About the Lloyd George Study Group on Global Governance
The world confronts mounting great-power rivalry at a time when domestic economic and political developments pose potent challenges to stable governance from within. International competition is moving into technological and digital spaces, and globalized challenges such as climate change, pandemics, migration, and supply chain disruptions rise in urgency.
To address these challenges, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and the Phelan US Centre launched the Lloyd George Study Group on Global Governance. Consisting of 10 core members, with broad regional representation globally, the study group focuses on global governance, broadly defined. Its mandate is to analyze and debate the shape of the emerging international system, how to adapt existing international institutions and policies to a rapidly changing landscape, and what new structures and arrangements might be needed to advance global governance. The Lloyd George Study Group on Global Governance aims to make a meaningful contribution to both scholarly and public debate and help close the growing gap between the demand for and the supply of global governance.
Lloyd George Study Group Meetings
Meeting 1
Date: 17-18 November 2022
Host: Georgetown University
Topic: The emerging structure of the international system, including the implications of great power rivalry, rising nationalism and economic inequality for global governance.
Public event: Governing the World to Come, 17 November 2022.
Watch a recording of the public event, Governing the World to Come [Zoom}
Meeting 2
Date: 1-2 June 2023
Host: LSE
Topic: Political capacities for global governance inside key countries and regions
Public event: Global Governance in an Age of Fracture, 1 June 2023
Meeting 3
Date: 9-10 November 2023
Host: Georgetown University, Doha, Qatar
Topic: Global challenges, including climate change, rising political polarization, and the growing global distrust in governance
Public event: Global Governance in an Age of Fracture, 9 November 2023
Meeting 4
Date: 25-27 April 2024
Host: Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Topic: Reforming global governance
Public event: China’s Changing Relations with the Rest of the World, 26 April 2024
The Lloyd George Study Group on Global Governance held its first meeting at Georgetown in November 2022, with the emerging structure of the international system as its topic. Meeting participants discussed the implications of great power rivalry, rising nationalism and economic inequality for global governance, and how changes to existing global institutions and practices can help provide better governance. The meeting was accompanied by a Georgetown public event Governing the World to Come on 17 November 2022.
The second meeting of the Lloyd George Study Group on Global Governance was held at LSE on 1-2 June 2023. The meeting explored political capacities for global governance inside key countries and regions, and examined how state fragility, economic insecurity, and populism, nationalism, and other ideological forces are shaping the possibilities for international cooperation in the near and long term. This meeting was accompanied by the LSE public event Global Governance in an Age of Fracture on 1 June 2023.
This initiative honors British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and his role in guiding the First World War to a close and forging a new post-war order. It is co-financed by the Phelan US Centre and the Lloyd George family gift to Georgetown University.
