ACTIVITIES
Intercontinental Research and Education Project
In 2006 and 2007, the Institute for Studies in Political Economy (IPE) pursues activities in cooperation with the Latin American Center for Social Ecology (CLAES).
Civil Society has been criticizing global institutions and governments for quite some time. Issues were, among others, internal democracy of institutions, development startegies, and the inability to cope with poverty and inequality. Despite some recent success stories, like the consolidation of the World Social Forum, limitations to organizing coordinated resistance to liberal economic globalization dynamics still appear to prevail.
While business actors are committed to transnational cooperation, activities of civil society actors often remain limited to national or regional boundaries. It is the issue of this project to improve access of civil society actors to the global debate as well as to promote academic works from authors from outside the center of the world system. Participants of the activities within the project include regional networks and activists from political, social, and anti-globalist movements: unions, churches, environmentalists, human rights organizations, debtor coalitions etc.
Avtivities
A CLAES/IPE team has been set up. CLAES will focus on Latin America and IPE on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): As far as CEE is concerned, states and governments are being confronted with European rather than global institutions. The former thereby often play the role of the latter in relations with single states. As a result globalization in CEE is leading to an asymmetric europeanization. The parallels between globalization and asymmetric europeanization make research in this region a particularily interesting endeavor.
Both parts of the CLAES/IPE-team will promote and pursue activities in the respective geographical region. The lessons learned from these activities will be shared in joint activities.
The Project: New Instruments and New Musicians
The full title of the project with CLAES is "New Instruments and New Musicians in the Globalization Scenario". Promoting and Strengthening New Actors and New Perspectives on Civil Society Facing Globalization.Civil Society has been criticizing global institutions and governments for quite some time. Issues were, among others, internal democracy of institutions, development startegies, and the inability to cope with poverty and inequality. Despite some recent success stories, like the consolidation of the World Social Forum, limitations to organizing coordinated resistance to liberal economic globalization dynamics still appear to prevail.
While business actors are committed to transnational cooperation, activities of civil society actors often remain limited to national or regional boundaries. It is the issue of this project to improve access of civil society actors to the global debate as well as to promote academic works from authors from outside the center of the world system. Participants of the activities within the project include regional networks and activists from political, social, and anti-globalist movements: unions, churches, environmentalists, human rights organizations, debtor coalitions etc.
Avtivities
A CLAES/IPE team has been set up. CLAES will focus on Latin America and IPE on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): As far as CEE is concerned, states and governments are being confronted with European rather than global institutions. The former thereby often play the role of the latter in relations with single states. As a result globalization in CEE is leading to an asymmetric europeanization. The parallels between globalization and asymmetric europeanization make research in this region a particularily interesting endeavor.
Both parts of the CLAES/IPE-team will promote and pursue activities in the respective geographical region. The lessons learned from these activities will be shared in joint activities.
CLAES - Latin American Center for Social Ecology
CLAES is a non-profit association and small think tank based in Uruguay. It has been working on sustainable development, regional integration and the role of civil society for more than ten years. With a series of activities, CLAES is devoted to current globalization processes and the role of civil society therein. CLAES' objectives are- promoting and strengthening new actors from civil society;
- analyzing and reviewing the impact of global processes;
- engaging in civil society's actors' reaction to these global processes.
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