Formal and Actual Similarities between Climate Change and Global Inequality, and Suboptimality of the Nation-State
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Energy and Ideas—Not a Happy History
Scott L. Montgomery explores how climate change deniers have had…
Climate Change: A Climate Scientist Answers Questions from Teenagers
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Why Growth Can't be Green
Jason Hickel argues that we have to rethink our obsession with growth…
A World Political Party: The Time Has Come
Such a party would contribute to the formation of a global demos – a…
Early View Article - The Political Economy of ‘Tax Spillover’: A New Multilateral Framework
Tax spillovers are the effects one country's tax rules and practices…
Early View Article - Sulfur in the Sky with Diamonds: An Inquiry into the Feasibility of Solar Geoengineering
Solar geoengineering (SG) is considered a promising, albeit…
Understanding American Power: Conceptual Clarity, Strategic Priorities, and the Decline Debate
What does it mean for the United States to be powerful? The prospect…
Catastrophic Climate Change and Forest Tipping Points: Blind Spots in International Politics and Policy
Scientists believe that humanity has already crossed the core…
Tailoring for Development: China's Post‐crisis Influence in Global Financial Governance
China's increasing engagement in global financial governance since…
The Big (data) Bang: Opportunities and Challenges for Compiling SDG Indicators
Official statisticians around the world are faced with the herculean…
Knowledge and Politics in Setting and Measuring the SDGs: Introduction to Special Issue
The papers in this special issue provide accounts of the politics and…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Science‐Diplomacy Nexus
In this article, we address the climate change issue through the lens…
Science Diplomacy and Trust Building: ‘Science China’ in the Arctic
Science diplomacy creates possibilities for trust building in…
Science Diplomacy, Epistemic Communities, and Practice in Sub‐Saharan Africa
For many states in Sub‐Saharan Africa, the capacity to participate in…
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…
Early View Article - Afghanistan: In Search for an Alternative Route to Stability
After the US invasion of Afghanistan, while there were some successes…
What is the Future for the International Civil Service? On Global Public Administration
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David Held
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of David Held, Global Policy’s co-founder and General Editor. David wrote and spoke extensively on globalisation, changing forms of democracy and the prospects of regional and global governance, with a recent focus on climate change. David was also Master of University College, Durham, and a Director of Polity Press which he co-founded in 1984. David will be missed by the Global Policy team and all who worked with him on the journal.
Vol 9, Issue 4, November 2018
The November 2018 issue of Global Policy has a Special Section on 'Climate Governance After Paris', edited by David Held and Charles Roger. There are Research Articles on trade agreements, the EU's conflict minerals regulations and climate change tipping points. There are Survey Articles on the Paris agreement, and the BRICS and new development banks, and a Review Essay on private security providers in Africa.
CfP: Cultural Industries in the Era of Protectionism
Global Policy and the European Centre for International Political Economy are organising an international conference on the 'Cultural Industries in the Era of Protectionism' in Seoul, Korea, May 2020. A Global Policy special issue for this event will bring together papers exploring the drivers of change in the cultural industries such as film, music and television. The aim is to investigate how businesses, governments, markets and societies are responding to the changes brought on by globalization and liberalism (or anti-globalism and protectionism).
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