The February 2025 issue of Global Policy includes Research Articles on, among others, the Responsibility to Protect, the Ukraine conflict, and peace and conflict research. There is also a special section on 'Humanitarian Protection and the Safety of Strangers' edited by by Naomi Pendle and Tom Kirk. The issue concludes with Policy Analyses on basic income, export controls and US pension funds, and a Practitioner Paper on STEM resources for diplomats.
Research Articles
Norm modification and the responsibility to protect: Towards a four-pillar framework - Thomas Peak
Exploring best practices for user engagement in peace and conflict research - Thomas Bobo, Giuditta Fontana and Nino Kemoklidze
A quiet convergence: The 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and Italian Parties' positions on the European Union - Andrea Capati and Federico Trastulli
The evolution of transnational municipal knowledge networks - Adi Weidenfeld and Nick Clifton
Special Section
The Safety of Strangers: The Realities and Politics of Protecting Civilians in Times of War - Naomi Pendle and Tom Kirk
Humanitarian protection activities and the safety of strangers in the DRC, Syria and South Sudan - Tom Kirk, Naomi Pendle and Anastasia Vasilyeva
Community self-protection, public authority and the safety of strangers in Bor and Ler, South Sudan - Tom Kirk, Naomi Pendle and Abraham Diing Akoi
Protection and Containment: Surviving COVID-19 in Palabek Refugee Settlement, Northern Uganda - Sophie Mylan
Negotiating faith in exile: Learning from displacements from and into Arua, North West Uganda - Elizabeth Storer
Seeking safety: Identifying protection gaps for artists in South Sudan - Kara A. Blackmore
Safety Among Displaced South Sudanese in Khartoum: The Role of Christian Faith Communities - Nelly Caesar Arkangelo
Sing safety: Understanding South Sudanese protection strategies through song - Sylvia A. N. Nannyonga-Tamusuza and Naomi Pendle
Hiding in plain sight: IDP's protection strategies after closing Juba's protection of civilian sites - Tot Janguan and Tom Kirk
Policy Analysis
Basic income in crisis? (Hard) lessons from the pandemic - Jurgen De Wispelaere, Joe Chrisp and Leticia Morales
Harnessing network power: Weaponised interdependence in global tax policy - Rasmus Corlin Christensen
Enforcing export controls learning from and using the financial system - Benjamin Hilgenstock, Elina Ribakova, Anna Vlasyuk and Guntram Wolff
Policy approaches to increase external investment by US pension funds in African countries - Daniel Preston
Practitioner Paper
Maximizing STEM resources for diplomats: A framework for speed, depth, and accuracy - Lee E. Voth-Gaeddert
