Alexander Gaus, doctoral researcher at WIPCAD, recently was a visting researcher at Georgetown University. Between April and June 2015, he joined the Mortara Center for International Studies, which is part of Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
The Mortara Center for International Studies promotes interdisciplinary research to advance policy-relevant knowledge about international, political, social, and economic issues, and to generate communities of research and practice on key global concerns.
At the Mortara Center, Alexander Gaus studied the International Competition Network, which is a network of more than 130 national competition and anti-trust agencies which seeks to create a global-level playing field on the topic of competition policy. He conducted interviews with Washington-based competition experts and members of the network, and the insights he generated have already become an essential part of his research on transgovernmental networks, a new form of organizing global governance.
Part of his findings were presented at the recent International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP) in Milan, 1-3 July 2015 with a paper on power and control in transgovernmental networks (work in progress).