The October 2025 edition of Global Policy contains research articles on, among others, political narratives of 'the global', the SDGs, human rights and the environment, New Zealand's foreign policy and the digital silk road. It also includes a policy analyses special section entitled 'The Hybrid Institutional Complex for the SDGs', edited by Jack Taggart and Benjamin Faude. There are practitioner papers on aid for trade, the state and the polycrisis, and trade regionalisation.
Research Articles
Left and Right as a Narrative of the Global - Alain Noël and Jean-Philippe Thérien
Who Could Deploy Stratospheric Aerosol Injection? The United States, China, and Large-Scale, Rapid Planetary Cooling - Joshua B. Horton, Wake Smith and David W. Keith
Scoping Existing National Policy Recognition of Future Generations: Prospects for Future Global Climate Justice - Edward A. Morgan, Megan Crichton, Gwynn MacCarrick, Elise Stephenson, and Susan Harris Rimmer
An Evolutionary Perspective on the Implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - Matthieu Pitteloud, Lafi Aldakak, Frank Rühli and Nicole Bender
Civil Society Participation in Creating the SDG Indicator Framework: Open but Limited - Roni Kay M. O'Dell
Conceptualizing Utu as a Foreign Policy Doctrine for Aotearoa New Zealand - Nicholas Ross Smith and Bonnie Holster
The Development of Japan's Indo-Pacific Strategy: Security Concerns and Instrumental Principles - Hidetaka Yoshimatsu
Busting the Myth of Convergence Between the EU and LAC Countries: Analysis From UN Resolutions - Rafael Mesquita and Bruno Theodoro Luciano
Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence Regulations for Deforestation-Free Value Chains? Exploring the Implementation of the EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products in the Cocoa and Coffee Sectors of Peru - Jimena Solar, Yovita Ivanova and Christoph Oberlack
Sustainable Food System Chapters in Trade and Investment Agreements: Lessons on Policy Innovation - Dori Patay, Holly Rippin, Kelly Garton, Ashley Schram, Paz Belen Cavada-Robert, Wolfgang Alschner, Camila Corvalan and Anne Marie Thow
Trade Finance Gap: Why Credit Risk Mitigants Are Not Applied - Elvira Bobillo-Carballo and Alfredo Arahuetes García
Round-Tripping Foreign Direct Investments: What are the Main Factors? - Magdolna Sass and Imre Fertő
Brazil and China's Digital Silk Road: Opportunities, Risks, and Strategic Implications - Flávio Bastos da Silva and Paulo Afonso B. Duarte
The Future of Deadly Synthetic Opioids: Nitazenes and Their International Control - Nicholas Lassi and Su Jiang
Policy Analyses Special Section: The Hybrid Institutional Complex for the Sustainable Development Goals, edited by Jack Taggart and Benjamin Faude
Boon or Bane?: The Hybrid Institutional Complex for the Sustainable Development Goals - Jack Taggart and Benjamin Faude
Managerialism and the Changing Politics of Inclusion - Kavi Joseph Abraham
Doing Things Right Versus Doing the Right Things? Ownership's Effect on the Sustainable Development Goals - Bernhard Reinsberg
The Trojan Horse of Hybrid Governance: Corporate Power and Global Plastics Governance - Rob Ralston and Jack Taggart
How Do Informal International Organizations Promote the Sustainable Development Goals Through Orchestration? - Dan Xu
United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Hybrid Institutional Complexes as Hegemony-Building? - Julija Loginovic and Stuart Shields
Policy Analysis
Progressive Rhetoric, Regressive Reality: The IMF's Tax Advice to 125 Countries, 2022–2024 - Alexandros Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs
The Belt and Road Initiative and Emerging US-China Rivalries in Africa: The Case of the Lobito Corridor - Maria Adele Carrai
Analysis of the Working Group's Recommendations and COP-16 Decision 16/2 on Digital Sequence Information - Bruna Gomes Maia and Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde
Commercialization, Criminality, and Coordination: Space Trade Lessons From ‘The Expanse’ - Youssef Ait Benasser
Practitioner Papers
Regionalization of Global Trade: A New Order in the Making - Woubet Kassa
How Can Aid for Trade Support the Resilience of the Least Developed Countries in the Face of Polycrisis? - Ratnakar Adhikari
The Region State in the 21st Century Polycrisis - Petr Blížkovský, Jochen Prantl and Lubor Lacina
Review Essay
Do Animal Rights Undermine Human Rights? - Sergio Dellavalle
Correction
Correction to “The Politics of Accountability in Global Sustainable Commodity Governance: Dilemmas of Institutional Competition and Convergence”
