The Future of Planetary Governance and the Emergence of Global Action Networks

THE GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM,in conjunction with the search for a chaired professorship in GLOBAL
AUTHORITY AND GOVERNANCE sponsored by the DUNCAN AND SUZANNE MELLICHAMP INITIATIVE, is pleased to invite you to a lecture by

SANJEEV KHAGRAM
Wyss Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School

Thursday, April 30, 2009
12 p.m.
Orfalea Center Seminar Room
1005 Rob Gym

Over the past two decades, multi-stakeholder and cross-sectoral global action networks (GANs: a critical subset of cross-sectoral action networks more generally or CANs) emerged as arguably the most innovative global governance arrangements with transcontinental and multi-scalar agendas and reach. GANs can now be found in virtually every field from well known initiatives like the Global Compact, Global Fund, Marine Stewardship Council and Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, to less well known ones like the Global Water Partnership, Youth Employment Systems, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, and the Sustainable Biofuels Partnership. This seminar will explicate the theory and empirics of GANs. It will systemically analyze the emergence, dynamics, as well as current and potential role of GANs in global governance.

Professor Khagram is known worldwide for his interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral scholarship, teaching, and leadership in the areas of globalization and transnationalism, global governance and international institutions, nongovernmental organizations and civil society, corporate citizenship and emerging regulatory forms, sustainable development and human security. He was honored as a 2009 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

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