Centre of Expertise Global Governance
New actors and new solutions for global governance challengesThe Centre of Expertise for Global Governance aims to find out what is exactly happening within and between governing bodies and the actors that take part in them. We look at the interplay of new and traditional actors within the ‘grey zones’ of operation between international, national, regional, local and non-territorial players.
The age of globalization has left us with a world marked by increasing political complexity and cross-border issues. Governance structures on all levels are transforming. New actors have joined the stage and change traditional routines, creating new opportunities and challenges for participation and cooperation. New solutions are being developed to tackle new, contemporary demands.
Our centre combines three research groups at The Hague University of Applied Sciences: The Changing role of Europe (CRoEU), UN studies in Peace and Justice (UNPJ) and Multilevel Regulation (MLR). Each from its own perspective, we seek to enhance the understanding of the way in which contemporary governance structures are organized, changing and, importantly, how these changes affect the general public as well as (future) professionals. Our shared perspective enables us to obtain better ‘grip’ on what is happening within and between governance structures, identifying the road ahead for regained trust in public authority.
Projects
Global Challenges in 365 Days: Creating student science on global governance
Professional training courses on ‘Global Governance in Practice’
The Community of Practice on Global Governance in practice
The Textbook on “Global Governance in Practice”
One of the important missions of our Centre is to increase practical knowledge of students on issues of global governance in selected programmes at THUAS. For this purpose, the Centre has started the development of a student textbook on Global Governance in Practice.
Researchers in the spotlight
Researcher in the spotlight: Christine Tremblay
Christine Tremblay, lecturer at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, is starting a weekly reading discussion group exploring diversity and inclusion. Diversity and inclusion is an important and vibrant subject for THUAS studen...
Read moreResearcher in the spotlight: Ruud Schapenk
“It’s a major challenge for any researcher to convey the results of dense research in an accessible and almost effervescent way. However, a podcast is an excellent way to achieve that. Together with Dr. Mendeltje van Keulen, profes...
Read moreRecent publications
Decentralisatie: hét antwoord op de Arabische Lente?
The so-called “Arab Spring” originated in the socio-economic grievances which resulted from the long-standing regional inequalities in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa. One of the policy responses was to deepen ongoing decentralisation reforms, or design and implement new ones, ostensibly in a bid to increase citizen participation in local governance and service delivery. In this article published by the Clingendael Spectator, Sylvia I. Bergh takes stock of these reforms in Morocco, Tunisia, and Jordan, and finds that the reforms’ implementation suffer from weak or ambiguous legal frameworks and a lack of adequate human and financial resources. Decentralisation reforms have at best offered a (temporary) solution to the crisis of legitimacy of both authoritarian regimes and newly elected governments. However, they do not (yet) provide a substantive response the protesters' ongoing demands for socio-economic justice.
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Centre of Expertise Publications
Research Group Changing Role of Europe
Peer-reviewed journal article; dec. 2020
The Role of Constitutional Courts in Promoting Healthcare Equity: Lessons from Hungary
Article
Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic: Are the EU’s current competences used to their full potential?
Research Group Multilevel Regulation
Written text of the inaugural lecture
Returning to the Origins of Multilevel Regulation
Manifesto
The Multilevel Regulation Manifesto
Research Group United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice
Report
Future of the UN - A Youth Perspective
Report
The United Nations after Brexit
Report
Just Peace X UN Youth Impact: Statelessness and Peaceful Societies
Essays
Trip to the UN: Essays by young students of the Van Aartsen Honours Program
Blog
Women face an ‘extra responsibility’ in the armed forces
Team
dr. Barbara Warwas
Director Centre of Expertise and Professor Multilevel Regulation
dr. Mendeltje van Keulen
Professor Changing Role of Europe
prof. dr. Alanna O'Malley
Professor United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice
Remmelt de Weerd
Programme Coordinator
dr. Sylvia Bergh
Senior Researcher
Tamara Takács
Coordinator of Professional Trainings
Debora Spinabelli
Management Assistant
Director Centre of Expertise and Professor Multilevel Regulation
dr. Barbara Warwas
Dr. Barbara Warwas is a professor at The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS). Barbara is also a lecturer in arbitration and coordinator of the minor in dispute resolution at the LAW Programme at THUAS. Prior to her position as professor she was a coordinator of the Comparative Law Line and Commercial Law Specialization at the LAW Programme. Barbara is the author of The Liability of Arbitral Institutions: Legitimacy Challenges and Functional Responses published by Springer, 2016. In 2014, she worked as a drafter, researcher, and administrator for the ground-breaking study on the Legal Instruments and Practices of Arbitration in the EU and Switzerland, commissioned by the European Parliament. Barbara has a Ph.D. in Law from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Prior to joining The Hague University, Barbara worked as visiting counsel in the litigation department at GE Oil & Gas in Florence and in the Italian law firm Studio Legale Calabresi Guadalupi.
