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Epistemic competition in global governance: The case of pharmaceutical patents Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Cynthia Couette
Expert consensus helps policymakers solve complex problems by identifying and legitimizing policy solutions. Yet, persistent hesitation remains among policymakers regarding the technically adequate policy solution despite the existence and mobilization of epistemic communities. This paper contends that more attention should be given to studying the epistemic competition that may arise when multiple
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Making the UNFCCC fit for purpose: A research agenda on vested interests and green spiralling Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Alexandra Buylova, Mathias Fridahl, Gunilla Reischl
How can the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) be made more effective? This paper argues that in order to make the UNFCCC fit for purpose, there is a need to identify the specific institutional reforms that can create ripple effects to accelerate climate action across governance levels and relevant organisations. Longstanding calls to reform the UNFCCC have targeted inefficient procedures
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Indicator accountability or policy shrinking? Multistakeholder partnerships in reviews of the sustainable development goals Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Magdalena Bexell
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with their 169 targets and 231 indicators epitomise the trend of global governance by numbers. This article suggests the notion of a global “indicator reporting trajectory” that is shaped by three main elements: the politics of indicators, a reporting infrastructure and indicator advocacy. I propose that indicator reporting trajectories may result either in
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Unique data, different values: Explaining variation in the use of biometrics by international humanitarian organizations Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Çağlar Açıkyıldız
Humanitarian organizations are increasingly using biometric technology. Although the existing literature comprehensively covers this issue, it overlooks the considerable divergence in approaches and policies. In fact, there are significant differences in how biometric data are collected, stored, processed, shared, and protected. Drawing on an analysis of relevant news items, documents, and 17 semi-structured
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Fit for purpose? Just Energy Transition Partnerships and accountability in international climate governance Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Joseph Earsom
This contribution examines whether just energy transition partnerships (JETPs), a new type of financial agreement between G7/G7-allies and low-to-middle income states, can serve as accountability mechanisms for the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It identifies important structural elements from the existing literature on climate governance for holding actors to account
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Accountability in densely institutionalized governance spaces Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Stephanie C. Hofmann
The concept of organizational accountability is central to good governance both domestically and internationally. However, assessing accountability in densely institutionalized global governance spaces requires new conceptual and analytical tools. Rather than concentrating on the accountability of states, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and transnational
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Aligned or non-aligned: South Africa's response to the war in Ukraine Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Malte Brosig
This contribution explores South Africa's position in the war in Ukraine. As a major African player, member of BRICS, the G20, and frequent UN Security Council member, the country is a globally engaged and regionally leading actor. Since the beginning of the conflict, South Africa has declared itself as non-aligned; however, its close political relations with Russia and disinclination to condemn the
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The art of the Trump-Iran deal: An unsuccessful coercive foreign policy Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Amir Magdy Kamel
The success of a state's coercive foreign policy depends on how much influence it has over a ‘target’ – a premise that assumes other factors do not obstruct the policy goal. In practice however, the nature of the international system complicates the potential for such a policy's success. This paper examines this idea using the 2018 US decision that aimed to dismantle the JCPOA by pulling out of the
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Contested ‘commune rurales’: Decentralisation and the (violent) struggle for public authority in the Democratic Republic of Congo Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Karen Büscher, Stephanie Perazzone, Jeroen Cuvelier, Stephane Lumbu, Espoir Rwakira, Paul Bulambo, Chrispin Mvano Yabauma, Godefroid Muzalia
This article explores how decentralisation policy and specifically the establishment of communes rurales in DR Congo turned into a profoundly destabilising juncture, shaking existing governance arrangements. In particular, we examine how this has led to a reshuffle of power and a renegotiation of public authoritiy. By analysing the impact of decentralisation on the construction of and competition over
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Here to stay? Challenges to liberal environmentalism in regional climate governance Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 David Krogmann
While regionalism is highly relevant in many policy fields today, regional idiosyncrasies have been poorly understood in the literature on multilateral climate governance. This article explores regional ideas in climate governance by comparing the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS). As international climate governance has institutionalised a normative compromise
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Supply chain divergence challenges a ‘Brussels effect’ from Europe's human rights and environmental due diligence laws Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Mairon G. Bastos Lima, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Human rights violations and pressing environmental issues have tainted agricultural trade. The role of international market demand for commodities such as soy in causing those problems is clear, yet they remain mostly unaddressed. Therefore, European countries have led a new global trend on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD), advancing the EU's growing global regulatory
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Informality and the governance dilemma: How institutional inter-linkages can bridge accountability gaps Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Charles B. Roger
States have increasingly relied on informal international organizations (IOs) to govern cross-border problems. Frequently, however, their accountability has been questioned because they have been created to evade political control and strengthen the hands of executives and bureaucrats vis-à-vis legislative actors. This has led some to propose solutions that might address their accountability gaps.
