This theme addresses key issues associated with insecurity, instability, uncertainty and rapid, far-reaching and sometimes unpredictable change.
Global Uncertainties
The Global Uncertainties theme aims to foster wide-ranging, high quality and cross-disciplinary research to address key issues associated with insecurity, instability, uncertainty and rapid, far-reaching and sometimes unpredictable change in an increasingly inter-connected world.
As well as promoting research of international quality, stakeholder engagement and impact will also be a key aspiration of the Global Uncertainties theme.
There are a number of inter-related research themes addressing the causes, consequences, amelioration and mitigation of uncertainty that affect the global economy covering a number of broadly-defined issues including:
- Conflict and security,
- resource insecurity, the variable geometry and uneven effects of globalisation, including distribution issues, and,
- the challenges from rising powers particularly India and China.
The Global Uncertainties theme draws on expertise across a number of disciplines (covering politics, business and economics, history and sociology) as well as established research clusters and centres (including the Strategy and Security Institute, Global and Imperial History, the Centre for War, State and Society, the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Centre for Advanced International Studies) and the recently-funded Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Centre for Risk and Ambiguity based in the Business School.
