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Ariel Colonomos explores the difficult choices facing states tackling the COVID-19 pandemic.
Numbers Count
Maybe there is no difference, ethically, between saving 10 thousand…
With the death toll from coronavirus mounting around the world, it appears to have claimed another important victim in the political arena: the idea of China and Russia as a…
Avoiding the Terrorist Trap: Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism by Tom Parker. London and Singapore: World Scientific, 2019. 892 pp., £200 hardcover…
Bernard Hoekman, Matteo Fiorini, and Aydin Yildirim look at some of the counterproductive trade policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic and suggest ways to expand production of…
The oil price crash has left Donald Trump’s always tattered Middle East policy in ruins with uncertain but worrisome potential consequences.
“No one will thrive in the current…
Amidst the many consequences it will leave in its wake, COVID-19 might reveal that global health governance should focus on systemic risk management, just as their peers in…
Chris Humphrey examines the governance and early operations of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and New Development Bank.
The world is in urgent need of infrastructure…
COVID-19 has understandably dominated Global Policy's Opinion pages in recent weeks. The pandemic touches upon almost all of the platform's thematic areas and can be analysed with…
Emilian Kavalski and Nicholas Ross Smith, from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, take the proposed introduction of immunity passports to remind of the…
Felix Troeltzsch argues that a global Coronavirus recession could tip the scales in Germany against Russia sanctions.
After EU restrictive measures against Russia were…
It may not be perfect, but Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Dimas Rizki Permadi argue that there are at least three lessons Indonesia can learn from the way China has dealt…
Before the breakout of the Pandemic, the global economy was treading between a debt crash and environmental collapse. Attempting to go back to ‘normal’ will most likely trigger…
Bruno Oliveira Martins, Chantal Lavallée and Andrea Silkoset explore the opportunities and dangers of the embrace of drones to address challenges raised by the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Ilona Kickbusch and Dario Piselli tentatively argue that COVID-19 is spurning organisational learning processes, effective political leadership, and new forms of cooperation…
The Emerging Global Governance project's Gregory Chin argues that the TOChina Hub is an example of a virtuous combination of advanced research and the applied…