The February 2026 edition of Global Policy contains research articles on, among others, Trump and international organizations, trust in AI governance, Chinese FDI and green industrial policy. There are also policy analyses on foreign aid, river management and lead pigments. There is also a practitioner paper on whether the UN can avoid the fate of the League of Nations?
Research Articles
Second Attempt at America First: Donald Trump and the Survival of International Organizations - Hylke Dijkstra
Lowest Common Denominator: Explaining Multilateral Bargaining Over Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems Regulation - Johannes Geith
Public Trust in Global AI Governance Across Geopolitical Rivals - Xiaojun Li
“Research Security” in Germany and the United States: Shifting Governance of Scientific Collaboration Under Geopolitical Pressure - Nicolas V. Rüffin, Katharina C. Cramer, Maximilian Mayer and Philip J. Nock
Active Yet Cautious: How Middle States Navigate Status in the Universal Periodic Review - Chun-Young Park
Collision, Competition or Cooperation? China's BRI and the EU's Development Policies Towards Eastern Europe - Tanja A. Börzel, Julia Langbein, Lunting Wu and Valentin Krüsmann
Terrorism and U.S. and Chinese Overseas Foreign Direct Investment in the Developing World - Kelan (Lilly) Lu, Glen Biglaiser and Lance Y. Hunter
Private Network Realignment: State Strategies Versus Market-Driven Globalization in the Subsea Cable Network - Joscha Abels
Should Green Industrial Policy Be Technology Neutral? - Emma Aisbett, Wenting Cheng, Ralf Steinhauser and Fiona Beck
Policy Analyses
Foreign Aid at a Crossroads: How Funding Cuts Reshape Global Development Cooperation - Steffi Hamann
Development Lending and Debt Discipline: The Political Economy of External Finance in Brazil - Benjamin Vidmar and Felipe Krause
Contemporary Challenges and Relevance of the Transboundary River Management Regimes in South Asia - Rahul M. Lad and Ravindra G. Jaybhaye
Toxic Lead Pigment Exports From Rich to Poor Countries - Rory Todd, Lee Crawfurd and Rachel Bonnifield
Practitioner Paper
Can the United Nations Avoid the Fate of the League of Nations?: Why Bold Reform May be the Only Option - Kristinn Sv. Helgason