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Unveiling child trafficking: Local perspectives and context in addressing sustainable development goals in Sierra Leone Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Alex Balch, Anna M. Cody, David Okech, Tamora Callands, Umaru Fofanah, Haja Ramatulai Wurie
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) included the goal of combating child labor and human trafficking, but regional variations complicate efforts to address these problems. In Sierra Leone, the government has taken steps to address these issues, but challenges remain, particularly in relation to access to education, in rural areas, and for young girls. This article examines local stakeholder understandings
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The New Development Bank in Africa: Mid-term evaluation and lessons learned Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Daniel D. Bradlow, Magalie L. Masamba
The New Development Bank (NDB) launched its first project in Africa on April 13, 2016, and on August 17, 2017, the Bank opened its Africa Regional Centre (ARC) in Johannesburg, South Africa. This article assesses the NDB's presence in Africa. It addresses the following questions: what role is the NDB playing in Africa? What is the ARC and why was its created? How well have the NDB and the ARC been
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Sustainable future bonds: Boosting multilateral development banks lending and improving the global reserve system Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Marina Zucker-Marques, Kevin P. Gallagher
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are crucial players to finance a greener, more socially inclusive and sustainable future, given their unique financial model that provides low-cost and long-term investments in areas aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate commitments. To fulfill their potential, MDBs need a stepwise increase in financing, which has been a challenge
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The sound, the fury and the silences: The politics of influence in digitalizing India Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Jean-Thomas Martelli, Aasim Khan, Ralph Schroeder
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT There is no conflict of interest to declare.
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The pursuit of positive accountability in the cyber domain Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Patryk Pawlak
Debates about accountability in cyberspace are dominated by state-centric and security-driven approaches that disregard the complexity of the institutional ecosystem in cyberspace and the diverse ways through which different stakeholder groups may pursue accountability. Such an approach has contributed to a flawed interpretation of accountability in cyberspace as applicable solely to malicious actors
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Ad hoc coalitions: From hierarchical to network accountability in peace operations? Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Stephanie C. Hofmann, John Karlsrud, Yf Reykers
Launching multinational peace operations are time and politically sensitive decisions that frequently involve the use of force. As a result, a host of accountability issues arise. To date, mainly backward-looking and hierarchical accountability measures have been developed to guide the implementation of multinational peace operations led by the most prominent actors in this policy domain: intergovernmental
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In the line of duty: Militarising African epidemics Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Tim Allen, Melissa Parker
The deployment of soldiers for epidemic control in Africa has become more acceptable, even when human rights violations occur. This article outlines how this situation has arisen, foregrounding overlapping processes since the 1990s and the implications of Security Council Resolution 2177. It then explores effects with reference to Sierra Leone and Uganda. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, it discusses
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Dealing with Europe's economic (in-)security Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Federico Steinberg, Guntram Wolff
Economic security is going to occupy an increasingly important role in global politics. While the EU should aim to avoid a fragmentation of the global economy and support multilateralism, it needs to prepare for protectionism, a global subsidy race and weaponisation of interdependencies. First, the EU must take geopolitical risks seriously and use stress tests and a data-driven approach to identify
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Ecosystem services and sustainable peace in Afghanistan: Gaps in national policy and its security implications Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Srinjoy Bose, Maxim Mancino, Dahlia Simangan
While previous studies underscore the importance of climate-sensitive approaches to peacebuilding, the relationship between ecosystem services and peace and security, especially at the local level, has been insufficiently studied. We argue that ecosystem services are often neglected by national-level actors and insufficiently integrated into peacebuilding interventions and project design. In fact,
