Rules, regulations, crisis, and repeat: The trouble with global financial governance
By Velibor Jakovleski – With declining hegemony and increasing uncertainty, what are the prospects for governing global finance.
How the Cold War helped spur West European welfare state reform
By Astrid Hedin – During the Cold War, dialogue within IOs helped shape global norms via East-West policy isomorphism.
The Resource Curse and International Law
How does international law affect power and development in resource-wealthy postcolonial countries?
Post-Brexit sanctions in a changing Europe
By Erica Moret – How the UK coordinates its sanctions policies with the EU will be important in a post-Brexit world.
A Norm in the Making: Banning the Global Trade in Tools of Torture
By Ezgi Yildiz – International law prohibits torture, but not the tools used to torture. The Global Alliance for Torture Free Trade aims to change that.
Order, orders, ordering
By Stephanie Hofmann – In a world seemingly in flux, who and what is providing order to international relationships?
Negotiating the role of interpreters in the multilateral system
By Max Crisp – Interpreters play a crucial (yet often underappreciated) role in the processes of global governance.
Global Governance 2.0: Enriching the Regional Content in Global Development Programmes
By Anita Prakash – Are regionally-orientated solutions to global problems the key to achieving sustainable development?
Assessing the BRICS Johannesburg Summit, potential enlargement
By Selçuk Çolakoğlu – Continuing to support multilateralism, the BRICS are now considering enlargement and Turkey is an interesting prospect.
The Anatomy of Legal Change
By Ezgi Yildiz – How can we study legal change globally? A focus on the depth and pace of change could reveal important patterns.
The “Sovereign Debt Sanction”: How monetary policy can be used as foreign policy
By Ramon della Torre – Using sovereign debt securities as instruments to help mitigate conflicts has been largely underestimated.
The Entanglement of Global Legal Order
By Francesco Corradini & Lucy Lu Reimers – New tools are required to understand the complex normative interactions through which the global legal order is being constructed.
The identity-solidarity link: a key challenge for global governance
By Emmanuel Dalle Mulle – The rise of populist and radical parties, accompanied by austerity, poses fundamental challenges to creating truly inclusive social systems.
Why Synchronise National Electoral Cycles?
By Grégoire Mallard –
With voters increasingly dissatisfied with their political leaders and institutions, it’s time to re-think national elections.
Is WTO Dispute Settlement Really “Busier Than Ever”?
By Joost Pauwelyn – In Geneva trade circles one often hears that WTO dispute settlement is “busier than ever”, “a victim of its own success”. A new paper double-checks those claims.
