No.10 How International Institutions Change: Analytic Perspectives and Contemporary Applications
Time:2019-06-21       

On 21th June 2019, the tenth workshop of the Fudan-LSE lecture series was held at Fudan University. The lecture was jointly organized by the Institute for Global Public Policy (IGPP) and School of International Relations & Public Affairs, Fudan University. Seventeen guests and scholars from Fudan University, University of California at Santa Barbara, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Foreign Studies University, East China University of Political Science and Law, Nanjing University, Tongji University, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai People's Press participated in the workshop.

In the first half of the workshop, Professor Oran R. Young, an emeritus Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, gave a keynote speech entitled “How international institutions change: Analytic perspectives and contemporary applications”. In recent years, Professor Yang’s works focus on comparative analyses of environment governance between China and America. Professor Young suggested that the transformation of international institutions is universal in today's international community but there are some differences. He listed three different changes in international institutions: changes within the institutions, changes in institutional structures and specific issues, changes in formal and informal institutions.


After that, Yan Bo from Fudan university, Hongsong Liu from Shanghai International Studies University, Lingyu Lu from East China University of Political Science and Law, and Mingguo Wang from Shanghai University of International Business and Economic gave academic reports entitled “Changes in ways of the global climate governance”, “The European Union's leadership in global climate governance”, “National formation theory and the future of European integration”, “The international institutional logic of Trump's withdrawal from the Paris agreement”, respectively. Professor Xiao Ren and Yu Zheng from Fudan University gave comments on these reports.

In the second half of the workshop, Weizhun Mao from Nanjing University, Zheng Chen from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Bei Tang from Shanghai International Studies University, and Jie Zhu from Fudan University gave academic reports entitled “Great powers’ strategic competition and the construction of global connectivity regulations”, “Strategic reassurance in institutional transformation”, “Reform paths for international organizations under the budget crisis”, and “Rising countries’ path choices in transforming international system”. Professor Ming Liu from Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and Cun Wang from Tong Ji University gave comments on these reports. Last, Professor Jie Zhu made a concluding speech and called on scholars to participate more in such academic seminars to learn from each other and contribute to the change of international institutions under the background of China's rising international status and international institutional reform.