The Fourth Pillar: the Media and Challenges to Democracy – A Conversation with GGF 2035 Fellow Marie Baléo
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures –…
Ricardo, Marx, and Interpersonal Inequality
Branko Milanovic on the emergence of the study of interpersonal…
What’s Left of the Failed States Debate? Putting Five Hypotheses to the Test
The number of countries in which state structures have collapsed…
Unless the Private Sector Embraces ‘Good Capitalism’, this Pandemic will be the First of Many Global Crises
Germany’s private sector lobbied to tie COVID19 aid to climate action…
COVID-19 and the Urgent Need to Render Spaces Safer
Why we should emulate the US Air Force’s “integrated air defence”…
Early View Article - Walking in Jozi: Guided Tours, Insecurity and Urban Regeneration in Inner City Johannesburg
This article explores how the emerging tourism sector in Johannesburg…
Global Crisis Leadership for Disease‐Induced Threats: One Health and Urbanisation
The concept of ‘One Health’ (OH) has gathered momentum among the…
Fool’s Gold: Business Power and the Evolution of the Conflict‐free Gold Standard
This article examines the role of business, through the World Gold…
Acknowledging Urbanization: A Survey of the Role of Cities in UN Frameworks
Cities are playing an increasingly vital role in global…
Defence in Depth Against Human Extinction: Prevention, Response, Resilience, and Why They All Matter
We look at classifying extinction risks in three different ways,…
Early View Article - 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…
Fluctuating Regional (Dis‐)Order in the Post‐Arab Uprising Middle East
The Middle Eastern regional order has been undergoing profound…
China and Global Governance: Opportunistic Multilateralism
US policy toward the People's Republic of China (PRC) has come under…
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…
Early View Article - Afghanistan: In Search for an Alternative Route to Stability
After the US invasion of Afghanistan, while there were some successes…
Out Now: Vol 11, Issue 3, May 2020
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COVID-19 Opinion Round Up
COVID-19 has understandably dominated Global Policy's Opinion pages in recent weeks. The pandemic touches upon almost all of our thematic areas and can be analysed with a variety of disciplinary and policy making lenses. To begin to make sense of it, we've roughly grouped published Opinion pieces into 'Responses', 'Narrative', 'Global Governance, 'Development and Inequality' and 'Sector Specific Consequences'.
Global Financial Safety Net: COVID-19 Lessons
The so-called Global Financial Safety Net of institutions for short-term crisis finance has evolved into an uncoordinated patchwork of global, regional, and bilateral sources of support that lacks the resources to adequately prevent and mitigate the kinds of financial instability we are witnessing in the wake of COVID-19. What can be done?
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