How is the European Union navigating the challenges of a multipolar world? Our ninth Governance Dialogue examines China's economic and military rise, assesses the changing transatlantic relations under Donald Trump's influence, and analyzes global power shifts. The goal is to develop innovative economic and geopolitical strategies for the EU, promote its resilience, and consolidate its position as a significant player on the international stage.

Academics and practitioners can submit research papers, policy analyses, or case studies on the topics mentioned above.

Understanding regulatory policy? Through regulatory theory!

With the help of regulatory theory, delve deep into the fundamentals of regulatory policy – from its theoretical and philosophical origins to the influential thinkers and regulatory fathers such as Walter Eucken and Alfred Müller-Armack to the most important works of economic literature that have laid the foundation for this central economic policy model. This provides a comprehensive insight into the interplay of market mechanisms and state frameworks, which continues to shape the social market economy today and has made it one of the most successful economic models of the post-war period.

German regulatory policy is based on a social market economy with competition and social equality. Internationally, models such as Thatcherism and Reaganomics are present in the economy – characterized by deregulation and privatization. These various approaches are discussed in the Regulatory Policy section. Current partners who also engage in regulatory policy are also listed.

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Discuss. Shape. Change. – Our regulatory policy conferences

In this section, you will find reports from the "Ordnungspolitische Dialoge," an international conference series on regulatory policy in Zwickau and other locations. Established in 2007, this series is organized by the initiators of the Ordnungspolitische Portal in cooperation with the University of Tartu in Estonia and the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Seoul. You can also find current calls for papers in this section, which serve as an introduction to the dialogues.