The Climate Crisis: Too Much Structure, Not Enough Agency
Mark Beeson on the Gordian Knot preventing action on climate change.…
Hybrid Threats in Europe: Zersetzung Writ Large
No firewall can save a democracy. As Robert Schuett argues, we must…
China’s World-Making Moment: A Strategic Opening Amid the Ukraine Crisis
Jianyong Yue argues that Trump’s return to the White House offers…
Rebuilding Legitimacy for Global Governance: The Case for a New Independent Commission
The global landscape of development cooperation is fracturing. The…
Humanitarian Connectivity in Crisis
Aaron Martin and Quito Tsui on the risks of an unprepared…
Side Payments in World Politics: Theory and Practice
Scholars of world politics frequently highlight the importance of…
Feeling overlooked: A rural–urban divide in recognition
The farmers' protests sweeping across Europe during the early month…
Minimalist economic management, deferred revenue regime and aid dependency: Explaining contradictory post-war statebuilding aims
The paper analyses a contradiction in the liberal approach to post-…
Will the poverty-related UN Sustainable Development Goals be met? New projections
In this paper, we discuss the literature and consider the historical…
How to constitute global citizens' forums: Key selection principles
Once imagined as a theoretical possibility, global citizen…
Metatechnological Mapping and the Ye Wenjie Effect: Mitigating Civilizational Vulnerabilities
In a widely cited study in this Journal, Nick Bostrom has posed the…
Fit for purpose? Just Energy Transition Partnerships and accountability in international climate governance
This contribution examines whether just energy transition…
Informality and the governance dilemma: How institutional inter-linkages can bridge accountability gaps
States have increasingly relied on informal international…
A fairer and more resilient multilateral trading system will require a reinvigorated WTO
The multilateral trading system, first established formally in 1947…
Populism à la Carte: The paradoxical political communication of Narendra Modi on Twitter
How and where is democracy ‘hacked’? Studies examining the…
Against data individualism: Why a pandemic accord needs to commit to data solidarity
An accord to increase global pandemic preparedness is currently…
Mañana Today: A Long View of Economic Value Creation in Latin America
This commentary concerns the significant opportunities which the…
Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: What are the Benefits for SMEs?
Extended reality (XR) has the potential to be a game‐changer for SMEs…
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…
Behavioural Economics and International Development
Adam Smith is one the founding fathers of modern economics. It is…
Volume 16, Issue 2, May 2025
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Building on themes in a recent special issue of GP, this 3rd June online conference seeks to examine the very varied issues facing the international community and the European Union in particular in this new illiberal world.
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Professor Gleider Hernández holds chairs in Public International Law at Katholieke University Leuven and Open Universiteit Nederland. Previously, he was Associate Professor (…
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