Global Policy: Next Generation is an annual issue from Global Policy and is funded by the Global Policy Institute. The Institute is hosted in the School of Government and International Affairs and is a joint venture with the Durham Law School. This multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed publication provides a platform for postgraduate and early career researchers to publish research on-par with the most rigorous of academic journals. We seek out the next generation of groundbreaking research in global policymaking and broaden horizons in terms of both content and authorship.

Editorial Team: Aasim Khan, Natalie Braun, Jessica Eastland-Underwood, & Rob Hanson 

Editorial

A Year of Global Disorder: Where is Global Policy? - Rob Hanson, Aasim Khan, Jessica Eastland-Underwood and Natalie Braun

Research articles

From Stalemate to Launch? Explaining the Delayed Establishment of the SCODB - Gefan Zhu, Tianyu Luo and Yunxuan Chen

Financing Multipolarity: The New Development Bank and the Expansion of BRICS Influence - Rafael Voigtel

Evolving Beyond the Brussels Effect: EU Digital Diplomacy and the Broadening of External Digital Strategy - Zhe Ma

Tagging the Emirate: Language, Coordination and the Taliban's Digital Pursuit of Legitimacy - Hannah Oates

Green Equals Green? The Divergent Policy Logics of Climate and Biodiversity Governance - Florian Zenglein

Fractured Promises: Developing Countries and the Global Contestation of the $100 Billion Climate Finance Pledge - Serge Silatsa Nanda and Moch Faisal Karim

Special Section - Emerging Scholars on Emerging Technologies in International Security

Emerging Scholars on Emerging Technologies in International Security: Introduction to Part 2 - Anna Nadibaidze and Ingvild Bode

Governance of AI and by AI: Feedback Loops, Regime Variation and Reflexive Polycentric Control - Jan Kleiner

Cruising Together: How the Europeans Tipped the Scales for the Ground-Launched Cruise Missile - Tim Thies

Release Date

20 July 2026

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