The December 2019 issue of Global Policy has two special sections. The first entitled 'The AIIB in Global Perspective: Early Development, Innovation and Future Agenda' edited by Gregory T. Chin, Giuseppe Gabusi, Carla P. Freeman, Giovanni B. Andornino. The second 'Lessons and challenges for networking cities: policy insights from/after a decade of C40' edited by Kathryn Davidson, Lars Coenen and Brendan Gleeson. The issue also has research articles on the vulnerable world hypothesis, the new wars thesis, the middle-income trap and genetically engineered animals. There are practitioner commentaries on globalisation, the IPCC and the humanitarian sector.
Research Articles
The Vulnerable World Hypothesis - Nick Bostrom
The New War Thesis and Clausewitz: A Reconciliation - Benjamin R. Banta
Effective Orchestration? The 1540 Committee and the WMD Terrorism Regime Complex - Benjamin Kienzle
The Leap of the Tiger: Escaping the Middle‐income Trap to the Technological Frontier - Reda Cherif and Fuad Hasanov
Can Vision 2020 be Far Away? Malaysia's Transformation Problems to a High‐income Economy - Daniel Fleming and Henrik Søborg
Citizenship as Sovereign Wealth: Re‐thinking Investor Immigration - Alan Gamlen, Chris Kutarna and Ashby Monk
‘Real interest’? Understanding the 2018 Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean - Klaus Dodds
Autonomy of Nations and Indigenous Peoples and the Environmental Release of Genetically Engineered Animals with Gene Drives - Zahra Meghani
Special Section I
The AIIB in Global Perspective: Early Development, Innovation and Future Agenda Edited by Gregory T. Chin, Giuseppe Gabusi, Carla P. Freeman, Giovanni B. Andornino
Introduction to the special section: 'The AIIB in Global Perspective: Early Development, Innovation and Future' - Gregory T. Chin
AIIB at Three: A Comparative and Institutional Perspective - Natalie Lichtenstein
On the AIIB’s Non‐resident Board: Strategic Trade‐offs, Roles and Responsibilities - Camillo von Müller and Elke Baumann
The AIIB and Sustainable Infrastructure: A Hybrid Layered Approach - Karin Costa Vazquez and Gregory T. Chin
Economic–Security Nexus in the AIIB: China's Quest for Security through Eurasian Connectivity - Giovanni B. Andornino
The Role of AIIB in the ‘New Normal’ Era for Indonesia and ASEAN - M. Chatib Basri
Financing Sustainable Infrastructure Development in South Asia: The Case of AIIB - Nagesh Kumar and Ojasvee Arora
AIIB Membership for African Countries: Drawcards and Drawbacks - Cyril Prinsloo
Global Standards in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: The Contribution of the European Members - Giuseppe Gabusi
Latin America and the AIIB: Interests and Viewpoints - Alvaro Mendez
Turkey and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Economic Pragmatism meets Geopolitics - Seçkin Köstem
Is the AIIB a China‐controlled Bank? China’s Evolving Multilateralism in Three Dimensions (3D) - Jiejin Zhu
Leveraging Asia's Financial Hubs for the AIIB: Hong Kong and Singapore - Yu‐wai Vic Li
Constructive Engagement? The US and the AIIB - Carla P. Freeman
Policy Insights
Accelerating the United Nation's 2030 Global Agenda: Why Prioritization of the Gender Goal is Essential - Paula Hepp, Claire Somerville and Bettina Borisch
A Conceptual Framework of Arctic Economies for Policy‐making, Research, and Practice - Sanne Vammen Larsen, Eleanor K. Bors, Lára Jóhannsdóttir, Elena Gladun, Daria Gritsenko, Soili Nysten‐Haarala, Svetlana Tulaeva and Todd Sformo
Special Section II
Lessons and challenges for networking cities: policy insights from/after a decade of C40 Edited by Kathryn Davidson, Lars Coenen and Brendan Gleeson
A Decade of C40: Research Insights and Agendas for City Networks - Kathryn Davidson, Lars Coenen and Brendan Gleeson
C40 Cities Inside Out - Michele Acuto and Mehrnaz Ghojeh
How City‐networks are Shaping and Failing Innovations in Urban Institutions for Sustainability and Resilience - Niki Frantzeskaki
From There to Here and Beyond: A Friendly Rejoinder to Davidson et al. - David Gordon and Craig Johnson
The C40 Experience: From Technical Experiment to Political Inspiration - Emmanuelle Pinault
Unpacking the Politics of C40: ‘Critical Friendship’ for a Second Decade - Emilia Smeds
Situating C40 in the Evolution of Networked Urban Climate Governance - Lars Coenen, Kathryn Davidson and Brendan Gleeson
Practitioner Commentaries
Globalisation is Alive and Well … and Kicking - Edward Price
What National Decision‐makers Need From The IPCC: Special Reports With New Insights - Mukul Sanwal. Can Wang. Xinzhu Zheng and Xinran Yang
Using Regulatory Sandboxes to Support Responsible Innovation in the Humanitarian Sector - Aaron Martin and Giulia Balestra
Old Wine in New Bottles – How Protectionism Takes Hold of Digital Trade - Erik van der Marel
Response Article
Commentary on Benjamin Banta: Thinking through Practices that ‘Work’ in a Rapidly Changing World - Mary Kaldor
