The Institute, as part of the broader community at the IUC, hosts a number of Programs and Initiatives. The research agenda of the Institute is broadly set by its foster an interdisciplinary research-based forum for innovative collaboration and consultant research by emerging and established scholars and practitioners from diverse geography, ideology and disciplinary perspectives to address the growing challenges facing the global hegemony of liberalism. In particular, research at the IUC is exploring the framework of the "Commons," as a source of new strategies and tactics to not only retool, but also possible restructure institutional arrangements in domestic and global settings.
The Institute's Programs and Initiatives include: