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Fariborz Zelli and Ina Möller organized international workshop on complexity in global governance
Published 19 December 2017
Fariborz Zelli and Ina Möller convened a workshop on ‘Theory and Methods of Institutional Complexity in Global Governance’ in Duisburg Germany, 30 November – 1 December 2017. Participants included leading international experts on this topic such as Kenneth Abbott, Lasse Gerrits, Jessica Green, Peter Haas, Philip Haynes and Sebastian Oberthür.
Global governance today is increasingly characterized by a proliferation of both intergovernmental and transnational institutions. Although the importance of this development is widely recognized, complexity in global governance still poses significant challenges in terms of theory and methodology. Some of these challenges go back to a core question: how can we navigate an increasingly complex political environment to address urgent transboundary problems?
We still know too little about the main drivers behind this increasing complexity, its differences across policy fields, or its consequences for crucial governance aspects like legitimacy of effectiveness.
The workshop brought together scholars from research traditions as different as international relations, complexity sciences, institutional economics and network analysis, to name but a few. It identified suitable theories and methods, as well as conflicts and synergies between them that are fundamental in moving the research on institutional complexity in global governance forward.
The workshop was hosted and financed by the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, with further organizational and financial support from Fariborz’s and Ina’s Formas project, the Lund-based Earth System Governance Project and the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