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Courts, climate litigation and the evolution of earth system law Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Louis J. Kotzé, Benoit Mayer, Harro van Asselt, Joana Setzer, Frank Biermann, Nicolas Celis, Sam Adelman, Bridget Lewis, Amanda Kennedy, Helen Arling, Birgit Peters
Numerous scientific reports have evidenced the transformation of the earth system due to human activities. These changes – captured under the term ‘Anthropocene’ – require a new perspective on global law and policy. The concept of ‘earth system law’ situates law in an earth system context and offers a new perspective to interrogate the role of law in governing planetary challenges such as climate change
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Advancing governance indicator systems: Lessons learned from the 2022 symposium Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Helmut K. Anheier, Regina A. List, Edward L. Knudsen
The Berggruen Governance Index (BGI) is a new and innovative entry into the crowded domain of quantitative governance research. In its effort to contribute to the field, the BGI builds off of and acts in dialogue with several other governance indicator projects from across the globe. As part of a collaborative outlook, the BGI convened the first of three symposia at the UCLA Luskin School in October
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Making universal education a priority for sustainable development: The EU, Vietnam and education Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Catherine Gegout
This article highlights the need to bring education to the forefront of EU policies to promote sustainable development in Vietnam. The EU is increasingly concerned with promoting sustainable development worldwide. It does this in its aid policies, and since 2010, it has included in its trade agreements provisions on labour, environmental and gender rights. But what about education rights? This article
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The future(s) of global governance: A scenarios exercise Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Angel Saz-Carranza, Enrique Rueda-Sabater, Marie Vandendriessche, Carlota Moreno, Jacint Jordana
Pervasive uncertainty has stretched the fabric of global governance to its limit. The shape and form of future global governance is far from clear – yet we need to explore how it may play out, so that we can not only prepare for it but also overcome possible pernicious trajectories. Scenario thinking can be used to rigorously explore different possible outcomes. In this article, we present an exercise
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Introducing the Berggruen Governance Index I: Conceptual and methodological framework Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Helmut K. Anheier, Markus Lang, Edward L. Knudsen
Governance is at the heart of how well governments meet public needs and manage a wide array of common problems. Why do some countries perform poorly in delivering healthcare, reducing inequality, providing a clean environment or delivering some other public good to their populations even while they have the resources to do so? Does the capacity of states to provide the basics for societies to thrive
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Introducing the Berggruen Governance Index III. Implications for theory and policy Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Helmut K. Anheier, Olga Kononykhina
This article looks at some of the major implications for theory and policy that follow from the Berggruen Governance Index (BGI). After discussing the BGI's quality as an indicator in more general terms, the article explores two types of implications. The first are conceptual implications that relate to an improved understanding of governance, democracy and economic development. They illustrate the
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A falling star? Origins of declining state capacity and democratic accountability in the United States Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Edward L. Knudsen
The United States—often hailed as the ‘oldest democracy in the world’ and the ‘leader of the free world’—has fallen on hard times. In addition to recent headline-grabbing political events that have highlighted its political dysfunction, data from the 2022 Berggruen Governance Index (BGI) reveal that overall state capacity and democratic accountability have been declining for years. Although public
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Debunking the autocratic fallacy? Improving public goods delivery in Russia Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Christian Fröhlich
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has not only deeply challenged Russia's international standing but has also endangered its fragile domestic order. Data from the 2022 Berggruen Governance Index reveals that overall state capacity has been stagnating at a fairly low level since the beginning of the millennium, while democratic accountability has been declining steadily and profoundly. In contrast, the provision
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Unfinished revolutions: The post-Soviet crisis of governance in Ukraine Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Christian Fröhlich
None of the three revolutions in Ukraine's modern history as an independent state has been able to both solve the problem of political representation and undertake the task of building sustainable democratic institutions. Ukraine's scores from the Berggruen Governance Index (BGI) between 2000 and 2019 show the ups and downs of state capacity and democratic accountability and illustrate not only how
