Research corpus
These archives host an original corpus of analytical research on global cultural and political change since the fall of the Berlin wall. This corpus is embodied in reports, interviews, papers and studies, and notes.
Our past research closely monitored the agenda of the postmodern agents of change who hijacked the global consensus-building exercise of the 1990s. It reflects the doctrinaire thrust which historically characterized many global governance initiatives in the 1990s. Some of these initiatives, such as the Earth Charter, never materialized or proved to be failures, but they were indicative of the direction set by the agents of change.
We now live in different times. The global cultural revolution is over: its norms have won the day and are globally implemented, but the process has lost steam. It is becoming clear that the revolution has ushered in incoherence, a painful and dangerous vacuum, but also in unprecedented opportunities to return to what is real and good.
The analysis of the challenges of the global cultural revolution was necessary to identify the issues the revolution left unresolved. Our new focus is positive and calls on our creativity and responsibility to tackle those issues.
IIS Reports
IIS reports offer detailed analysis of the challenges of the post-cold war UN conference process, efforts to reform international organizations through partnership with transnational agents of change, and the new global, postmodern ethic.
Interviews
Many of them part of IIS reports, interviews with leading experts and policy-makers offer first-hand information on the issues at stake in the new global culture.
Papers and studies
Longer, synthetical documents addressing the "big picture".
Notes
Shorter documents monitoring a single event of relevance to the issues we address.