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Daniele Carminati explores how countries are using soft power to harness dissatisfaction with the current state of global affairs and challenge the status quo.
In Nye’s…
This is the first post in a three-part series about the interstate political-economy order, and specifically about the IMF and how it can best ensure its survival in our currently…
Layih Butake and Augustin Wambo Yamdjeu hail the new plan and call local expertise to drive its implementation.
It's official: the new Comprehensive Africa Agriculture…
Globalization promised us a united world, but in the end, it revealed a divided humanity—one that chose greed over grace, silence over solidarity, and self-interest over survival…
Global inequality will continue to spiral in a skewed system of international finance and governance that heavily favours the Global North, says Anthony Kamande in the latest blog…
Stephan Klingebiel and Hangwei Li argue that China's developing-country status no longer describes reality.
According to the World Bank, high-income economies are defined as…
Glauco Ortolano on the provocative use of soft power through naming.
In his first day in office, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the names of two…
Liana Ghukasyan argues that to remain relevant humanitarian leaders must find the courage to break from tradition.
Is Your Organization Still Relevant?
Relevance is a…
Trump 2.0’s ‘America First’ agenda threatens to undermine key multilateral institutions, from NATO to the WTO. Europe face a critical choice: appease US demands or fill the gap to…
Nikita Chiu calls for Policy Insights for inclusion in a forthcoming Global Policy special section entitled Tracing the Future(s): Tracing our legacies to shape a more…
Ahmad Khalil explores the implications of the Caesar Act's sanctions in a post-Assad Syria, highlighting the need to transition from punitive measures to policies fostering…
In response to restricted funding, humanitarian actors are having to prioritise where to deploy their resources. Charlotte Brown and Costanza Torre delve into the policy.
The…
The world needs to stop relying on a metric that ignores two thirds of the work done by women and which promotes harmful policies, says Oxfam GB CEO Halima Begum. A new…
As they struggle to overcome violence and insecurity, countries like El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala increasingly find themselves in a tense struggle between…
Christiaan De Beukelaer argues that meeting the 2023 IMO Strategy in full is necessary and feasible. But it requires unequivocally ambitious measures in 2025.
In July 2023,…