1. Global Governance
Economics and Politics of Migration, Regulatory regimes, Citizenship, Global Architecture, Global Conflict Management and Global Discursive Spaces: competing impacts of Religions, Ideologies and Media

2. Aim
To understand complex connection between global processes and multiple interactions.
To reveal patterns of connectedness between events, tendencies and trends in global governance related to Migration, Regulatory regimes, Citizenship, Architecture and Discursive Spaces

3. Tasks To establish mini-groups on specific research topics
To collect data providing understanding of issues covered by the workshop
To develop glossaries to clarify key concepts
To discover multiple reasons of connectedness between global trends

4. List of topics: Migration & Public Management Reforms
The Migration Policy of the Eurasian Union.
The Management of the Middle Eastern and African Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean.
Forced migration from the Ukrainian and Syrian conflicts. Resettlement policies in Russia.
EU and Eastern European Governments' responses to new routes in illegal migration (South Asia – Russia –Ukraine- Eastern Europe).
The Implementation of EU migration programs (directives and regulations) in Eastern and Central European member-countries.
African migration to Brazil. Portuguese and Spanish Migration to Angola and Equatorial Guinea. Policymaking and «culture».
The rise and demise of the UN Global Commission on migration.
Public Management reforms under pressure (sanctions, crisis, uncertainty) preferably in a comparative perspective
Policies towards Russian speakers or Ethnic Russians in the post-Soviet space. Comparative effectiveness.
Mahama Tawat

5. List of topics: Global Citizenship
Global citizenship – The concept and history of global citizenship
Comparative models of education in global citizenship.
Forms and process of creation of global identities.
Tolerance and education as a mean of building citizenship
The manifestation of global movements and their involvement as global publics.
Sanjay Kumar Rajhans
Heather McRobie

6. List of topics: Regulatory regimes & Global Conflict Management
Regulatory regime in Arctic: Resource regimes.
Policy change in international judication system (European Union framework of HR sphere)
South China Sea conflict – Resource based analysis.
International community role in resolving territorial conflicts in nation states
Responsibility, bargaining on international community divided roles of taking care of forced migrants
Managing borders in times of conflicts (Syria, Libya, Israel, Ukraine, Chechnya)
Conflict management institutions at global level: its ambitions and roles
Nina Belyaeva

7. List of topics: Global Architecture
Architectural reform in the global governance such as UN, OECD, G7, IMF, World Bank, NATO
Emerging actors in the Global architecture : SCO, BRICS.
Energy and climate change
Geopolitics and geoeconomics of energy resources and infrastructure
National energy policy regimes - factors, actors, processes, outputs, and outcomes
Energy policy reform (including climate change imperatives)
Political and regulatory risk 
Theory of global governance/international policy making
International/global policy regimes (particularly energy & climate) China-US relations and their impact on global and regional regimes
Global coalition building in reforming global architecture (Example of Internet Governance)
Iftikhar Lohdi
Nina Belyaeva

8. Materials

11. List of Partners- Internal (HSE)
Department of General Sociology (Nikita E. Pokrovsky)
Faculty of Communications, Media and Design (Iliya Kiriya)
Institute of Education (Isak Froumin)
Institute of Demography (Anatoly G. Vishnevsky)

12. List of Partners- External
European Consortium For Political Research (
Standing Group: Regulatory Governance
International Political Science Association
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Research Committees:
Comparative Public Policy (Michael Howlett)
Public Policy and Administration (Robert Hoppe)
Torino Law School
Central European University: Public Policy Department (
Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration,Diversity and Welfare, Department of Global Political Studies - Professor Bo Petersson. Malmö University, Sweden.

13. List of current research
Mahama Tawat (Migration and public management reform)
Sanjay Kumar Rajhans (Global citizenship and ideational space/information space)
Indra Prasetya Adi Nugroho (International community involvement in regional and nation-state conflict resolution)
Maria Yunilainen (Comparative Analysis of Inclusive Education Regimes in Russia)
Dmitry Burykin (The problem of EU Migration Policy Formulation and Implementation)
Katerina Uzoikina (Global virtual publics: the case of Charlie Hebdo)
Stadnik Ilona (Global coalition building in reforming global architecture (Example of Internet Governance)
Semenova Anna
Lykianova Anastasia

14. Journals The Journal of Social Policy Studies http://jsps.hse.ru/en/
Вопросы образования
Foresight Journal (
European Journal of Political Research (EJPR)
European Political Science (EPS)
European Political Science Review (EPSR)
International Political Science Review (IPSA)
International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA)

15. Activities Fortnightly meeting on Thursdays
Seminar, forum and ad hoc meetings.