Tag: Global Governance

Edelman Trust Barometer: Cycle of distrust threatens action on global challenges (Kate Whiting, World Economic Forum)

The Edelman Trust Barometer 2022 finds almost two-thirds of people are inclined to distrust organizations, which could impact attempts to tackle COVID-19 and...

The Tribalist Threat to Climate Action (Andrew Sheng, Xiao Geng, Project-Syndicate)

Two global struggles – Cold War II and the fight against climate change – are colliding. By agreeing to hold a virtual summit before...

It’s complicated: Lessons from 25 years of measuring governance (Daniel Kaufmann, Brookings)

Attempting to quantify governance would be rather complicated if not futile. And in any case, national governance changes very slowly, taking generations. Besides, economic...

Are Rules of the Game Possible in the Era of Nuclear Weapons? (Timofei Bordachev, Valdai Discussion Club)

The inglorious end of the US military intervention in Afghanistan (and in the Middle East) made it possible to speculate that the end of the domination of the Western powers in world affairs...

Global – Global governance after COVID-19: Survey report (Brookings)

Kemal Derviş and Sebastian Strauss The Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings conducted a survey on multilateralism in the Spring of 2021 as part of a...

(Pandemic/Global Governance) An Unequal Crisis (HRW)

Lena Simet, Sarah Saadoun When the novel coronavirus began spreading, the shared fate of the globe’s seven billion people came sharply into focus. https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/03/04/unequal-crisis

(Global Governance) Your diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are missing the point. Here’s how to fix them (WEF)

Garkay Wong Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are crucial to our pandemic response but have been among the first to be cut https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/how-to-improve-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiatives-business/

(Global Governance) How improved data could boost humanitarian investment (WEF)

Katherine Garrett-Cox, Helen Alderson Reat Noch The number of people in need of humanitarian aid has jumped by 40% to 235 million in 2021, according...

(Global Governance) IMF Head: How governments can prevent widening inequality (WEF)

Kristalina Georgieva COVID-19 has caused the worst global recession in peacetime, since the Great Depression, writes IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/great-divergence-covid19-recovery-economic/

(Global Governance) The world’s wealthy countries are at risk of a moral default (Atlantic Council)

Vasuki Shastry and Jeremy Mark After a four-year hiatus, multilateralism and global cooperation have made a decisive return to the American president’s agenda. The Biden administration’s...

(Global Governance) Double Standards Are Not Enough: The Impossibility of Morality in a Multipolar World (Valdai Discussion Club)

Timofei Bordachev The state of modern international politics raises fundamental questions with respect to its assessment in theoretical terms. The main feature of the current...

(USA/Global Governance) Blueprints to strengthen governance in addressing global challenges (Brookings)

Joshua P. Meltzer The Biden administration is less than one month old, but the challenges facing the United States—from getting ahead of the COVID-19 crisis...

(Cities/Global Governance) Cities in Global Governance. From multilateralism to multistakeholderism? (CIDOB)

Agustí Fernández de Losada and Marta Galceran-Vercher https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/monographs/monographs/cities_in_global_governance_from_multilateralism_to_multistakeholderism