Europe and Global Challenges
Bewilligungen / Grants 2011
Challenges of European External Energy Governance with Emerging Powers: Meeting Tiger, Dragon, Lion and Jaguar
Bewilligung: 04.03.2011 Laufzeit: 3 Jahre
The project involves experts of European and overseas thinktanks and focuses on two major global challenges that the EU is currently facing: First, the establishment of a multipolar world order with emerging powers as prospective cooperation partners; and second, the strategic and ecological shortcomings of the EU's External Energy Policy. Research is being carried out in three steps: Identifying differences in the normative orientation, governance and bargaining strategies of the EU's energy policy towards China, India, Brazil, and South Africa. Explaining these differences with reference to the EU/member states and private actors interests, different Directorate General responsibilities, emerging powers policy styles and exit-options of the emerging powers through regional/multilateral embeddedness. Offering recommendations for a future "Good External Energy Governance". Here, the project will outline concrete policy options for "decarbonization strategies" in an increasingly multipolar world.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Fachbereich 2: Gesellschafts- und Geschichtswissenschaften
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Prof. Dr. Michèle Knodt
Residenzschloss
64283 Darmstadt
Tel.: 06151 16 2442
Fax: 06151 16 4602
Homepage: http://www.politikwissenschaft.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=pw_knodt
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Europe's Global Linkages and the Impact of the Financial Crisis: Policies for Sustainable Trade, Capital Flows, and Migration
Bewilligung: 04.03.2011 Laufzeit: 3 Jahre
Successful integration into global markets is widely viewed as a precondition for sustainable economic growth in Europe. The financial crisis since 2007 has damaged Europe's global linkages in the form of international trade, direct investment, capital flows, and labor migration. The threat of a lasting setback presents the policy community at the national, European, and global level with the challenge of creating favorable conditions for a return to growth-enhancing global economic integration, beyond the financial sector reforms currently discussed. To inform such policies, the project addresses three closely related questions: How are international trade and direct investment affected by financial integration and potentially tighter restrictions on bank lending due to the financial crisis? How are international banking operations emerging from the crisis? How is international labor migration related to international trade and investment, and how will tighter immigration policies since the crisis affect trade and investment?
Institut für Angewandte
Wirtschaftsforschung e.V., Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Claudia Buch
Ob dem Himmelreich 1
72074 Tübingen
Tel.: 07071 989624
Fax: 07071 989699
Homepage: http://www.iaw.edu/iaw/De:Team:Claudia_Buch
Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der
Universität Kiel
Zentrum Fördermittel
Dr. Matthias Lücke
Düsternbrooker Weg 120
24105 Kiel
Tel.: 0431 8814 497
Homepage: http://www.uni-kiel.de/ifw/staff/luecke.htm
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The challenge of globalization: Technology driven foreign direct investment (TFDI) and its implications for the negotiation of International (bi and multilateral) Investment Agreements
This project deals with the globalization of economic activities and its implications for the negotiation of international investment regimes. It is based on the premises that most discussions on international investment regimes have always begun with an institutional and organizational template - that of the GATT - and adjusting it to the needs of investment. Furthermore, they consider almost exclusively traditional forms of foreign direct investments (FDI) linked to the exploitation of advantages rather than on its acquisition. The later is the main driver of tech-based FDI (TFDI). This approach has systematically led to a failure of negotiations. A preferable approach is to first identify the key characteristics of TFDI as well as those institutional aspects that require concerted international action before placing them within an organizational framework. This is the approach chosen in this project.
This project aims at understanding the determinants of TFDI in order to inform policy makers in the European Union (EU) negotiating international investment agreements. This general objective can be divided into the following specific objectives: a) Understand the key characteristics of TFDI, both for MNCs from developed and developing countries through a comparative analysis across the globe; b) Understand how firm-characteristics as well as institutional conditions enable or constraint TFDI; c) Understand the interplay between private and public interests in TFDI and d) Discuss the implications of TFDI for the negotiation of multilateral investment agreements.
The project will run between 2011 and 2014 and involves partners from Sweden, Italy, Germany, India and China, with an extensive network in Latin America and Africa. It is funded by the Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Lund University
Dr. Cristina Chaminade
Professor in Innovation Studies
CIRCLE
PO Box 117
22100 Lund
E-Mail: cristina.chaminade@circle.lu.se
Homepage: http://www.lu.se/o.o.i.s/9683
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Which labour migration governance for a more dynamic and inclusive Europe?
