There are six potential Challenges for this year, and we want to hear from you about which Challenges you would be most interested in taking part in. Student voting is now open to determine which Challenges will run, and the top four winning Challenges from the vote will take place in June 2023.
2023 De-Globalisation
De-Globalisation
Challenge Overview
With more and more countries tightening their rules on migration, going back on free trade and even justifying self-sufficiency because of the unreliability of global supply chains, this is an opportunity to students to evaluate what is happening and what should be done about it.
Trade liberalisation has been a weapon for development and against poverty, while migration to a richer country is the single most important thing most people can do to improve their economic prospects. How can the tide of de-globalisation be reversed? And are there any situations where it should actually be welcomed? Has globalisation damaged the environment or sharpened inequality?
Students in this challenge will publish a report of their conclusions by the end of Grand Challenges week.
Guest speakers include the Former Chancellor Sajid Javid MP (University of Exeter Economics and Politics graduate).
Who is it for?
You don’t need specialist knowledge of any one subject to take part. Students doing business studies, economics, geography, or politics and international relations might be particularly interested but we want to attract students from across the university.
This challenge would run on Streatham Campus.
Enquiry Groups
Enquiry groups are the subtopic of the challenge that students will focus on for Grand Challenges Week. These are the enquiry groups that would run on the De-globalisation Challenge in June 2023:
How has the emergence of global value chains changed the way we think about the costs and benefits of globalisation?
No country in the world has completely free migration but what kind of countries would gain from loosening the rules?
Putting on tariffs always benefits someone (by restricting competition) but why do the minority of beneficiaries have such political clout? Could this ever actually be a good thing?
Is it a matter of looking for alternative, perhaps inferior, suppliers? How can relations be improved with existing suppliers?
What is the best policy response if securing a global supply chain proves impossible?
When it is right to use sanctions as a weapon even if this damages supply chains? Taking Russia’s war on Ukraine as an example, how could they be made more effective? And what does the sanctioner do if the sanctioned one retaliates?
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