Metagoverning interactive governance arenas to negotiate the Northern Ireland peace process

Abstract

This seminar builds on a Leverhulme Early Career funded research project. It bridges History with Political Science and theories of metagovernance to explore the genesis of the supporting framework which helped to sustain the constitutional setting initiated by the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, and to assess how Brexit impacts on British-Irish relations. Findings reflect critically on metagovernance as a theoretical lens to be applied to research in fields other than public administration. In particular, findings aim to offer an alternative account of how complex governance arrangements between the island of Ireland and the UK have developed, and of how they could be redesigned in the post-Brexit era.

Speaker

Giada Lagana 

University of Cardiff

Bio

Dr Giada Lagana is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow and a Lecturer in Politics in the department of Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University, School of Law and Politics. Giada obtained a BA in Italian and History at the University of Pavia. Moreover, she holds an MA in International Relations (Université de La Rochelle, France) and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Galway (Ireland). Her research has been funded both nationally and internationally. She has held visiting teaching and research positions in Germany, France, Ireland, Denmark and the USA. Since 2022, sha has been the President of the Irish Association for Contemporary European Studies (IACES), for which she coordinates an Erasmus+ - Jean Monnet Activities Support to Institutions and Associations grant. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK). Her first monograph, The European Union and the Northern Ireland Peace Process (Palgrave, 2021), outlines the European Union’s approach to conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland. She has also published extensively on Irish contemporary Politics, Cross-Border Cooperation and metagovernance.