The September 2018 issue of Global Policy has research articles on the UN and civil society, democracy support, the SDGs, development finance, the Middle East, and the BRICS and climate change. There is a policy insight essay focussed on Brexit and the UK‐Africa Caribbean and Pacific aid relationship, and two practitioner commentaries on energy efficiency and financial regulation.
The Problem with Official Statistics – and Three Ways to Make them Better
What value do statistics really have when it comes to describing…
No to Academic Normalization of Trump
Those who have served the current US president are necessarily…
Large Institutional Investors and Venture Capitalism: Un-Creative Destruction?
Robyn Klingler-Vidra and Juergen Braunstein explore whether it…
What’s Behind the Current Wave of ‘Corporate Activism’?
Steffen Böhm, Annika Skoglund and Dan Eatherley unpick the rise of…
Book Review – The Dynamics of EU External Energy Relations: Fighting for Energy
The Dynamics of EU External Energy Relations: Fighting for Energy by…
Early View Article - China's Expanding Security Involvement in Africa: A Pillar for ‘China–Africa Community of Common Destiny’
China has been committed to creating an ‘all weather’…
Early View Article - Labor Provisions in Trade Agreements (LABPTA): Introducing a New Dataset
Global labor policy through trade has begun to receive growing…
Early View Article - Catastrophic Climate Change and Forest Tipping Points: Blind Spots in International Politics and Policy
Scientists believe that humanity has already crossed the core…
Early View Article - Understanding the Connections between the EU Global Strategy and Somali Peacebuilding Education Needs and Priorities
This paper examines the connections between identity politics and…
Early View Article - Tailoring for Development: China's Post‐crisis Influence in Global Financial Governance
China's increasing engagement in global financial governance since…
Early View Article - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Science‐Diplomacy Nexus
In this article, we address the climate change issue through the lens…
Early View Article - Science Diplomacy and Trust Building: ‘Science China’ in the Arctic
Science diplomacy creates possibilities for trust building in…
Early View Article - Science Diplomacy, Epistemic Communities, and Practice in Sub‐Saharan Africa
For many states in Sub‐Saharan Africa, the capacity to participate in…
Post‐War Recovery and the Role of Markets: Policy Insights from Six Years of Research
Markets and private sector development are considered central to the…
Early View Article - Science Diplomacy within Sustainable Development: A SIDS Perspective
Should science and its products be considered global public goods? An…
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
Generally speaking, questions of human resources in the United…
Behavioural Economics and International Development
Adam Smith is one the founding fathers of modern economics. It is…
Generating Economic Growth – How Governments can Help Successfully
This article points out challenges that have arisen in the current…
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'The Challenge of Brexit for the North', on 20th September 2018, is the first conference of the Global Policy North network, a new consortium of scholars and practitioners in the north of England. Keynote speeches by Hilary Benn, MP, and Lord Jim O’Neill, former Chairman of Goldman Sachs.
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