sector or the like, what has been a common theme underpinning all these approaches has been the tension with public institutions. Such relationship has at times been overlooked, but always remained important in analytical terms. Both as cooperation and as competition, the relationship between public and private actor is crucial in order to understand many of the political dynamics occurring in today’s global politics.

In scholarly terms, the conference aims to build bridges between different strands of academic and policy research that have looked at these actors under the differing lens of security, aid and development, public policy, global governance, contentious politics, democratization, human rights and democracy promotion, religious mobilizations, or public diplomacy.

2 The conference is the final event of the Jean Monnet Module on EU’s Engagement with Civil Society hold by prof. Raffaele Marchetti and funded by the European Commission, EACEA (contract n.: 529096-LLP-1-2012-1- IT-529096-AJM-MO)

Further financial support is generously provided by the US Embassy in Italy, LUISS Department of Political Science, and LUISS School of Government.

The conference is organized under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

3 7 May Thu Aula Colonne 14:30-17:00 Plenary Introduction; Welcome Remarks; Roundtable 17:00-17:30 Coffee 17:30-18:15 Plenary Cerny 18:15-19:30 Parallel EU hybrid coalitions in panels global governance 8 May Fri 9-10:15 Plenary Raouf + Fioramonti 10:15-10:45 Coffee 10:45-12:00 Parallel Dynamics of Development panels through Civil Society 12:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:15 Plenary Bob + Youngs 15:15-15:45 Coffee 15:45-17:00 Parallel EU democracy promotion panels 17:00-17:30 Coffee 17:30-18:45 Parallel Framing the public-private panels partnership

9 May Sat 9-10:15 Plenary Lebedeva + Deng 10:15-10:45 Coffee 10:45-12 Parallel The Risks of Revolutions panels

12-13 Plenary Concluding debate

4 Chair: tbd 7 May Thursday Hernan Manson - International Trade Centre A multi-stakeholder governance framework for improved value chain support policies, Food and Nutrition Security 14:30-17:00 Plenary (Aula Colonne) Yannick Fiedler - Sciences Po Civil Society Engagement in the Committee Welcome Remarks on World Food Security 2010-2014: From the Massimo Egidi - LUISS, Rector Promise of Participatory Democracy to Co- Optation? Introduction Nora McKeon - Independent Raffaele Marchetti - LUISS, Asst Professor The reformed Committee on World Food Security: a privileged laboratory for Roundtable assessing risks and opportunities in the civil Lapo Pistelli - Italy, Vice Minister for society-public institutions relationship Foreign Affairs Kathleen A. Doherty - USA, Deputy Chief of Mission (tbc) EU hybrid coalitions in global governance Giampaolo Di Paola – Italy, Former Minister (Room 102) of Defense Leonardo Morlino - LUISS Guido Carli, Chair: Maria Giulia Amadio - LUISS Vice-Rector for Research Pawel P. Pustelnik - Cardiff University Moderator Alessandro Amati – Askanews, Vice- Director European Commission’s sing‐along: civil

Public debate society as a last resort in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme debate

17:00-17:30 Coffee Cynthia Salloum - EHESS

The bargaining power of diasporas: risk and opportunity for EU foreign policy making 17:30-18:15 Plenary (Aula Colonne)

Philip Cerny - Rutgers University-Newark

Transnational Neopluralism in a Neoliberal World: The Limits of Global Public Policymaking

18:15-19:30 Parallel panels

Food governance (Aula Colonne)

