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31 May 2010
GPPi Fellow participates in S.T. Lee workshop on Global Energy Governance
Andeas Goldthau, Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy at Central European University and GPPi Fellow participated in the S.T Lee workshop on Global Energy Governance at the National University of Singapore on 25 - 27 May 2010.
In January 2008 the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) and its Centre on Asia and Globalisation (CAG) launched a three-year S.T. Lee Project on Global Governance. The project brings together top thinkers and practitioners from East and West to develop insights and recommendations on how to govern a world that includes a rising Asia. The project includes three study groups: Concepts of global governance, global energy governance, and global health governance which address two key sets of questions:
- How can states, the private sector and civil society better organize to address the deficiencies in global governance? In a world of emerging multipolarity and deepening globalisation, how can the international community take effective collective action?
- What is Asia’s role in dealing with these issues? How can, and should, Asia translate its emerging economic clout into positive political influence that will strengthen global governance?
The Global Energy Governance (GEG) study group explored whether it is possible to bring together the security, environmental, development, and human rights aspects of energy in a grand bargain and what institutional mechanisms can be reformed or developed to address the many dilemmas of energy policy. Moreover, it looked to the project’s other study groups, particularly the Concepts Group, and explored which intermediate and/or long-term approaches to global governance do or could apply to global energy and climate change governance.
At the meeting, Andreas Goldthau presented a paper, co-authored with GPPi Associate Director Jan Martin Witte, on the role of OPEC in Global Energy Governance and discussed the prospects and limits of oil producer cooperation in global energy and their contribution to stabilizing volatile oil markets.
For more information, please visit: http://www.spp.nus.edu.sg/cag/Global_Governance.aspx