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Why are international agreements often not enough?
Cooperation is indispensable. But between a shared commitment and its implementation there is often a gap.
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Governance and global cooperation
Deciding together on what concerns everyone
Some problems cannot be solved by a single country. This area will explore how international institutions work today, what their limits are and what safeguards any global decision-making capacity requires.
Planned topics
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- International cooperation
- Existing institutions: possibilities and limits
- Subsidiarity
- Global decision-making tools
- Representation and competence
- Checks and protection against abuses of power
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about 2–3 minutes
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Questions still open
- Which decisions really require the global level and which do not?
- Which checks make a supranational power reversible and limited?
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