Programme of the conference
Risks and Opportunities in the Civil Society –
Public Institutions Relationship
Re-Assessing the EU and Global Policy
Process
LUISS University – School of Government and Department of Political Science
7-9 May 2015
LUISS - Campus viale Pola 12, Rome, Italy
Provisional (II draft 9-Feb-16)
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In the complex system of global politics, the relationship between governmental and nongovernmental actors is more and more central. In the last decades, global governance has provided
civil society organizations with new opportunities to influence public decisions at the international
level. Civil society actors are present in different forms in all the phases of the international policy
process: in the agenda setting, in the policy decision, implementation, monitoring, and finally in the
policy evaluation. From the preliminary consultations of think tanks and interest groups in the
agenda setting of many issues in the EU governance to the participation of indigenous and peasant
groups to the revised Food Security Committee at FAO. As experts in different private standard
setting bodies such as ICANN, and as stakeholders in hybrid global initiative such as the Global
Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria that includes philanthropic foundations, grassroots
organizations and firms. In the implementation of so many international public services, often
through the formula of Private-Public Partnership (PPP), from disaster relief to development aid and
democracy promotion, as well as in the monitoring and assessment of many international public
policies such as those on human rights. Last but not least in political significance, in less formalized
contexts, the relationship between governments and non-governmental actors is equally very
intense. Suffice to think about the Syrian or the Ukrainian conflicts and the role of rebel, combatant,
and terrorist groups in it, often with strong identitarian or religious connotations. “Civil” and
“uncivil” society is ubiquitous, and at time decisive, though its participation remains often very
controversial.
The aim of the conference is discuss the different and many faces of the relationship between civil
society actors and public institutions, both governmental and intergovernmental ones. The
conference goals is to gather both scholars and practitioners in a single dialogue inclusive but larger
than the mainstream western narrative. It is in fact a firm assumption of the conference that the civil
society-public institutions dynamics is politically significant in all areas of the world. Both sides of
the coin of the public/private relationship will be addressed: Presentations will deal with both the
cooperative and the competitive/contentious relationship between governmental and nongovernmental organizations in all the different phases of the policy process. Also, both legal and
covered activities will be discussed.
Civil society has long been an object of study. Labelled differently as civil society organizations,
non-governmental organizations, non-state actors, social movements, interest groups, third sector or
the like, what has been a common theme underpinning all these approaches has been the tension
with public institutions. Such relationship has at times been overlooked, but always remained
important in analytical terms. Both as cooperation and as competition, the relationship between
public and private actor is crucial in order to understand many of the political dynamics occurring in
today’s global politics.
In scholarly terms, the conference aims to build bridges between different strands of academic and
policy research that have looked at these actors under the differing lens of security, aid and
development, public policy, global governance, contentious politics, democratization, human rights
and democracy promotion, religious mobilizations, or public diplomacy.
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The conference is the final event of the Jean
Monnet Module on EU’s Engagement with
Civil Society hold by prof. Raffaele Marchetti
and funded by the European Commission,
EACEA (contract n.: 529096-LLP-1-2012-1IT-529096-AJM-MO)
Further financial support is generously
provided by the US Embassy in Italy, LUISS
Department of Political Science, and LUISS
School of Government.
The conference is organized under the
patronage of the Italian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and International Cooperation.
