
Conference online on October 22, 2025
Growing geopolitical tensions are seriously challenging the mechanisms of international economic governance inherited from the post WW2 era and boosted by the end of the Cold War. The combination of a transactional approach in international relations with a reorganization of value chains within ‘regional’ areas or alliances seems to reshuffle trade and financial flows, as well as the circulation of technologies and critical resources. Several major intergovernmental treaties are challenged and the institutions that were built to implement them are under stress.