DisConGlobalization, Distributional Conflicts, State-Market-Civil Society Relations

The intuitive causal model

Globalization

changesin material & ideational

preferencesand interests of

agents

conflict amongsocietal agents (within &

across societies)effects

changesin arrangements between

state, market andcivil society

Example: Greece

- Globalized financial markets put pressure on Greek government and EU (economics; business studies)

- Greek government’s response triggers domestic social unrest (Cicam; pol sci; pub adm)

- Solution sought in European & IMF support, shaking the Stability &Growth Pact arrangements in EU (pub adm; eco; polsci)

- German support related to domestic electoral concerns (pol sci)

- EU images develop/reinforced of (frugal) northern & (lazy) southern Europeans (hum geo)

- Interest rate consequences cause trouble for Dutch pensions funds (eco; pub adm; business studies) feeding domestic political worries (pol sci)

Intuitive causal model

- Phenomena both within and between societies- Conflict as (perceived or real) incompatable objectives- Actors & institutions: actors may be individuals, groups, organizations, states,

transnational actors etc.- Opens possibility of finding research puzzles (why no conflict where we would

expect; why changes in institutional arrangements while we would not expect them, etc.)

- Research both in terms of theory driven explanations and in terms of normative/evaluative analyses (e.g. good governance)

Open to all IMR researchers

- Economics:- Describe & explain globalization- Describe & explain institutions regulating the economy (including regionalization)- Assess welfare consequences

- Conflict analysis- Describe & explain fundamental roots of violent conflict- Describe & explain postconflict resolution

- Human Geography- Describe & explain territorial dimensions of nature of preferences and institutional solutions (jncluding

regionalization)- Describe and explain the role of identity

- Business administration- Describe & explain strategy of firms in a globalizing world- Describe & explain effects on intra organizational relations

- Political Science- Describe, explain & evaluate (attempts at) changes (in preferences & institutions) regarding domestic

politics- Describe, explain & evaluate behavior of states (and firms, INGOs and IGOs) in coping with

globalization (including regionalization)

- Public Adminstration- Describe & explain how public policy sectors deal with pressures to adapt to globalization &

regionalization & domestic changes- Evaluates institutional solutions and policy performance

Example: culturalization of immigration

1. From 3 disciplines (Eco, Pub Adm, Pol Sci)2. Two empirical analyses, one normative-empirical3. Resemble elements of the ‘intuitive causal model’