Research Turned Into Action the Global Governance Programme
ROBERT SCHUMAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES RESEARCH TURNED INTO ACTION The Global Governance Programme FOREWORD The Global Governance Programme, with its re- “A New Governance for the European Union and the search, policy and training dimensions, provides a Euro: Democracy and Justice”. European setting to conduct research at the highest The GGP is also proud of having, among its research level and promote synergies between research and projects, the Globalisation Database (GDB) that col- policy-making, to generate ideas and to identify crea- lects and unites statistical resources on trends and in- tive and innovative solutions to global challenges. dicators of globalisation. Indicators not only measure In 2012, the Programme significantly enriched its re- and describe reality, but also have the potential to steer search dimension introducing four research strands and direct political, administrative and institutional – Modes of Global Governance, International Trade behaviour in the areas in which they are applied. For Observatory, Development, and Climate Govern- this reason, their emergence and application in global ance. The research strands mirror the cross-relation governance is increasingly recognised as one of the and cross-fertilisation necessary, now more than ever, complex modes of “governance without government” for true global governance. Co-ordinated by leading at global level, and their analysis is hence an urgent scholars, over the past year, the strands have brought demand. together global thinkers and actors of the calibre of In 2013, the GGP High-Level Policy Seminars will of- Lawrence Lessig, Ben Hammersley, and Thomas C. fer even more opportunities for the worlds of research Heller, to mention but a few, to analyse and discuss and policy to dialogue and put forward solutions to respectively, new forms of political participation, issues such as the prospect of the Euratom Treaty ap- the role of the Internet in social trends, and climate proach in the Middle East, gender quotas at global change.
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