Una Europa Global Governance Research Group
An interdisciplinary "Research Group on Global Governance" composed by members of the Una Europa alliance
Online conference available by webinar, 3 June 2025
"The European Union in an Illiberal World"
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The second US presidency of Donald Trump seems to have sealed the end of the international liberal order that was established after World War II, and which found expression in international institutions like the United Nations (UN), its specialized agencies (such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, etc.) and later the World Trade Organization (WTO). One should not romanticise this order, which began with brutal wars of independence to end colonialism, and then various 'Cold War' proxy wars, most notably in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Nevertheless, when the USSR and the other countries of Eastern Europe transitioned – largely peacefully – from central planning and one-party government from 1989 onwards, it did appear that the world was moving towards a generalised form of liberal democracy, albeit with significant variations. The so-called "holiday from history" in the 1990s was nevertheless marked by the horrors, notably the Rwanda genocide in 1994, the Srebrenica massacre in 1995, the civil war in Algeria, and the Great War of Africa (1998-2003). Yet the international, liberal institutional architecture was still being deepened, for example, as the International Criminal Court was established in 1998, with China joining the World Trade Organisation in 2001, and the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015. However, the 21st century has also seen this edifice crumble, most notably as the US and its allies went to war illegally with Iraq in 2003, when Russia invaded Ukraine first in 2014 but mainly in 2022, and when the Netanyahu government launched its "eliminationist assault" (see Daniel Goldhagen) on Gaza, following the terrible Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023. This conference seeks to examine the very varied issues facing the international community and the European Union in particular in this new illiberal world.
The provisional agenda is available here:
What's new?
Latest news
December 2024 - Special Issue, Global Policy
"The European Union and the Pursuit of Global Governance in a Multi-Polar, Fractured World"
Edited by: Nicholas Sowels, Jan Wouters, Maria C. Latorre
Thursday, July 1, 2021, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Una Europa Podcast by Prof. Maria C. Latorre and Prof. Jan Wouters on Their "Dialogue between Policy and Academia" Project
Tribuna Complutense
22.01.2021
Una Europa financia un proyecto, liderado desde la Facultad de Estadística, que busca mejorar la toma de decisiones políticas
Maria, could you give as an introduction into 'Dialogues between policy-makers and academia'. What is this all about?
December 8th, 2023
Main features
Ambitious goal
Under the initiative of Prof. María C. Latorre (Facultad de Estudios Estadísticos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Prof. Jan Wouters (Faculty of Law, KU Leuven), researchers from Una Europa universities have formed the "Una Europa Global Governance Research Group". We want to offer relevant advice to policymakers grounded in cutting-edge research, while pedagogical collaborations are also envisaged.
Interdisciplinary character
One of the richness of the group is its interdisciplinary approach. The Founding Members of the Una Europa Global Governance Research Group come from different lines of research, such as, computational methods, law, statistics, economics and international relationships, among others. We are open to collaborate with researchers from universities from the Una Europa Alliance working in these and other close lines of research.
Strong team
We already have
a strong, committed and interdisciplinary initial team of founding
members. It is strong because it is composed of Senior Academics from each
of the eight UNA Europa Universities and alsoincludes an additional partner, which is Real
Colegio Complutense at Harvard University.
Collaboration with other policymakers
The founding members of the Una Europa Global Governance Research Group have experience in developing applied research, which is relevant for policymakers. We want to go deeper into these relations and, to that aim, we have promoted a series of seminars called "Dialogues between policymakers and Academia".
We already have a strong, committed and interdisciplinary initial team of founding members. It is strong because it is composed of Senior Academics from each of the eight UNA Europa Universities and also includes an additional partner, which is Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University.
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Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University
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