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The New ‘Global War’

by Hans Haumer | Apr 26, 2020 | Guests

The coronavirus has overrun the world in no time. This ‘blitzkrieg’ so far only needed four months to destroy many lives, dealing the world economy a serious blow – threatening to topple the Great Depression from its pole position of modern economic catastrophes, and...

A New Global Order? Not necessarily

by Fraser Cameron | Apr 22, 2020 | International Advisory Panel

Establishing a new global order when the two major powers, the United States and China, have intensified their rivalry and have very different views of how the world should be organised is problematic.

Systemic Global Change: Pt. II

by Dr Kennedy Graham | Apr 18, 2020 | Director

Part I on Systemic Global Change explored systemic risk and systemic change, the ‘seminal moments’ of the 20th century when the contemporary international system was established and refined, and the efforts undertaken during the UN era for effecting change. This part...

Systemic Global Change: Pt. I

by Dr Kennedy Graham | Apr 17, 2020 | Director

In A New Global Institution? (11 April), Klaus Bosselmann identified ‘systemic risk’ and ‘systemic change’ as inter-related concepts for embracing a post-pandemic worldview: “A systemic risk is the possibility that a singular event may trigger instability or collapse...

The Global Pandemic – and Missed Opportunities

by Inge Kaul | Apr 14, 2020 | International Advisory Panel

In a study I recently undertook of the G20 (2019), I showed that during the past decade, the main joint, collective action of that body had been to issue communiqués and other types of statements. As a group, G20 Leaders have expressed concern about all kinds of...

A ‘New Global Institution’?

by Klaus Bosselmann Klaus Bosselmann | Apr 13, 2020 | Board

A new global institution would need to have the authority and the means to intervene as intrusively as necessary to stop a contagious outbreak in its tracks. Let us make environmental trusteeship the lasting legacy of this virus.

The Geopolitics of Global Justice

by Ramesh Thakur | Apr 12, 2020 | Board

In March, the International Criminal Court decided to authorise a formal investigation by the chief prosecutor, of war crimes in Afghanistan alleged to have been committed by Afghan, Taliban, and US forces since May 2003. The US Secretary of State attacked the...

The Global Community Catches a Virus

by Dr Kennedy Graham | Mar 31, 2020 | Director

The current global health pandemic is shaking the foundations of the international community of states, possibly to its core. Those foundations still reflect mid-20th c. political-legal thought, institutional structures, and procedural behaviour. Over the past...

COVID-19: Calls for Change

by Colin James | Mar 30, 2020 | Guests

On 26 March, as COVID-19 was pushing countries into defensive lockdown, former Swedish Prime Minister, Carl Bildt, called for a ‘much stronger global mechanism’ than the World Health Organisation to deal with future pandemics. Writing for the Australian Strategic...

‘In the Beginning was the Word’

by Dr Azza Karam | Mar 25, 2020 | International Advisory Panel

For the first time in recorded human history, coming together is a dangerous option, literally done at the risk of health and lives. What does this ‘new normal’ mean? ‘In the beginning was the word’ but now we need to find new ways to communicate.