New Working Papers
The latest (downloadable) Global Governance Working Papers:
- The Good, the Bad, and the Even Worse: Explaining Variation in the Performance of Energy Partnerships
- Transparency to the Rescue? Assessing Effectiveness of 'Governance by Disclosure'
- A Tale of Two Crises - What the Global Financial Crisis means for the Global Environmental Crisis
- Regime Conflicts in Global Environmental Governance - A Framework for Analysis.
- Fragmentation of Global Governance Architectures - The Case of Climate Policy.
- Partnerships for Sustainable Development: An Appraisal Framework.
Joint research programme
Glogov.org is a joint research programme of the:
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Free University Berlin
- University of Bremen
- Science Po Bordeaux
- Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Lund University
- Oldenburg University
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
- Wageningen University
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Fridtjof Nansen Institute
About the project
The Global Governance Project (Glogov.org) is a joint research programme of twelve 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 for sustainable development.
The Global Governance Project is co-ordinated by the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and includes associate faculty members and research fellows from twelve European institutions: Science Po Bordeaux, University of Bremen, Freie Universität Berlin (Environmental Policy Research Centre), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) Geneva, London School of Economics and Political Science, Lund University, Oldenburg University, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Fridtjof Nansen Institute and Wageningen University. The Project was created in 2001 with the endorsement of the Institutional Dimensions core project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP).
Analytically, we define global governance by three criteria, which also shape the research groups within the Project.
First, we see global governance as characterised by the increasing participation of actors other than states, ranging from private actors such as multinational corporations and (networks of) scientists and environmentalists to intergovernmental organisations ('multiactor governance'). These new actors of global governance are the focus of our research group Manus-Managers of Global Change.
Second, we see global governance as marked by new mechanisms of organisation such as public-private and private-private partnerships, alongside the traditional system of legal treaties negotiated by states. This is the focus of our research group Mecglo-New Mechanisms of Global Governance.
Third, we see global governance as characterised by different layers and clusters of rule-making and rule-implementation, both vertically between supranational, international, national and subnational layers of authority ('multilevel governance') and horizontally between different parallel rule-making systems. This stands at the centre of our research group Mosaic-'Multiple Options, Solutions and Approaches: Institutional Interplay and Conflict'.
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New Master Programme at VU Amsterdam
Political Science: specialization Global Environmental Governance
New Award
Philipp Pattberg was awarded the 2009 Science Price of the German Political Science Association. Read more
New Book
Managers of Global Change
The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies
Edited by Frank Biermann and Bernd Siebenhüner
Forthcoming Book
Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012. Edited by Frank Biermann, Philipp Pattberg, Fariborz Zelli
New Book
International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance. Edited by Frank Biermann, Bernd Siebenhüner, Anna Schreyögg
New Book
Die Organisierte Welt: Internationale Beziehungen und Organisationsforschung. Edited by Klaus Dingwerth, Dieter Kerwer and Andreas Nölke.
New Special Issue
Special Issue of International Environmental Agreements: Exploring and explaining the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate/Guest Edited by Harro van Asselt and Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen.
Environment article on climate refugees
Frank Biermann and Ingrid Boas. 2008 (November-December). Protecting Climate Refugees: The Case for a Global Protocol. Environment 50 (6): 8-16.
New Publication
Global Environmental Governance: Taking Stock, Moving Forward.
Book by P. Pattberg
P.Pattberg, 2007, Private Institutions And Global Governance - The New Politics of Environmental Sustainability, Edward Elgar Publ. Read more>>
Book by K. Dingwerth
K. Dingwerth, 2007, The New Transnationalism - Transnational Governance and Democratic Legitimacy, Macmillan Publ. Read more >>
Book by R. Falkner
R. Falkner, 2007, Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics, Palgrave Macmillan Publ. Read more >>
Glasbergen, Biermann & Mol, eds. 2007. Partnerships, Governance and Sustainable Development - Reflections on Theory and Practice. Edward Elgar Publ. 
Biermann, Frank, and Steffen Bauer, eds. 2005. A World Environment Organisation: Solution or Threat for Effective International Environmental Governance? Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.