Panel Discussion: Defining Tomorrow’s Research Agenda on International Organizations in Post-2022 Dynamics
Giessen Graduate Centre (GGS) Section “International Organizations & International Law” and the Chair of International Integration, the Institute of Political Science, JLU Giessen cordially invite to the panel discussion on the topic of Defining Tomorrow’s Research Agenda: International Organizations and Post-2022 Dynamics.
- https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns/veranstaltungen/tagungen/panel-discussion-on-io-research-agenda
- Panel Discussion: Defining Tomorrow’s Research Agenda on International Organizations in Post-2022 Dynamics
- 2024-11-13T16:00:00+01:00
- 2024-11-13T17:30:00+01:00
- Giessen Graduate Centre (GGS) Section “International Organizations & International Law” and the Chair of International Integration, the Institute of Political Science, JLU Giessen cordially invite to the panel discussion on the topic of Defining Tomorrow’s Research Agenda: International Organizations and Post-2022 Dynamics.
13.11.2024 von 16:00 bis 17:30 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)
Senckenberg Straße 3, 35390 Gießen ("Zeughaus", Room ZE-SO2)
Panelists: Andrea Gawrich (JLU Giessen), Andreas Kruck (LMU), Anastasiya Bayok (IFSH), Falk Ostermann (University of Kiel), Janne Mende (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), Michael Giesen (University of Potsdam)
Abstract
The scholarship of the last decade has persistently warned us about the shaping trends in the world from the rising political right, backsliding democracies, resurging autocracies, and limiting space for civil societies around the world to the forming "political East," manifesting itself institutionally in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the BRICS, declining international democracy support agendas and influence, growing challenges to the liberal order and US hegemony from all around the world, and the now peak hitting dissatisfaction of the Global South with its place in, and the design and functioning of, the global governance structures. Nevertheless, we seemed little convinced of how the world had been changing until we had to face the COVID-19 pandemic and related complications, followed by the start of the war in Ukraine and the crisis in Gaza, further complicated by the now ever-prominent US-China rivalry. IO studies cannot remain unreflective of these events, continuing with the “business as usual” research into the general premises of the IO world. No doubt, the above-listed trends and developments around the world will shape the research agenda of the future as much as the scholarly works of the past and those carried out until recent times. As observed in the past, such extraordinary times often lead to "leaps" or "turns" in the knowledge generation process, contrasting with the gradual and granular accumulative process of the less tumultuous times. To detect and foresee such "leaps" and "turns" in IO studies, the GGS Section "International Organizations and International Law" and the Chair of International Integration are organising a panel discussion which will provide a chance for the guest researchers to reflect on, and for the audience to engage in debates about, the IO research agenda and its future perspectives.