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This talk asks how the world has taken a more governmental or nongovernmental approach to global problems across time and across issue area (education, health, labor and telecommunications), and explains why that has been the case. 

Alexandru Grigorescu, IO/IL Visiting Scholar, is an associate professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago. His research has primarily analyzed the relationship between changes in international organizations and those in the domestic realm. He is the author of Democratic Intergovernmental Organizations? Normative Pressures and Decision-Making Rules (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Prior to his academic career, he served as a diplomat in the Romanian Foreign Ministry and was posted to the Romanian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.

This is part of the Buffett Institute Faculty & Fellows Colloquium. Find it on Facebook.