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7 May Thu
14:30-17:00
17:00-17:30
17:30-18:15
18:15-19:30
8 May Fri
9-10:15
10:15-10:45
10:45-12:00
12:00-14:00
14:00-15:15
15:15-15:45
15:45-17:00
17:00-17:30
17:30-18:45
9 May Sat
9-10:15
10:15-10:45
10:45-12
12-13
Plenary
Coffee
Plenary
Parallel
panels
Aula Colonne
Room 102
Introduction;
Welcome
Remarks; Roundtable
Aula Colonne 2
Cerny
EU hybrid coalitions in Food governance
global governance
Plenary
Coffee
Parallel
panels
Lunch
Plenary
Coffee
Parallel
panels
Coffee
Parallel
panels
Raouf + Fioramonti
Plenary
Coffee
Parallel
panels
Lebedeva + Deng
Plenary
Concluding debate
Dynamics of Development Civil
Society
in
through Civil Society
Phases of Transition
Bob + Youngs
EU democracy promotion
Global-local nexus
Framing the public-private Local cases
partnership
The Risks of Revolutions
Public private
partnership
EU-Interest
Groups
Interaction
Patterns of societal
influence
on
international
organizations
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7 May Thursday
14:30-17:00
Plenary
(Aula Colonne)
Welcome Remarks
Massimo Egidi - LUISS, Rector
Introduction
Raffaele Marchetti - LUISS, Asst Professor
Roundtable
Lapo Pistelli - Italy, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs
Kathleen A. Doherty - USA, Deputy Chief of Mission (tbc)
Giampaolo Di Paola – Italy, Former Minister of Defense
Leonardo Morlino - LUISS Guido Carli, Vice-Rector for Research
Moderator
Alessandro Amati – Askanews, Vice-Director
Public debate
17:00-17:30
Coffee
17:30-18:15
Plenary
(Aula Colonne)
Philip Cerny - Rutgers University-Newark
Transnational Neopluralism in a Neoliberal World: The Limits of Global Public Policymaking
18:15-19:30 Parallel panels
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Food governance
(Aula Colonne)
Chair: tbd
Hernan Manson - International Trade Centre
A multi-stakeholder governance framework for improved value chain support policies, Food and
Nutrition Security
Yannick Fiedler - Sciences Po
Civil Society Engagement in the Committee on World Food Security 2010-2014: From the Promise
of Participatory Democracy to Co-Optation?
Nora McKeon - Independent
The reformed Committee on World Food Security: a privileged laboratory for assessing risks and
opportunities in the civil society-public institutions relationship
EU hybrid coalitions in global governance (Room 102)
Chair: Maria Giulia Amadio - LUISS
Pawel P. Pustelnik - Cardiff University
European Commission’s sing‐along: civil society as a last resort in the European Union Emissions
Trading Scheme debate
Cynthia Salloum - EHESS
The bargaining power of diasporas: risk and opportunity for EU foreign policy making
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8 May Friday
9-10:15
Plenary
(Aula Colonne)
Heba Raouf - University of Cairo
The Societal, the Public and the Military: Bringing Civility Back In
Lorenzo Fioramonti - University of Pretoria
Beyond State, Market and Civil Society: A New Approach to Governance Innovation
10:15-10:45 Coffee
10:45-12:00 Parallel panels
Political Communication by Civil Society (Room 102)
Chair: Antonio La Spina – LUISS
Melek Saral - University of Zurich
Discourses of Egyptian Women’s Rights NGOs
Raffaele Marchetti, Paolo Peverini, Matteo Cernison - LUISS/EUI
Framing Transnational Mobilizations
Kerstin Tomiak - Cardiff University
Media effects on state capacity in conflict prone societies
Dynamics of Development through Civil Society
(Aula Colonne)
Chair: Nathalie Tocci - IAI
Igor Pellicciari - University of Salento
“Feeding the Trojan Horse” Public International Aid to NGOs as a political tool of international
relations"
Chiara Pierobon – University of Bielefeld
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The new EU development agenda: empirical evidence from Kazakhstan
Daniela Irrera - University of Catania
NGOs and the EU emergencies response policies: a quantitative analysis of the relations with
States and EU institutions
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15
Plenary
(Aula Colonne)
Clifford Bob - Duquesne University and the Transatlantic Academy
Foreign Government Support for Threatened Civil Societies: Helpful or Harmful?
Richard Youngs - Carnegie Europe
Trends in civil society support
15:15-15:45 Coffee
15:45-17:00 Parallel panels
EU democracy promotion
(Aula Colonne)
Chair: Daniele Archibugi – CNR
Enrico Fassi - University of Bologna
A new role for civil society in EU democracy promotion? A theoretical view
Gergana Noutcheva - Maastricht University
Societal Empowerment and Europeanisation: Revisiting the EU’s Impact on Democratisation
Valentina Gevorgyan - American University of Armenia
Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum Revisited
Global-local nexus
(Room 102)
Chair: Giovanni Moro – Fondaca
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Maria Martin de Almagro - ULB/LUISS
UN missions and local civil society: Necessary partners or strange bedfellows in peacebuilding?
