Institutions

Black Voices Matter: Does Systemic or Implicit Bias Freeze the Careers of Black Academics?

With staggeringly low representation of black staff among academics, how can we ensure constructive change and a ‘mindshift’ across the system?

EU Return Sponsorships – High Stakes, Low Gains?

What is the Main Source of Unresolved Machine Learning Ethical Concerns?

System and algorithmic bias, misrepresentation and transparency issues are some of the ethical concerns in machine learning that need to be addressed.

Annual Report 2020

In 2020, UNU-CRIS adapted to the COVID-19 crisis, implementing a new research cluster structure and securing restored core funding for global mandate.

Trading Places: The Politics of the WTO Director-General Selection and the Implications for the EU Trade Strategy

2020 Year in Review

As COVID-19 accelerated worldwide digital transformation, UNU Macau is working to better combine digital technologies and sustainable development.

The State of Paradiplomacy: Sub-State Entities as the Better Representatives of Population? Towards an Analytical Framework

The Local, the National and the International: Diplomacy Transformation and SubState Responses A Study of State Coherence and Constituent Emancipation

Inequality and governance in unstable democracies – the mediating role of trust

This project seeks to provide new insights and empirical evidence on how trust shapes the relationship between economic inequality and governance.

The state and statebuilding in the Global South – international and local interactions

This project focuses on the state and statebuilding in the Global South with attention to the interaction between international and local actors, institutions, and context.