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Global Governance Watch® (GGW) is a joint project of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. Its goal is to raise awareness about global governance, to monitor how international organizations influence domestic political outcomes, and to address issues of transparency and accountability […]

Managing Global Governance (MGG) is an initiative of Germany’s Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ), implemented jointly by InWEnt – Capacity Building International, Germany and German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), and complemented by the two-week programme International Futures by the Federal Foreign Office. Its purpose is […]

The Global Governance Project is a joint research programme of 13 European research institutions that seeks to advance understanding of the new actors, institutions and mechanisms of global governance. While we address the phenomenon of global governance in general, most of our research projects focus on global environmental change and governance […]

The need to manage systemic global risks and to promote global social goods requires better global governance. The accountability of national leaders to their citizens is often in conflict with the need to act in the global public interest. This tension is apparent in problems as diverse as the global […]

Fu Jun, Professor at the School of Government and Executive Dean at Peking University, on the role that China could play in global governance.  

The world is becoming more interconnected and interdependent, spurred by the forces of globalization and technological advance. This connectedness creates great opportunities (such as the benefits of knowledge diffusion) and equally great dangers (such as international terrorism and climate change). Thus the need for cooperation is growing, both among countries […]