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Stable or stagnant? Political economy and governance in the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Germany since 2000 Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Edward L. Knudsen
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the large democracies of Western Europe experienced some of the most prosperous and peaceful decades in human history. Specifically, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Germany experienced high and stable quality of life, democratic accountability and state capacity between 2000 and 2019, according to the 2022 Berggruen Governance Index. While all four
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Escape from the ‘lost decades?’ Governance challenges in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Edward L. Knudsen
Much of Latin America has experienced a renewed ‘lost decade’, failing to substantially expand quality of life since the late 2000s. While the outcomes of governance performance across the largest countries – including Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina – have discrete causes, common themes like internal conflict, corruption, and overreliance on natural resources plague the entire region
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Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards better governance and sustainability? Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Helmut K. Anheier, Christian Fröhlich, Regina A. List
The countries of the Sub-Saharan region have, on average, made significant progress in governance performance, especially in terms of democratic accountability and public goods provision—findings that seem to contradict patterns of state fragility and economic underdevelopment common in the region. This article explores this seeming contradiction and presents in more detail findings from the Berggruen
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Advancing governance indicators: Four ways forward Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Helmut K. Anheier
This article goes beyond the presentation, assessment and discussion of the Berggruen Governance Index by suggesting potential next steps for governance indicators and relevant data systems more generally. Specifically, it addresses four ways to advance research on governance performance. The first two, greater cross-validation and cross-fertilisation and a systematic assessment of the legal-regulatory
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Localising aid: Urban displacement, contested public authority and legitimacy in Jordan and Lebanon Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Dolf J. H. te Lintelo, Tim Liptrot
Globally, tens of millions of forcibly displaced people live in informal urban neighbourhoods. Although critical sites for humanitarian and development intervention, municipal authorities may have only a limited presence. Especially in conflict and post-conflict settings, other non-state actors emerge to compete for public authority. While the localisation agenda of international donors seeks to better
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Qatar's foreign aid and political strategies in the Horn of Africa: The case of Somalia Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Altea Pericoli, Federico Donelli
The purpose of this article is to analyse the relationship between Qatar's foreign policy and foreign aid in the Horn of Africa (HoA), with a particular focus on Somalia. Since the 2017 blockade, the HoA has become increasingly important to Qatar's foreign policy and aid efforts, intensifying political and economic competition with other Gulf players. This research describes Qatar's foreign policy
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Technology as a paradigm to investigate war Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Xi Lin
Critiquing Paul Kelly's unsophisticated grouping of political thinkers into two broad camps of a pre-state and (post-)state era, this article attempts to use the paradigm of technology as an alternative narrative to examine the phenomena of war, conflict and revolution. Drawing on Heidegger and Stiegler, the technology in war is regarded as a way of not only revealing our being in the world, but unconcealing
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To go with or against the grain? Politics as practice in the Budget Strengthening Initiative, Uganda Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Rose Pinnington
Responding to the failures of the good governance agenda in the post-Cold War period, development scholars and policy researchers have placed increasing emphasis on approaches that can enable practitioners to support local change processes in politically savvy ways. Sometimes referred to as the ‘second orthodoxy’ in donor practice, these models aim to take the politics of aid-receiving contexts seriously
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Does earmarked funding affect the performance of international organisations? Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Bernhard Reinsberg, Christian Siauwijaya
What determines the performance of international organisations (IOs)? We argue that funding structures remain an overlooked driver of IO performance. Over the past decades, donor governments have provided an increasing share of their contributions to IOs in the form of earmarked resources, which provide them with the opportunity to restrict the use of funding to specific themes, sectors, regions, countries
