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Energy poverty is a global problem, as more than a billion people continue to live without access to electricity and almost three billion still have no clean cooking energy.…
On April 12, 2018, it was reported that United States President Donald Trump had ordered his officials to study the possibility of having the U.S. rejoin the Trans Pacific…
This paper explores and reflects on the subtle changes in managerial attitudes evolving in all continents as the world faces a natural slow-down in economic growth as nations…
Owing to major demographic shifts and the dynamics of urbanization, future large-scale infectious disease outbreaks will likely be mostly urban in nature. Municipal leaders are…
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 10 years…
Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was an inside job to the idea that reptilian humanoids rule…
This month’s African Union Summit is poised to probe widespread corruption but a closer look at East Africa also reveals other pressing issues, not least rising political…
This post is the third in a five part series from Jakob Vestergaard exploring reforms to the EMU that the Commission is hoping that member states will commit to at the end of…
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman. New York: Custom House 2017. 352 pp, $24.99 hardcover 9780062654618, $9.99 e-book 9780062654458
The war…
The wheels have started rolling on China’s globalisation project, and it is less a case of globalisation with Chinese characteristics than it is a complete remodeling of the…
Under the presidency of Vladimir Putin, Russia has become increasingly isolated from the norms and mechanisms of international society. This policy brief explores this trend…
The 2018 G7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec was thrown into disarray by President Trump’s imposition of punitive tariffs on other members of the group. Much of the action centred on…
Rapid advances in technologies – in areas such as robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, synthetic biology and clean technologies – are fundamentally changing…
With the recent diplomatic fluctuations between both the US and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and the US and Iran, the issue of nuclear proliferation has…
This policy brief examines the environmental theme of the 44th G7, how countries have previously addressed the issues of climate, energy and the environment, and the novel…