Research Unit

United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies

Information

Members

Acronym

UNU-CRIS

Duration

05 February 2020 → Ongoing

Faculties

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Faculty of Political and Social Sciences

Group leader

Ine Lietaert

Other information

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Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Transregional studies
- Comparative study of regions
- Studies of regions not elsewhere classified
Social sciences
- International economics
- Urban, rural and regional economics
- Development planning and policy
- Economic development
- Economic systems and institutions
- Econometric and statistical methods and methodology
- Econometric modelling
- European law
- International law
- International trade law
- Legal institutions
- Immigration
- Comparative politics
- Defence studies
- Democratisation
- Development studies
- Diplomacy
- Environmental politics
- European union politics
- Globalisation
- Institutions and regimes
- International politics
- Political economy
- Regionalisation and decentralisation
- Security, peace and conflict
- International and comparative politics not elsewhere classified
- Federalism
- Local and urban politics
- Multilevel governance not elsewhere classified
- International public administration
- Economic geography
- Geography of mobility and transportation
- Economic geography not elsewhere classified
- Cultural geography
- Health geography
- Political geography
- Social geography
- Human geography not elsewhere classified
- Urban and regional geography
- Urban and regional geography not elsewhere classified
- Migration
- Population trends and policies
- Arts and cultural policy
- Communications and media policy
- Crime policy
- Economic development policy
- Education policy
- Environment policy
- Health policy
- Public administration
- Public policy
- Research, science and technology policy
- Social policy
- Tourism policy
- Policy and administration not elsewhere classified
- Policy and administration not elsewhere classified
- Counselling, welfare and community services
- Social work not elsewhere classified
- Ethnicity and migration studies
Engineering and technology
- Urban and regional design
- Urban and regional development
- Urban and regional planning policy, instruments and legislation
- Urbanism and regional planning
- Urban and regional design, development and planning not elsewhere classified

Description

The United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) is a research and training institute of the United Nations University, in collaboration with Ghent University, de Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Flemishgovernment. It focuses on the study of processes of global cooperation and regional integration and their implications. It acts as a resource for the UN system, with particular links to the UN bodies dealing with regional integration, and works in partnership with institutes and initiatives throughout the world that are concerned with issues of integration and the provision of public goods.