Joint Doctoral Seminar ‘Regional and Global Institutions in the 21st Century' 2008 Programme

April 30th - May 1st 2008, Oxford

The 2008 Oxford/Sciences-Po Doctoral Seminar on Regional and Global Institutions in the 21st Century is being held jointly with Oxford’s Governing the Globe programme. It is convened by Andrew Hurrell, Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Renaud Dehousse, and Alex Betts.

As the planned dates for the seminar coincided with important and highly relevant lectures by Professor Zaki Laidi, by Professor Joseph Stiglitz and Dr Olli Rehn, we have included these in the schedule to allow participants to attend.

Wednesday 30 April

European Studies Centre, Woodstock Road

15.00 – 15.45
Paolo De Renzio (Oxford), ‘The Elusive Quest for ‘Good Enough’ Indicators of Governance: An Argument for a more Disaggregated Approach’.

15.45 – 16.30
Andrea Wang (Oxford), ‘Constructing Global Health Governance: The International Health Regulations in Historical Context’.

Special Lecture: European Studies Centre, Woodstock Road

17.00 Professor Zaki Laïdi (Sciences-Po), ‘The Unintended Consequences of European Power’.

18.30 Reception for all participants, Common Room, European Studies Centre.

Thursday 1 May, Session 1

Department of Politics and International Relations, Manor Road

8.45 – 9.30
Auriane Guilbaud (Sciences-Po), ‘Business Integration in Global Health Governance: The Case of the Fight Against Malaria’.

9.30 - 10.15
Matt Eagleton-Pierce (Oxford), ‘Unravelling the Received Idea of “Governance”’.

10.15 – 11.00
Soraya Sidani (Sciences-Po): ‘Deviance in International Relations or States who Refuse to be Parties to International Conventions’.

James Martin Lecture: Sheldonian Theatre

11.30: Professor Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University), ‘Meeting the Challenges of Global Governance in the 21st Century: Financial Markets’.
If you would like to attend, please sign up via the James Martin Institute website.

Thursday 1 May, Session 2

13.00 – 13.30: Lunch, Department of Politics and International Relations, Manor Road.

13.30 – 14.15
Samuel Evans (Oxford), ‘Governing trade in dual-use items: the problem of definition’.

14.15 – 15.00
Alban Davesne (Sciences-Po), ‘Is the Swedish Labour Model Challenged by the Laval Case? A National Controversy in the Context of Europeanized Labour Markets’.

15.00 – 15:45
Timo Idema (Oxford) (paper written with Dan Kelemen), ‘New Modes of Governance, the Open Method of Coordination and Other Fashionable Red Herring’.

European Studies Seminar: Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, Woodstock Road

17.00: Dr Olli Rehn (EU Commissioner for Enlargement), ‘The EU´s smart power in its region and the world’.