General Data

Research Group “Global Governance and International Regimes” was established in 2008, within the scope of the Graduate Program in Law at Universidade Católica de Santos (UniSantos). It succeeded the Group Global Governance, which had started studies on the theme, with special highlight on the presentation of work at the XIV National Congress of Conpedi – National Council of Research and Graduation in Law, in November 2005, bearing the title “The concept of governance”, by prof. Alcindo Gonçalves, addressing the issue from the International Law standpoint and discussing the legitimacy of global governance.

The group works two main areas:

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, which can be defined as “a totality of ways through which individuals and institutions, both public and private ones, manage their common problems (…) involving (in addition to intergovernmental relations) non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil movements, multinational companies and global capital markets”, according to the definition by the UN Commission on Global Governance, 1996.

INTERNATIONAL REGIMES, which are “sets of implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules, and decision-making procedures around which actors´ expectations converge in a given area of international relations”, according to the essential text of Stephen Krasner, “Structural Causes and Regime Consequences: Regimes as Intervening Variables”, published in magazine International Organization, v. 36, n. 2, in 1982.

The two areas are “umbrellas” for several research projects and approaches in the field of International Law, Environmental Law (specifically International Environmental Law) and International Relations, in addition to Economics, Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology.

 

Contact: Prof. Alcindo Fernandes Gonçalves – alcindo@unisantos.br