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The Global Community Catches a Virus
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
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’
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.
The Global Economy – with virus
The upheaval that Covid-19 is causing in people’s lives around the world is wreaking even greater havoc in the global economy. The impact will be far larger than the damage caused by the Global Financial Crisis. The remedies will have to be much faster and even more...
Global Climate Change
The pattern ahead of the annual UN climate conference in November 2019 (COP-25, Madrid) was spectacularly familiar: over 25,000 participants; worrying reports from climate scientists; more public anxiety about climate change; mobilisation of civil society, with youth...
The University in the Global Age: Pt IV
In this final part, I wrap-up my thoughts on the fundamentals of university reform consistent with, and responsive to, the emergence of the global community. Having argued to date that there is no magic sauce, no equation, no single road-map to university reform for...
Internationally hot, domestically not’
Legal personality is an established part of the law in New Zealand and similar countries. It is widely accepted, for example, that a company or incorporated society can be considered a legal person. Over the last half-century, however, the argument has been advanced...
The University in the Global Age: Pt III
Last month, I offered the view that universities in the emerging global age need to conceptualise themselves as centres of collaboration for the collective creation and dissemination of knowledge. I believe that the future of higher education (HE) is, actually,...
Strengthening Multilateralism through UN Reform
In his December column, former ambassador Colin Keating outlined the concept of a research project which the Centre is about to undertake on Strengthening Multilateralism through UN Reform. This project has its genesis in a speech that Colin gave on the occasion of UN...
Painting Australia’s Bushfires
Dr Tanya Ogilvie-White’s Extinction Series paints Australia’s bushfires; showing landscapes and wildlife being incinerated by the flames.
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