Reiterative Policy Divergence—Explaining the Processes of Political Change
Tristan Kenderdine argues that during a period of global…
Global Britain or Little Britain? We May Find Out this Week
Sam Nadel, Oxfam’s Head of Policy and Advocacy, reflects on a bad…
Testing Our Way Out of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov and Min Zhu introduce a recent IMF paper…
Solve Suffering by Blowing up the Universe? The Dubious Philosophy of Human Extinction
Thomas Moynihan explores extreme solutions to humanities' tendency to…
Peacekeeping in Nagorno-Karabakh: Will the Scandinavians Contribute?
While a degree of calm has returned to the Nagorno-Karabakh region,…
Early View Article - Internet Fragmentation, Political Structuring, and Organizational Concentration in Transnational Engineering Networks
Is the internet at risk of fragmentation? Whereas the literature has…
Early View Article - Managing Land‐based CDR: BECCS, Forests and Carbon Sequestration
Decisions about when, where and how to achieve widespread carbon…
Early View Article - Carbon‐dioxide Removal and Biodiversity: A Threat Identification Framework
Carbon‐dioxide removal (CDR) technologies offer the potential to…
Measuring the Economic Risk of COVID‐19
We measure the economic risk of COVID‐19 at a geo‐spatially detailed…
Whither Security Cooperation in the BRICS? Between the Protection of Norms and Domestic Politics Dynamics
This paper argues that the BRICS are status quo powers concerning two…
Early View Article - Parametric Insurance for Solar Geoengineering: Insights from the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative
Solar geoengineering (SG) entails using technology to modify the…
Regional Integration, Health Policy and Global Health
Although regional integration processes are mainly shaped around…
Global Regulations for a Digital Economy: Between New and Old Challenges
Digital technologies are often described as posing unique challenges…
Enhancing Europe’s Global Power: A Scenario Exercise with Eight Proposals
In the present context of intensifying competition between the major…
New Petro‐aggression in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia in the Spotlight
That hydrocarbon abundance may lead to more violence is an…
The US National Security Strategy: Competing for Supremacy in a Multipolar World with a Unipolar Strategy
Thirty years after becoming a hegemonic power, the United States of…
What National Decision‐makers Need From The IPCC: Special Reports With New Insights
What decision‐makers in countries want to know from science is more…
The SDGs: Changing How Development is Understood
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitute a truly…
Political Thriller Exposes the Underbelly of Global Goals
This commentary characterizes the SDG indicator framework as a ‘…
A Quantum Leap in Energy Efficiency to Put the Sustainable Development Goals in Closer Reach
Targeted improvements in the way energy is transformed, distributed…
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Anthony McGrew is Professor of Global Public Policy in the College of Liberal Arts at Shanghai University ,Shanghai (2019- ) and also Special Visiting Professor at the…
Patrick Dunleavy studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating in 1973. He moved to Nuffield College, Oxford to work on his D.…