Professor Changing Role of Europe
dr. Mendeltje van Keulen
Mendeltje van Keulen is lector Changing role of Europe since 1 January 2018. She has a PhD and MA European Public Administration (College of Europe, Bruges; EUI Florence, University of Twente). Her dissertation focused on the effects of EU policy shaping by the Dutch government in the field of natural gas and biotechnology. She worked as a (senior) research fellow for the Netherlands Institute for International Relations ‘ Clingendael’, the WRR (Scientific Council for Government Policy) and various ministries. As team leader of the parliamentary EU staff in the Dutch parliament, she gained abundant practical experience in processes of Europeanisation and change management. Mendeltje van Keulen regularly publishes and teaches on European policy making for students and professionals.
m.vankeulen@hhs.nlProfessor United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice
prof. dr. Alanna O'Malley
Alanna O’Malley is Professor of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and Leiden University. She completed a PhD at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence from 2007-2012. In 2009, she was a Visiting Scholar at New York University, in Spring 2017 a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow at the Laureate Research Program in International History at the University of Sydney and from August 2017-February 2018 she was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the History Department of George Washington University in Washington D.C. In 2019 she was awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her new research project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within, The Invisible History of the UN and the Global South.
a.m.sylver-omalley@hhs.nlProgramme Coordinator
Remmelt de Weerd
Senior Researcher
dr. Sylvia Bergh
Dr. Sylvia I. Bergh is senior researcher at the Centre of Expertise on Global Governance at THUAS. She completed both her D.Phil. in Development Studies and her M. Phil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, having obtained an M.A. in Arabic and International Relations from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). Sylvia has a keen interest in multi-level governance issues, and has published widely on state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa region, including The Politics of Development in Morocco: Local Governance and Participation in North Africa (I.B. Tauris, 2017), and edited the book The Redeployment of State Power in the Southern Mediterranean: Implications of Neoliberal Reforms for Local Governance (London: Routledge, 2013). Before her academic career, Sylvia worked at the World Bank, both in the President’s Office in Washington DC and in the Morocco Country Office. She also regularly teaches and consults on evaluations of development projects and programs, and combines her position at THUAS with a part-time position as Associate Professor in Development Management and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands (focusing on PhD supervision).
Coordinator of Professional Trainings
Tamara Takács
Since 2017, Tamara has filled various leadership positions within The Hague University of Applied Sciences: first as senior lecturer and team lead at the Bachelor Law Programme and most recently as senior researcher and research coordinator at the Changing Role of Europe Research Group within the Center for Expertise Global Governance. Currently she works for COE as coordinator of professional trainings. Previously she was academic programme coordinator and senior researcher within the TMC Asser Institute and in that capacity designed and implemented the various activities of the Center for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER), and fostered and maintained a booming community of academics and practitioners between 2011 and 2017. She was assistant professor at Utrecht University (2009-2011) and adjunct associate professor at Washington College of Law (Washington, DC, USA) (Spring 2011). As legal consultant and trainer, Tamara has provided legal and policy advice for international organisations (EC, OSCE, OSCE/ODIHR) and worked extensively with legal professionals in EU countries, South-East Europe, Ukraine, and the MENA region in the frame of trainings and collaborative research projects. Tamara received her law degree from the University of Pécs (Hungary), a Master’s Degree in European Union Law (D.E.A in Droit Communautaire) from Université Nancy 2 (France) and completed her doctoral dissertation (PhD) at Utrecht University School of Law.
t.takacs-1@hhs.nlManagement Assistant
Debora Spinabelli
After a maternity break she took up a part-time role at the Centre of Expertise. Debora has a heart for lean and clear organization, helping and creating an encouraging and positive working environment. Her key values in work are integrity, encouragement and excellence. Her motto is ‘I desire to contribute to a Centre of Expertise which is also regarded as a “Centre of Excellence”!’
d.spinabelli@hhs.nl