Over the last decade the European Union has faced a strong growth of immigration that the global economic crisis has slowed but not stopped. The need for foreign labour in Europe remains structural and, as weak and slow the recovery may be, the demand for immigrant workers is deemed to increase, at least as a result of the native population ageing. However this general trend takes many different forms at national level: the relationship of each European country with immigration, and labour migration in particular, is strongly marked by specific historical, economic and political factors.
Which labour migration governance for a more dynamic and inclusive Europe? This is a vital question for the future competitiveness and cohesion of European societies. Yet, simply reviving the heterogeneous spectrum of national approaches, which have shown their limits in efficiency and sustainability, may not be the answer. A fundamental rethinking of labour migration governance thus emerges as one of the key challenges for Europe’s future.
The research project has two overarching goals:
1. To produce a detailed and dynamic analysis of the structure and functioning of European governance in the field of labour migration (also through analytical monitoring of its possible evolution in the post-crisis phase);
2. To suggest strategies and solutions that the different actors involved could enact in the medium and long term in order to strengthen the effectiveness of migration policies with respect to goals of economic dynamism and social cohesion.
The project will run between 2011 and 2014 and involves partners from Belgium (EPC in Brussels) and Italy (ITC-ILO in Turin). It is funded by the Compagnia di San Paolo.
FIERI – Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerca sull’Immigrazione
Project Coordinator: Ferruccio Pastore
Via Ponza 3, 10121, Torino
Tel.: +39 011 5160044
Fax: +39 011 5176062
E-Mail: ferruccio.pastore@fieri.it / fieri@fieri.it
Homepage: http://fieri.it/which_labour_migration_governance_for_a_more_dynamic_and_inclusive_europe_lab_mig_gov_eng.php
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Technological trajectories for climate change mitigation in China, Europe and India
The urgent need to mitigate climate change demands for technological development. Europe is in a strong position to advance the relevant technologies. However, Europe's ability to make a difference to climate change depends on involving China and India in the search for and application of technical solutions. This is difficult because the economic conditions and political pressures in India and China are very different from those in Europe. Based on these considerations the project addresses two main questions:
a) How and why do the emerging technological trajectories for climate change mitigation in Europe, China and India differ?
b) What are the implications for related strategies of international competition and cooperation at the enterprise and government level?
The research will be carried out by integrating different disciplines and methods and by concentrating the empirical analysis on two sectors: wind energy and electric vehicles.
Cooperating partners:
Institute of Development Studies (Sussex)
IIT Delhi
School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University (Beijing)
The project is funded by the Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik/ German Development Institute (DIE)
Projektleitung: Dr. Doris Fischer
Tulpenfeld 6
53113 Bonn
Tel.: 0228 94927 236
Fax: 0228 94927 130
E-mail: doris.fischer@die-gdi.de
Homepage: www.die-gdi.de
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A Twenty-First Century Concert of Powers
The project aims at finding ways to manage the power transition in the international system, notably the rise of China and India, in a peaceful and productive way and to define the role and options of the European Union in the process. It utilizes the nineteenth century "European Concert" as a template for this purpose, as the Concert is possibly the only historical model of a non-hegemonic peaceful order between great powers that lasted for a significant period. To work in our time, the template needs to be amended and further developed before it can be usefully applied. To be adequate, it has to include procedural and normative arrangements able to incorporate great powers with different normative systems and competing justice claims into a joint project of war prevention.
Our research has to focus on the actual policies of the relevant powers of yesterday and today (what are/were their interests, values, aims and practices; are they "Concert material"?). That means taking into account: a) supposed justifiable/legitimate claims to status and participation articulated by the great powers in their interactions;
b) conceptions of a just world order; and
c) national interests.
At the same time we cannot forgo the analytical level of power interaction and the question of which norms, procedures and institutions are necessary to foster a Concert environment.
The three-year project is conducted by an international study group that comprises a senior and postdoctoral member from Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia, China and India, respectively. Apart from academic publication, it is expected to result in a policy-oriented concept of a viable multilateral order for the 21th century as well as in a blueprint for Eurpean policy to foster this objective. The project is funded by the Compagnia di San Paolo.
Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung/Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Geschäftsführendes Vorstandsmitglied
Prof. Dr. Harald Müller
Baseler Straße 27-31
60329 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.: 069 959104 0
Fax: 069 558481
Homepage: http://www.hsfk.de/Ein-Maechtekonzert-fuer-das-21-Jahrhundert.763.0.html?&L=1
