IGCC Partners with Global Governance Research Consortium

IGCC is delighted to announce a new partnership with the Geneva-based Global Governance Research Consortium, a network of scholars whose mission is to foster rigorous, innovative research that addresses the most pressing challenges in global governance. The new international partnership brings together diverse perspectives and methodologies to contribute to both academic scholarship and practical policy solutions on issues ranging from climate change and technology, to cross-border repression and democratic resilience.

James Holloway, a professor of international relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute and co-director of the Global Governance Center, played a key role in launching the initiative. In addition to IGCC and the Geneva Graduate Institute, other founding members include the Niehaus Center at Princeton, the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute, the Stockholm Center for Global Governance and Laval University’s Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur la Gouvernance Mondiale.

IGCC’s participation builds on its growing body of research on the changing international order, including the Illiberal Regimes and Global Governance project, led by Stephan Haggard, IGCC research director for Democracy and Global Governance. The project examines how authoritarian and illiberal governments seek to reshape international institutions and norms, and what those efforts mean for the future of global governance.

As one of its first initiatives, the consortium is launching a seminar series organized by IGCC and Jonas Taalberg at the Stockholm Center for Global Governance. The series will bring together scholars from consortium institutions and beyond to examine emerging challenges to international institutions and cooperation, including China’s role in multilateral organizations, transnational repression, the international governance workforce, and the changing role of the World Bank.

The fall 2026 series includes:

• October 12: “Bounded Ambition: China as a Multilateral Actor in World Politics,” with Rosemary Foot, University of Oxford.
• November 3: “Cooperation Against Citizens: Authoritarian International Organizations and Transnational Repression,” with Christina J. Schneider, University of California, San Diego and IGCC.
• November 23: “The Global Governance Workforce: Shifting Politics of International Organizations,” with Vincent Pouliot, University of Montréal.
• December 8: “Strategic Evaluations as Quiet Accommodation: World Bank Responses to the Founding of China’s AIIB,” with James Raymond Vreeland, Princeton University.

The seminars are open to the public with advance registration.

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