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Remembering the scholarship of Nathan Sears: A forum in memoriam Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Emma Lecavalier, Gregory Stiles
The team at Global Policy: Next Generation were heartbroken to hear of the tragic and untimely passing of Dr. Nathan Alexander Sears earlier this year. GPNG is an initiative focused on amplifying the scholarship of early career researchers—exceptional thinkers at the beginning of their professional academic careers. As editors and as colleagues, we were not prepared to be writing in memoriam about
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Two meetings Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Scott Janzwood
I had the pleasure of encountering Nathan Sears on two separate occasions—in the first week of his PhD and on the final day of his life. The first time we met, Nathan's ideas about why Great Powers fail to effectively address existential risks were just starting to take shape. The second time we met, Nathan, now a newly minted PhD, presented his fully formed theory of macrosecuritisation failure at
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Existential security: Safeguarding humanity or globalising power? Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Tom Hobson, Olaf Corry
Nathan Sears' (2020) exploration of how a policy of ‘existential security’ might be fostered represents one of the first efforts to systematically think through security and how it might relate to thinking about existential risks. The concept of existential risk emerged in the early twenty-first century (see, e.g. Bostrom, 2002). It refers to the idea that there are a class of hazards which may ‘threaten
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Inter-city collaboration: Why and how cities work, learn and advocate together Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Katharine A. Robb, Michelle LaPointe, Kathryn Hemsing, Grant Anderson, James Anderson, Jorrit de Jong
City governments are at the forefront of public problem-solving. As they deliver services to residents and work to tackle complex social challenges, they often coordinate and communicate with each other. Against the backdrop of globalisation and urbanisation, which have been documented and analysed widely, the phenomenon of inter-city collaboration (ICC) has remained understudied. In this article,
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Intergenerational Preparedness: Climate Change, Community Interest Obligations and the Environmental Rule of Law Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Petra Minnerop
This article argues that the protection of ‘community interests’ in international law includes intertemporal obligations of States, in cases where it is scientifically foreseeable that preserving the ‘status quo’ of a protected community interest is increasingly unlikely. The argument is developed for climate change as a ‘common concern of humankind’ and based on the premise that even if a temperature
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Equalising the evidence base for adaptation and loss and damages Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Friederike E. L. Otto, Frederick Fabian
Since the UNFCCC Paris Agreement came into force after 2015 international climate policy rests on three pillars: mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage. However, while there are clear agreed-upon metrics to measure emissions, base mitigation goals against and hold countries and companies accountable to, the evidence base for the impacts of climate change to inform adaptation and loss and damage
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Global Development Governance 2.0: Fractured accountabilities in a divided governance complex Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Sebastian Haug, Jack Taggart
The proliferation of state and non-state actors, along with increasing institutional complexity, has led to a qualitative shift in Global Development Governance (GDG) towards what we term ‘GDG 2.0’. Realising accountability in this context presents challenges due to growing actor diversity, institutional plurality and a lack of formalised accountability structures. Building on the introduction to this
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War in World Society: Towards a new order of global constitutionalism? Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Hauke Brunkhorst
In world society, all wars are world wars and so is the present war in Ukraine even if the use of violence is broadly restricted to the Ukrainian area (a restriction imposed clearly imposed by global politics). World society emerged between 1750 and 1850 together with the first world wars and world revolutions that were fought on all continents and oceans (1). There is no society beyond world society
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The New Development Bank: Directions on strategic partnerships Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Suresh Nanwani
The New Development Bank (NDB)’s partnership and cooperation with other international organizations and other financial institutions has been a key element of the strategic vision, design and institutional development of the Bank. For the NDB ‘partnering’ and ‘partnerships’ became part of the agenda of the NDB. But how the NDB would actually do ‘partnerships’ or ‘partnering’ was not predetermined.
