Global Shocks and the U.S. 2020 General Elections Call for Wild Card Analysis
This past year has shown many governments that they are not as…
Dimming the Lights
Scott Montgomery on why autocrats fear scientific knowledge and…
Preparing for Mayhem
Once the Kremlin is persuaded that Joe Biden will become the US’s…
Digitalization, Cyberbullying and Structural Discrimination in Japan - A Conversation with GGF 2035 Fellow Mamiko Hermann.
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures –…
Why Guinea is a Powder keg for West Africa and Beyond
Linda Ghirardello and Roland Benedikter argue that the results of…
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…
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…
Fluctuating Regional (Dis‐)Order in the Post‐Arab Uprising Middle East
The Middle Eastern regional order has been undergoing profound…
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…
Vol 11, Issue 4, September 2020
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GPI 2020 Lecture: Must the Weak suffer what they Must?
We are proud to announce that 2020's Annual Global Policy Institute Lecture will be given Professor Amrita Narlikar. The lecture is entitled 'Must the Weak Suffer what they Must? The Global South in a World of Weaponized Interdependence' and it will be held on online (Zoom) , 12.30-3.00pm GMT, Tuesday 27th October.
Special Section: Enhancing Europe's Global Power
The May 2020 issue of Global Policy has a special section on 'Enhancing Europe's Global Power' edited by Helmut Anheier, Christoph Abels, Iain Begg and Kevin Featherstone. There are articles on hard and soft power, leadership, and enhancing European power.
GP Opinion
This past year has shown many governments that they are not as resilient as…
Scott Montgomery on why autocrats fear scientific knowledge and expertise.
A…
Once the Kremlin is persuaded that Joe Biden will become the US’s next…
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Dr Chris Alden is a Reader in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Co-Head of the Africa International…
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