Global Studies Conference

The “Economics and Management of Globalisation” stream is presented to discuss works on the aspects of globalization and de-globalization, with both theoretical models and empirical approaches. In detail, the aim is to provide an understanding of topics such as growth, structural transformation, and policy evaluation. The topics are related to the understanding of national and supranational responses to events such as economic and financial crises, environmental challenges, and the adoption of AI. Moreover, research works focusing on multinational enterprises and SMEs, industry and the public sector, as well as finance and labor, are welcome.

To deepen the multidisciplinary study of today’s global economy, we encourage contributions on: 

• International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI);

• Environmental Economics and Policy;

• Global Value Chains (GVC) and the off-shoring, re-shoring, and near-shoring business strategies;

• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their role in business and administration.

The “Socio-politics of Globalisation” stream, divided in two main sections, will welcome abstracts dealing with: 

The section of  International Relations seeks to adopt a variety of approaches, favouring critical, decolonial, and decentralizing perspectives on the discipline. Scholars are invited to submit contributions focusing on:

• Regional and Interregional Studies;

• Foreign policy of the EU as well as that of other International Organizations;

• Postcolonial Studies in IR or Decolonizing approaches of IR;

• Growing importance of Global South actors on the world stage.

The Political Theory section begins with a precise understanding of what it means to provincialize political categories. On the one hand, critique must show how such categories reproduce a European and Atlantic gaze that operates as material and concrete domination. On the other hand, it must invent new categories and reappropriate existing ones in new ways. 

We welcome contributions on the following themes:

• displacement and provincialization of European and Atlantic political categories;

• movements, struggles, rebellions, revolts and their implications for provincializing political thought;

• methodological reflections on the provincialization of political theory;

• non-Western political thought.