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Labour provisions in trade agreements and women's rights in the global south Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Ida Bastiaens, Evgeny Postnikov, Anne-Kathrin Kreft
The effect of trade liberalisation on women has been hotly contested. Here, we take a step back and explore the effect of the institutions underlying trade on freedoms for women in the Global South. We build on the literature showing that the design of trade agreements matters for social welfare outcomes and argue that labour provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) can contribute to improved
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Net zero portfolio targets for development finance institutions: Challenges and solutions Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Sam Fankhauser, Sugandha Srivastav, Ingrid Sundvor, Stephanie Hirmer, Gireesh Shrimali
Development finance needs to be better aligned with climate change objectives, and many experts see net zero portfolio targets as a powerful way to achieve this. This paper explores the operational implications of net zero portfolio targets for development finance institutions (DFIs). We set out an agenda to move development finance towards net zero goals in a way that acknowledges development concerns
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‘Call the Bluff’ or ‘Build Back Better’—Anti-corruption reforms in post-war Ukraine Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Michael Martin Richter
The fight against corruption is presented as a leading principle in policy papers and at donor conferences discussing Ukraine's reconstruction. It therefore mirrors the usual narrative surrounding post-war reconstruction and democracy promotion attempts. However, reconstruction aid has historically been used for illicit means by elites and ended up strengthening an uneven system rather than building
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Hybrid warfare and disinformation: A Ukraine war perspective Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Sascha-Dominik Dov Bachmann, Dries Putter, Guy Duczynski
Misinformation, disinformation and mal information are part of the information disorder construct, dominating the information warfare domain. These are key enablers associated with grey zone operations, and an integral part of current adversaries' and competitors' hybrid warfare tool kit. Disinformation, in combination with influence operations, also plays an important role within the concept of hybrid
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Health systems appraisal of the response to antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries in relation to COVID-19: Application of the WHO building blocks Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Jay Patel, Genevie Fernandes, Ambele Judith Mwamelo, Devi Sridhar
COVID-19 has inflicted both beneficial and damaging effects on health systems responding to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Data shows that the positive impacts of the pandemic (including enhanced hygiene, mask wearing and widespread use of personal protective equipment), are likely to have been overshadowed by the negative effects: emerging AMR pathogens and mechanisms; further outbreaks and geographic
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Decoding the star system: Twitter and its impact on journalism in the global South Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Aasim Khan, Midhat Fatimah, Kabir Dureja, Vedant Jumle
Changes brought about by the digitalisation of journalism in the global South have implications for the role that the press plays in politics and governance, particularly in terms of giving a voice to those on the margins. This paper presents original evidence from India to consider how Twitter is reshaping the hierarchies within journalism and how it contributes to a ‘star system’ in Indian media
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Fair and inclusive markets: Why dynamism matters Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov, Philippe Aghion
We argue that the economies that achieved inclusive growth, or high sustained and broad-based growth while keeping a lid on the increase in market income inequality, are characterised by dynamism—a drive towards the acquisition of new capabilities in sophisticated products and processes. What a country produces and how much it competes domestically and internationally are important for achieving fair
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The World Economic Forum: An unaccountable force in global health governance? Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Desmond McNeill
The World Economic Forum is a major player in global health governance, promoting the role of the private sector and specific public–private partnerships (PPPs). It exerts influence in three main ways: by exercising convening power, most notably in Davos where the most powerful representatives of the private sector meet with heads of governments and international organisations; by shaping ideas through
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New architectures for bottom-up science diplomacy: Learning from the evolving Portuguese diaspora in the UK Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Luís Miguel Lacerda, Manuel Heitor, Jean-Christophe Mauduit
Scientific diasporas and related non-state actors have increasingly been coming into play to permeate and promote modern science diplomacy. However, these non-formal collaborative architectures are particularly complex to sustain, and their systematic and long-term action rely very much on conjunctural and, above all, individual engagement. The paper provides a multi-stakeholder perspective that analyses
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Institutional isomorphism in corporate Twitter discourse on citizenship and immigration in India and the United States Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Shehla Rashid Shora, Arshia Arya, Joyojeet Pal
High net-worth individuals (HNIs) play important roles in influencing policy through their voices. Technology-mediated means of addressing issues, such as social media activism, have become a central part of such policy advocacy. We examined the Twitter engagement of the 50 wealthiest individuals and their ‘networks’ in India and the United States, specifically their engagement with citizens' movements
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Boundary experts: Science and politics in measuring the Sustainable Development Goals Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Thor Olav Iversen
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) purport to cleanly separate politics and technical matters, embodied by the political negotiation of goals and targets, and the technical creation of an indicator framework. This article analyses how this boundary between science and politics is managed in practice. The statisticians tasked with selecting indicators through the Inter-agency and Expert Group