Decarbonization and the New Geography of Industrial Power
The green transition was supposed to be a story of falling costs and…
Petrostates in Decline
Thorvaldur Gylfason and Gylfi Zoega argue that abundant natural…
The UK must use the Break Clause and Terminate its Contract with Palantir
As the digital transformation of health continues to reshape health…
Can Intelligence Be Wise?
Hakan Altinay on why listening and love may be more important that…
The Politics of the Ordinary
Brian Stoddart explores the political movements looking to include…
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…
Special Issue - Re‐Imagining Middle Powers in an Age of Global Transformation
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The European Union in an Illiberal World
Edited by Nicholas Sowels, Jan Wouters, Michał Dulak and Maria C. Lattore, this free e-book brings together a wide range of contributions to address the complex internal and external challenges of illiberalism to the EU.
CfP: Governing Planetary Defense: Politics, Ethics, Law in the Global Response to an Asteroid Threat
Asteroids show no respect for national borders. Yet, if humanity possesses the knowledge to understand how to defend the Earth from them, we have a political responsibility to do so. The special issue will critically address how?
GP Opinion
What the EU's Tech Sovereignty Package means beyond its borders.
On 3 June 2026…
Oliver Konradt traces how Tehran's post-12-day war attempt to restore national…
Absolute justice is anti-democratic fiction. Robert Schuett argues that free…
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