Monitoring Regional Integration
This cluster aims to develop tools for monitoring and assessing regional integration processes worldwide as well as contribute to prospective thinking about regionalism. This cluster consist partly out of basic research aimed at evaluating existing analytical techniques and the development of new tools for retrospective measurements and prospective foresight and forecasting of regional integration processes.
Next to this, the focus lays upon the delivery of monitoring services for the academic and policy-making communities. The latter will be achieved through the development and maintenance of a web-based portal (RIKS: The “Regional Integration Knowledge System”) and through the publication of an annual World Report in collaboration with UNCTAD and the five UN Regional Economic Commissions. Main research projects under this cluster are:
