Research programme
Research with LAC-EU
LAC-EU will develop and promote a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and up-to-date framework to understand LAC multi-level governance and its relation with the EU.
LAC-EU Conceptual Map
LAC-EU doctoral projects will concentrate on different governance levels, under an overreaching framework: 1) domestic governance, to identify social and political problems within countries; 2) regional governance, to identify issues with a new significance for the region as a whole; 3) global reach, to assess soft power sources and instruments; 4) interregional relations, to examine the dynamics of bi-regional interactions in both formal and informal settings; and 5) global governance to identify the region’s new global role in world politics.
LAC-EU will create an integrated framework to explore: 1) the ‘horizontal interplay’ or the linkages of policies and institutions across sectors; and 2) the ‘vertical interplay’ as the interaction of policies and institutions between levels of governance, from the domestic and the regional, to the global, the interregional, and the multilateral levels. This approach will unpack cross-sector and cross-level interactions and interdependencies and produce a richer understanding of the complex challenges that cut across policy areas and institutional levels. This will be done in five interconnected and coherent work packages.
Research focuses on two axes:
1) Democracy, politics and human rights
2) Trade, climate change and market risks
The twelve LAC-EU research projects
* R07 and R08 are funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).