Multipolarism's
challenges and Italian foreign policy strategies.
In the order of the AREL's project focusing on the Italian
foreign policy in the global multipolar system, financed
by Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the IAI is in
charge of coordinating a working group composed of
scholars, analysts and representatives from institutions
and firms. Expanding a reflection already undertaken in
the ambit of a preceding IAI-AREL joint initiative, the
working group will focus on some key issues such as the
reform of the main international institutions (IMF, WB,
WTO) and the perspectives of cooperation between the most
relevant global economic areas. By means of a constant
monitoring of the main countries' government positions, as
well as negotiations held in the scope of G8 and G20,
scenarios on future evolutions of the global economic
governance will be defined in order to understand the EU
and Italy's role in the reforming process. Within the project, the 18th Novembre 2009, took place the international conference "Global Governance and economic growth in the world economy after the crisis".
 Programme
Presentation,
Damien Dunn
Speech,
Enrico Letta
Presentation,
John Williamson
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Global Governance
The aim of the following three-year project is to
analyse, in the light of the current financial and
economic crisis, future possible positions for Italy in
Europe and in the global economic system in a mid-long
term perspective, also in order to suggest adequate
options for the Italian foreign economic policy. The
research general hypothesis is that Italy and Europe would
profit from a multilateral management of the international
system based on cooperative agreements and shared rules
among principal poles. For the US and Europe, the
challenge would be the integration, in a shared rules
system, of rising powers and transforming them into
responsible stakeholders. In connection with this, there
will be elaborated scenarios which, according to different
levels of intervention, will concern the Italian action,
the European action and the global action. In a second
phase, there will be identified policy actions that are
necessary in order to place our country's evolution on a
more desirable path. Preparatory position papers on each
issue (growth, trade, technology, energy and environment,
demography) will be realized. Restricted seminars will be
organized for the position papers discussion. The
research's most relevant results will be then collected in
a general report which will be presented in a public
workshop.
Problems
and perspectives of the system of economic global
governance
Within the network of institutes that study the
scenarios of reforms of the systems of global economic
governance, in which IAI takes part together with Chatham
House, at the Centre for International Governance
Innovation and the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy,
has been started an initiative of reflection about the
scenarios of reform of the rules and the institutions that
underlie the dynamics of global economy. Particular care
is devoted to the processes of reform concerning
multilateral economic and financial institutions (World
Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade
Organisation). The working party gathers periodically and
organises several initiatives of discussion and diffusion
of the results of the research.
China
and European Union in the system of global
governance
The initiative is organised within the frame of
collaboration that IAI implemented with the Chinese
Academy of Social Science (CASS), and with which develops
several fields of research. Through the exchange of
experts, the two institutes discuss the problems and the
perspectives of the Chinese international activity and its
relations with European Union. A specific issue now
deepened is the one concerning the insertion and the
action of China within the multilateral system of
political and economic governance of the international
community.
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