In 2008 the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy conducted a grant competition that yielded three multi-year interdisciplinary projects. These three collaboratives along with an ongoing project on new governance will anchor WAGE’s programming through 2011. Each collaborative supports an active scholarly dialogue, graduate student training, campus events, and public outreach activities. Click on a collaborative's title to learn more about these exciting research initiatives. For more information on our grant competition, see our Grants page.

Governing Global Energy
The WAGE Governing Global Energy project will identify emerging conflicts arising from changing energy policies, examine how they relate to existing global governance mechanisms, and assess the preparedness of those mechanisms for tackling these new conflicts.

Managing Import Safety
The WAGE Managing Import Safety Collaborative examines market, regulatory, and hybrid approaches to managing risk from contamination of food commodities in the global supply chain.

New Governance
The WAGE New Governance Collaborative investigates new approaches to public administration, regulation, and law that arise out of efforts to promote international economic integration while, at the same time, preserving and updating distinctive national and local social and environmental protections.

Remaking the Developmental State
The WAGE Remaking the Developmental State Collaborative analyzes the changing role of law, politics, and the state in economic development in China, India, Brazil, and South Africa.

Details on past WAGE Collaboratives can be viewed here.