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Critical Perspectives on Global Governance (CPOGG) offers an interdisciplinary platform to reflect on the theory and practice of global governance. CPOGG is open to academics, civil society organizations, and policymakers. We strive for academic rigor, policy relevance, and political impact. In the upcoming year, we will organize two workshops, a conference, and publish the Critical Perspectives on Global Governance Reader.

The technological and cultural transformations we have experienced as citizens, academics, and policymakers in the last decades cannot be explained within the limits of our traditional modes of thinking. Globalization is challenging traditional academic analysis and conventional policymaking, therefore, a critical approach is necessary. Critical Perspectives differs from classic critical projects: we are not primarily interested in uncovering hidden power structures, but believe that transformative change forces us to reevaluate the concepts describing/explaining the globalizing world. Only by reflecting upon the concepts of both theorists and policy makers will it be possible to un/recover the political aspects of global governance.

CPOGG was founded by members of the Center for Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy at Freie Universität Berlin, the Forschungsverbund Politik-Recht-Philosophie (PRP) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and the European Law Research Center (ELRC) at Harvard University and is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.