Global policy-making above and beyond states? The

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Global policy-making above and beyond states? The international organizations within the global governance of cultural industries Dr. Antonios Vlassis, FNRS-Research Fellow Centre for International Relations Studies, University of Liège. Introduction Cultural goods and services, between symbolic and material production. Their treatment has been the subject of growing interest at the international level. Global governance of cultural industries based on two major issues: on the one hand, the cultural exception affecting cultural goods and services in international economic exchanges; on the other hand, the link between culture and development. Convention on the protection and the promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions (CDCE)- adopted by UNESCO in 2005. Membership of 138 States and of the European Union (EU) A main international public instrument within the global governance of cultural industries. By global governance of cultural industries, I mean a system for organizing the relations of power and of regulation at the world level; it is composed of rules, norms and institutions, affecting several aspects of cultural goods and services (creation, production, distribution, exhibition, status of artist, etc.) and allowing the involved actors to coordinate their practices in a context of disaggregated sovereignty, of polyarchic authority and of absence of global government. Introduction The literature on the global governance of cultural industries remains mainly state-centric. Original view on the global governance of cultural industries, and in particular on the international norms application, focusing on the cooperation among the international organisations (IOs). Global policy-making, IOs and IR theory: Neorealism, Neoliberal institutionalism, Social Constructivism, Principal-agent theory. Understand the ways of the IOs cooperation, how the administrations of the international and regional organizations interact each other within the context of the global governance of cultural industries. Analyze the policy process through which the IOs cooperation is formulated within the global governance of cultural industries and understand the different types of the IOs cooperation and the various dysfunctions of the cooperation. 1. Five types of the IOs cooperation 1. Technical cooperation and good practices recommendations Pilot multiagency project (2008-2011) ‘Strengthening the creative industries in five ACP countries through employment and trade expansion’ implemented by three international organizations, UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) , the International Labor Organization (ILO) and UNESCO with financing aid from the European Commission and with the institutional support from the ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) Groups. UNESCO-European Commission: expert facility project (2010-2014) funded by the EU in order to implement