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How do 40 Supersmart Young Global Activists Want to Change the World?
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How to Have Difficult Conversations
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What is the Value of Data? Improving Lives through Open Data
Making data work for social good requires bolder approaches to…
The World’s Happiest People already have a Green New Deal, and they Love It
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The Political Economy of ‘Tax Spillover’: A New Multilateral Framework
Tax spillovers are the effects one country's tax rules and practices…
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…
How Informality Can Address Emerging Issues: Making the Most of the G7
The G7 should address new, unprecedented and highly disruptive issues…
Belt and Road Initiative: Responses from Japan and India – Bilateralism, Multilateralism and Collaborations
The responses from Japan and India to the China‐led Belt and Road…
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…
The SDGs: Changing How Development is Understood
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitute a truly…
Political Thriller Exposes the Underbelly of Global Goals
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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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The Politics Behind the SDGs
The papers in this open access special issue investigate the politics that shaped the SDGs, the setting of the goals and the selection of the measurement methods. The choice of indicators is seemingly a technical issue, but the authors show how measurement methods interpret and reinterpret norms, carry value judgements, theoretical assumptions, and implicit political agendas. This raises questions about ‘data for whom and for what’.
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.
Consultation: Economic, Social & Cultural Rights Bill
The UK has voluntarily subscribed to a number of international treaties that say that everyone living in the country is entitled to the right to adequate housing, the right to health, the right to social security and other socio-economic rights. But unlike other countries, by and large these rights have not been incorporated in domestic law. The University of Newcastle have launched a consultation on an Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Bill that they've developed together with colleagues from other universities and from civil society.
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