Call for Contributions: Article for the CS3D Blog Series

Following a period of turmoil and subsequent re-negotiation, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive(CS3D) was adopted by the European Parliament on April 24, 2024.  The focus now lies on its implementation and the scientific evaluation of its effects. Consequently, there is a pressing need for scholarly contributions that highlight sector-specific challenges as well as cross-cutting issues to inform the political debate.

For this reason, the Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains is launching a blog series focused on challenges associated with the implementation of the CS3D. The inaugural article „The European CSDDD law is coming after all – What can we make of the compromise?” compares the initial CSDDD agreement of December 2023, the final version adopted in April 2024, and the German Due Diligence Law, and sets the stage for a series of forthcoming blog posts. Over the coming months, we will publish articles aimed at enriching the political discourse on due diligence regulations with scientific research findings. We invite researchers from our network as well as other researchers working in the field of GVCs, international relations, sustainable development and international economics to submit their ideas for an article to be featured in the blog series.

Contributions may focus on issues such as:

The proposal should include (1) an abstract of the article (max. 400 words) indicating the theme/main research question(s) of the blog article, and (2) a brief description of the researcher(s). We kindly ask to send bids by August 2, 2024 to the following e-mail address: LeaMaria.Strack@swp-berlin.org.

Guidelines for the blog are presented below. We are looking forward to your proposals!

Blog article guidelines

Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains

The Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and aims to synthesize and process existing knowledge and initiate new research on sustainable global value chains for evidence-based policy recommendations. The project is jointly led by the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS, Bonn), the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA, Hamburg), the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW, Kiel), and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP, Berlin).