5 Richard Youngs - Carnegie Europe 8 May Friday Trends in civil society support

9-10:15 Plenary (Aula Colonne) 15:15-15:45 Coffee Heba Raouf - University of Cairo The Societal, the Public and the Military: 15:45-17:00 Parallel panels Bringing Civility Back In Lorenzo Fioramonti - University of Pretoria EU democracy promotion (Aula Colonne) Beyond State, Market and Civil Society: A Chair: Daniele Archibugi – CNR New Approach to Governance Innovation Enrico Fassi - University of Bologna A new role for civil society in EU democracy 10:15-10:45 Coffee promotion? A theoretical view Gergana Noutcheva - Maastricht University 10:45-12:00 Parallel panels Societal Empowerment and Europeanisation: Revisiting the EU’s Impact on Political Communication by Civil Society Democratisation (Room 102) Valentina Gevorgyan - American University Chair: Antonio La Spina – LUISS of Armenia Melek Saral - University of Zurich Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum Discourses of Egyptian Women’s Rights Revisited NGOs Raffaele Marchetti, Paolo Peverini, Matteo Global-local nexus (Room 102) Cernison - LUISS/EUI Chair: Giovanni Moro – Fondaca Framing Transnational Mobilizations Maria Martin de Almagro - ULB/LUISS Kerstin Tomiak - Cardiff University UN missions and local civil society: Media effects on state capacity in conflict Necessary partners or strange bedfellows in prone societies peacebuilding? Valérie Julie Boiten - KUL Dynamics of Development through Civil The Outsider: Making Sense of Externally Society (Aula Colonne) Sponsored Rapprochements between Civil Chair: Nathalie Tocci - IAI Society and Local Authorities Igor Pellicciari - University of Salento Diana Margarit - Alexandru Ioan Cuza “Feeding the Trojan Horse” Public University International Aid to NGOs as a political tool Local Struggles and Global Rebounds. Civil of international relations" society vs. political authorities Chiara Pierobon – University of Bielefeld The new EU development agenda: empirical Public private partnership (Aula colonne 2) Chair: Daniele Gallo – LUISS evidence from Kazakhstan d’Etat Kunihiko Tatsuzawa, Satoko Daniela Irrera - University of Catania Kawamura - Ritsumeikan University NGOs and the EU emergencies response Global Civil Society and Global Law: Public policies: a quantitative analysis of the Private Partnership in Advanced Science and relations with States and EU institutions Technology Paolo Garonna, Matteo Cuda - LUISS, 12:00-14:00 Lunch FeBAP Banking Union and Capital Markets Union: 14:00-15:15 Plenary (Aula Colonne) the redefinition of the private and the public Clifford Bob - Duquesne University and the sector’s role in the EU Transatlantic Academy Giampiero Giacomello - University of Foreign Government Support for Threatened Bologna Civil Societies: Helpful or Harmful?

6 The Invisible Hand: Europe’s Public-Private Asymmetric patterns in the interest groups’ Partnership and the Security of Critical access to the EU policy-making: a Information infrastructures reassessment Aleksandra Lis, Piotr Stankiewicz, Agata 17:00-17:30 Coffee Stasik - Adam Mickiewicz University, Nicholas Copernicus University, Koźmiński 17:30-18:45 Parallel panels University Civil society vs. governments and EU-level Public-private partnership II (Aula Colonne) institution: The role of local protests in the Chair: Lyal S. Sunga (IDLO) European policy process on shale gas Nicoletta Pirozzi - IAI Promoting stability and development in Sub- Saharan Africa: fostering cooperation between the public and private sectors Nikita Konopaltsev - Moscow Lomonosov State University Civil Society-Public Institutions in the Frame of the Dialogue of Civilizations Theory Daniela Casula - Fondazione Patrizio Paoletti A global Government-Civil Society cooperative model in the light of the post- 2015 framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

Local cases (Room 102) Chair: Francesca Corrao - LUISS Tania Haddad - American University of Beirut State-Civil Society relationship: the case of Lebanon Silvia Menegazzi - LUISS From contentious engagement to policy entrepreneurs: discussing think tanks’ functions and limitations in contemporary China Dmytro Volodin - Polish Academy of Science The local authorities and citizens trust: case of participatory budgeting in Warsaw

EU-Interest Groups Interaction (Aula colonne 2) Chair: Giovanni Orsina - LUISS Marsida Bandilli - University of Antwerp Interest Groups Coalition Formation and the Degrees of Mobilization in Cross-Border Cooperation Programmes Giuseppe Montalbano - LUISS

7 9 May Saturday 12-13 Plenary (Aula Colonne) Concluding debate 9-10:15 Plenary (Aula Colonne) Raffaele Marchetti – LUISS Marina Lebedeva - MGIMO Resources of influence in world politics: states and non-state actors Chien-Chung Huang, Guosheng Deng, Yang Wang - Rutgers University; Tsinghua University The Relationship of NGOs and Government in China

10:15-10:45 Coffee

10:45-12 Parallel panels

The Risks of Revolutions (Aula Colonne) Chair: Melina Decaro - LUISS Angélica Rodríguez - Universidad del Norte The challenging identity of the social movements as strategy for opposition integration in the Color Revolutions, and its connection with a democratizing speech Mykhailo Minakov - University of Kyiv- Mohyla Academy The Third Sector entering The First. Cooperation and Competition of Civil Society, State and Oligarchs after Ukrainian Maidan Cecilia Sottilotta - LUISS Political Risk Perception by Governmental and Corporate Actors in the wake of the recent developments in the Mediterranean and Eurasian regions: thinking about a Theoretical Framework of Analysis

Patterns of societal influence on international organizations (Room 102) Chair: Mattia Guidi - LUISS Marcel Hanegraaff and Arlo Poletti - University of Amsterdam; LUISS How global is global governance? Sabrina Marchetti - EUI C189: a tool for States or for paid domestic workers? Examples from Ecuador and India Kseniya Oksamytna - LUISS / Universite Geneve The Role of Think Tanks and NGOs in Promoting the Agenda on the Protection of Civilians in Peacekeeping