Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals

The Master's in International Relations was the first to be launched and gets the larger inflow of students. It has an average of 90 students enrolled every year from more than 30 different nationalities. It's taught in two versions: bilingual (English-Spanish) and English, as well as full-time in one year or part-time in two.

It offers five areas of specialization: Conflict in Global Politics, Governance and Diplomacy, Environment and Sustainability, Global Political Economy, and The Politics of the MENA Region. The interdisciplinary programme aims to prepare students to understand the complexities of today's world and develop the necessary skills to pursue a career in the international arena from a wide range of academic backgrounds and geographical perspectives. IBEI has agreements with various international organizations, NGO, governments and multinational corporations to provide internships for students.[9]

The Master's in International Security is offered from 2012–13 and has an average of about 20 students every year from 15 different nationalities.

The master is taught in English and full-time in one year. The academic programme provides students with the necessary knowledge on political science, international relations, economics and global security for students looking to start a career in the area of Defense and International Security. The master has also a specific internship programme.[10]

One-year master taught from the academic year 2016-2017. Its interdisciplinary programme is aimed at providing students with knowledge in development from an international perspective. Professor Max Spoor, from the Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague and associate professor at IBEI, is in charge of designing the programme.

The Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Public Policy (Mundus MAPP) is a 2-year-long international Masters course funded by the European Commission. This programme is offered jointly by IBEI, Central European University in Budapest (Hungary), International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague (The Netherlands), and University of York (United Kingdom). Students may choose from the following specializations: Political Economy of Development, Governance and Development, European Public Policy and Global Public Policy.[11] The master has its own internship programme funded by the European Commission.

IBEI organizes every year a summer school within the sphere of international relations, global governance and international political economy. In previous years, courses were taught by internationally renowned academics such as Helen Milner or Andrew Moravcsik. IBEI also organizes other activities throughout the academic year, such as the Master in Diplomacy and Foreign Action with DIPLOCAT (Generalitat of Catalonia)[12] or Barcelona Gov' network courses, being IBEI one of the members together with the City of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University and IGOP (Autonomous University of Barcelona).[13]

Research programmes were focused in three areas: Global Governance, Networks and Institutions in a Global Economy, and Security, Power and Multilateralism in a Global World.[14] The research projects are funded mostly through competitive calls for papers from the European Commission, the Government of Spain, the Catalan Government and other public and private institutions. Since 2008, IBEI has obtained funding for around thirty research projects.

IBEI pays particular attention to the existing challenges to be overthrown for a more balanced and multipolar international system. The scientific production of the institute is focused on connecting the interests and concerns of today's society with the dynamics of globalization and internationalization. Likewise, IBEI encourages exchange and collaboration with other centers and research professionals in order to promote the production and dissemination of quality research.

IBEI has also conducted research projects with international teams such as CONSENSUS, EUCROSS, BEUCITIZEN, TRANSCRISIS (funded by the European Commission), EU-PERFORM, EUMARR or GLOBALDEMOS (funded by the Government of Spain). IBEI has a series of working papers that disseminate academic papers representing work in progress.[15] Every two years, IBEI publishes a research report with its activities and research results.

Global governance captures the changing patterns in which common problems are dealt with in today's increasingly interdependent world. Building on classical multilateral forms of cooperation, it encompasses today a bewildering array of actors and institutions. Public and private actors, formal and informal institutions, intergovernmental and transnational forms of regulation interact in an often uncoordinated, sometimes competitive, and typically highly complex structure. The research programme on global governance seeks to understand the shape of global governance, its changing legal and normative framework as well as accountability mechanisms as they are adapting to the changing institutional landscape. The research programme is coordinated by Nico Kirsch.[16]

The main areas of research are: International institutions and governance structures, Actors and networks in global regulatory governance, Forms of global authority, The legitimacy of global law, Constitutional interfaces between regimes in global governance and Popular sovereignty in the global order.

The aim of this research programme is to analyze the political and social context created by the acceleration of globalization processes from the last decade of the 20th onwards, including the intensification of trade integration processes at an international level and the dynamics of the new regionalism. From the perspective of political economy, a central concern of this programme are the changes in the composition and comparative strengths of the different actors participating in the creation of public institutions and policies, whether national or transnational. The research programme is coordinated by Juan Díez Medrano.[17]

The main thematic areas of research are: The dynamics and politics of development, The impacts of regional integration processes, The transnationalization of economic activities, The spread of policies and institutions and Democracy, states and growth.

The programme addresses different dimensions of the "new" security agenda, which incorporates problems of global scope (energy and environmental risks, transnational crime, global terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, massive population movements) that mutually reinforce both each other and traditional problems (armed conflicts, persistent poverty). Research is based on a multilateral logic, focusing on the effectiveness and legitimacy of the current security policies. The research programme is coordinated by Esther Barbé.[18]

The main thematic areas of research are: Multilateral security institutions, Construction of the global security agenda, Conflict management and prevention, Fragile state, globalization and armed conflict and The European Union in the security sphere.

IBEI has a Working Papers series to disseminate academic documents representing work in progress, such as literature reviews, papers to be presented at conferences, first versions of articles or seminar drafts. The aim of this series is to provide a medium for the early publication of ongoing research projects.

• Joan Clos (1949), Spanish politician who was mayor of Barcelona
• Fred Halliday (1946-2010), Irish writer and academic specialising in International Relations and the Middle East
• Mary Kaldor (1946), British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics
• Nico Krisch (1972), legal scholar, specializing in international law, constitutional theory, and global governance
• Branko Milanović (1953), Serbian-American economist
• Luis Peral (1967-2019), Spanish academic, analyst and facilitator who specialised in international law, human rights, international humanitarian law, forced migration, peacekeeping and peace-building, conflict analysis and private diplomacy
• Bernd Reiter, director of the Institute for The Study of Latin American and the Caribbean (ISLAC) and professor of political science for the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida
• Narcís Serra (1943), Spanish economist and politician, serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Spain from 1991 to 1995
• Martin Shaw (1947), British sociologist and academic