Full name and acronym: Hokkaido University Center for the Study of Globalization

Founding date: 2002

Objectives: to formulate an interdisciplinary approach to structural changes in political economy caused byglobalization, to analyze the various policy problems that accompany these changes, and from this basis to construct appropriate policy models.

Main projects in globalisation studies: how international institutions, states, and local governments copewith the various policy problems that accompany globalization; how governments and civil societies attempt to solve them; and how the structure of self-government is being transformed across policy fields.

Outputs: symposia, workshops, colloquia, framework seminars, articles and books; booklet series, newsletters;website; external presentations to academic and practitioner groups.

Staff numbers: 19 researchers and 4 support staff

Director: Professor Jiro Yamaguchi

Funding: Creative Scientific Research Grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

Street Address: Graduate School of Law, Hokkaido University, N9W7, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0809, Japan

tel: ++81-11-706-3798
fax: ++81-11-706-3798
email: globalg@juris.hokudai.ac.jp
website: http://www.global-g.jp/en/ (English)
website: http://www.global-g.jp/ (Japanese)