Donald Trump was sworn into his second period as President of the United States on 20 January 2025. Since then, the Trump administration has raised alarms for people around the world who are concerned over what this will mean for the current geopolitical landscape. Join a panel of experts to discuss how the first two months of the Trump administration have impacted the international system and global geopolitics.
2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the first United Nations World Conference on Women (Mexico City, 1975), a process that led to the creation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). The Global Transformations and Governance Challenges Programme organised a roundtable to reflect on prospects for global women's rights today, particularly amidst geopolitical shifts and tensions, heightened nationalism and populism. As ever, our panel assembled perspectives from different disciplines and faculties.
Our GTGC community joined climate finance experts to discuss how climate finance landscape has changed since 2015. During this panel, researchers shared the findings of one of the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) Programme's seed grand projects.
Amidst concerns over what the re-election of Donald Trump will mean for the international system, Prof. Dr. Jan Aart Scholte gave a Cleveringa Lecture titled ‘Trump, geopolitics and the future of globalization’ on 28 November 2024.
Geopolitical events affect Europe un a myriad of ways far beyond trade and defence. They also impact areas such as the environment, migration, technology, EU enlargement, multilateralism, and the rules-based international order more generally. Three GTGC researchers participated in a panel discussion on these topics the past 15 November 2024.
The University of Tokyo hosted the 2024 edition of the Owada Chair. GTGC's Prof. dr. Jan Aart Scholte and Prof. dr. Eric De Brabandere attended the session in representation of Leiden University.
GTGC received a delegation from the Beijing Foreign Studies University. The group exchanged views on the future of multilateralism and international cooperation.
Students and researches from all faculties at Leiden University attended a lunch seminar to discuss with four topic experts the rise of AI and the challenges this poses for various governance structures. The event was hosted by Leiden University’s interdisciplinary programmes GTGC and SAILS.
On 10 June, GTGC Chair Prof. Jan Aart Scholte, together with Soledad Garcia Ferrari of the University of Edinburgh, spoke at the launch of The Hague Global Futures Hub.
GTGC looks back on another successful edition of its annual conference. From 5 to 7 June, the programme held its third international conference, this year with the theme 'Emerging Trends in Global Governance'.