Valérie Julie Boiten - KUL
The Outsider: Making Sense of Externally Sponsored Rapprochements between Civil Society and
Local Authorities
Diana Margarit - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
Local Struggles and Global Rebounds. Civil society vs. political authorities
Public private partnership
(Aula colonne 2)
Chair: Daniele Gallo – LUISS
d’Etat Kunihiko Tatsuzawa, Satoko Kawamura - Ritsumeikan University
Global Civil Society and Global Law: Public Private Partnership in Advanced Science and
Technology
Paolo Garonna, Matteo Cuda - LUISS, FeBAP
Banking Union and Capital Markets Union: the redefinition of the private and the public sector’s
role in the EU
Giampiero Giacomello - University of Bologna
The Invisible Hand: Europe’s Public-Private Partnership and the Security of Critical Information
infrastructures
17:00-17:30 Coffee
17:30-18:45 Parallel panels
Public-private partnership II (Aula Colonne)
Chair: Lyal S. Sunga (IDLO)
Nicoletta Pirozzi - IAI
Promoting stability and development in Sub-Saharan Africa: fostering cooperation between the
public and private sectors
Nikita Konopaltsev - Moscow Lomonosov State University
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Civil Society-Public Institutions in the Frame of the Dialogue of Civilizations Theory
Daniela Casula - Fondazione Patrizio Paoletti
A global Government-Civil Society cooperative model in the light of the post-2015 framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
Local cases
(Room 102)
Chair: Francesca Corrao - LUISS
Tania Haddad - American University of Beirut
State-Civil Society relationship: the case of Lebanon
Silvia Menegazzi - LUISS
From contentious engagement to policy entrepreneurs: discussing think tanks’ functions and
limitations in contemporary China
Dmytro Volodin - Polish Academy of Science
The local authorities and citizens trust: case of participatory budgeting in Warsaw
EU-Interest Groups Interaction
(Aula colonne 2)
Chair: Giovanni Orsina - LUISS
Marsida Bandilli - University of Antwerp
Interest Groups Coalition Formation and the Degrees of Mobilization in Cross-Border Cooperation
Programmes
Giuseppe Montalbano - LUISS
Asymmetric patterns in the interest groups’ access to the EU policy-making: a reassessment
Aleksandra Lis, Piotr Stankiewicz, Agata Stasik - Adam Mickiewicz University, Nicholas
Copernicus University, Koźmiński University
Civil society vs. governments and EU-level institution: The role of local protests in the European
policy process on shale gas
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9 May Saturday
9-10:15
Plenary
(Aula Colonne)
Marina Lebedeva - MGIMO
Resources of influence in world politics: states and non-state actors
Chien-Chung Huang, Guosheng Deng, Yang Wang - Rutgers University; Tsinghua University
The Relationship of NGOs and Government in China
10:15-10:45 Coffee
10:45-12 Parallel panels
The Risks of Revolutions
(Aula Colonne)
Chair: Melina Decaro - LUISS
Angélica Rodríguez - Universidad del Norte
The challenging identity of the social movements as strategy for opposition integration in the Color
Revolutions, and its connection with a democratizing speech
Mykhailo Minakov - University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
The Third Sector entering The First. Cooperation and Competition of Civil Society, State and
Oligarchs after Ukrainian Maidan
Cecilia Sottilotta - LUISS
Political Risk Perception by Governmental and Corporate Actors in the wake of the recent
developments in the Mediterranean and Eurasian regions: thinking about a Theoretical Framework
of Analysis
Patterns of societal influence on international organizations
(Room 102)
Chair: Mattia Guidi - LUISS
Marcel Hanegraaff and Arlo Poletti - University of Amsterdam; LUISS
How global is global governance?
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Sabrina Marchetti - EUI
C189: a tool for States or for paid domestic workers? Examples from Ecuador and India
Kseniya Oksamytna - LUISS / Universite Geneve
The Role of Think Tanks and NGOs in Promoting the Agenda on the Protection of Civilians in
Peacekeeping
12-13 Plenary
(Aula Colonne)
Concluding debate
Raffaele Marchetti – LUISS
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