IBEI's research activities are organized around cross-cutting and interdisciplinary research clusters. Each cluster brings together IBEI faculty members, affiliated professors, visiting scholars, and doctoral students who share expertise on a common theme and provides them with a platform to discuss their work, exchange views, and start joint research initiatives. Likewise, IBEI encourages exchange and collaboration with other centers and researchers to promote the production and dissemination of quality research. Currently there are five IBEI research clusters: • The cluster on globalization and public policy focuses on the way globalization influences, and is influenced by, the capacity of different actors to defend and promote their economic and political interests. • The cluster on norms and rules in international relations studies the role of rules and norms in maintaining international order, as well as the extent to which formal and informal institutional actors contest them. • The cluster on institutions, inequality and development explores the economic and political dynamics that generate diverse inequality patterns and lead to varying developmental outcomes across the globe. • The cluster on security, conflict and peace looks at the drivers, consequences and politics of conflict and political violence, along with strategies that can be taken to prevent or deal with the outcomes. • The cluster on states, diversity and collective identities investigates the role of the state, supranational institutions and civil society actors in the construction and mobilization of collective identities. IBEI faculty engage in a variety of research projects with international teams funded by the
European Commission, the Spanish Government or the Catalan Government, among other funding sources. IBEI also runs a working papers series that disseminates work in progress. More detailed information on IBEI's research activities can be found in the research report published every two years.
Previous research programmes Research programmers were focused in three areas: Global Governance, Networks and Institutions in a Global Economy, and Security, Power and Multilateralism in a Global World. The research projects are funded mostly through competitive calls for papers from the European Commission, the Government of Spain, the Catalan Government and other public and private institutions. Since 2008, IBEI has obtained funding for around thirty research projects. IBEI pays particular attention to the existing challenges to be overthrown for a more balanced and multipolar international system. The scientific production of the institute is focused on connecting the interests and concerns of today's society with the dynamics of globalization and internationalization. Likewise, IBEI encourages exchange and collaboration with other centers and research professionals to promote the production and dissemination of quality research. IBEI has also conducted research projects with international teams such as CONSENSUS, EUCROSS, BEUCITIZEN, TRANSCRISIS (funded by the European Commission), EU-PERFORM, EUMARR or GLOBALDEMOS (funded by the Government of Spain). IBEI has a series of
working papers that disseminate academic papers representing work in progress. Every two years, IBEI publishes a research report with its activities and research results.
Global Governance Global governance captures the changing patterns in which common problems are dealt with in today's increasingly interdependent world. Building on classical multilateral forms of cooperation, it encompasses today a bewildering array of actors and institutions. Public and private actors, formal and informal institutions, intergovernmental and transnational forms of regulation interact in an often uncoordinated, sometimes competitive, and typically highly complex structure. The research programme on global governance seeks to understand the shape of global governance, its changing legal and normative framework as well as accountability mechanisms as they are adapting to the changing institutional landscape. The research programme is coordinated by
Nico Kirsch. The main areas of research are: International institutions and governance structures, Actors and networks in global regulatory governance, Forms of global authority, The legitimacy of global law, Constitutional interfaces between regimes in global governance and Popular sovereignty in the global order.
Networks and Institutions in a Global Economy The aim of this research programme is to analyze the political and social context created by the acceleration of
globalization processes from the last decade of the 20th onwards, including the intensification of trade integration processes at an international level and the dynamics of the new regionalism. From the perspective of political economy, a central concern of this programme are the changes in the composition and comparative strengths of the different actors participating in the creation of public institutions and policies, whether national or transnational. The research programme is coordinated by Juan Díez Medrano. The main thematic areas of research are: The dynamics and politics of development, The impacts of regional integration processes, The transnationalization of economic activities, The spread of policies and institutions and Democracy, states and growth.
Security, Power and Multilateralism in a Global World The programme addresses different dimensions of the "new" security agenda, which incorporates problems of global scope (energy and environmental risks,
transnational crime, global terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, massive population movements) that mutually reinforce both each other and traditional problems (armed conflicts, persistent poverty). Research is based on a multilateral logic, focusing on the effectiveness and legitimacy of the current security policies. The research programme is coordinated by Esther Barbé. The main thematic areas of research are: Multilateral security institutions, Construction of the global security agenda, Conflict management and prevention,
Fragile state, globalization and armed conflict and The European Union in the security sphere.
IBEI Working Papers IBEI has a Working Papers series to disseminate academic documents representing work in progress, such as literature reviews, papers to be presented at conferences, first versions of articles or seminar drafts. The aim of this series is to provide a medium for the early publication of ongoing research projects. == Teaching quality ==