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Global Responses to the Pandemic, Pt II
In Part I, we focused primarily on the effort of the UN and WHO, and its relationship with some of the major member states. In this part, we explore in more depth the internal dynamics of those powerful countries. National responses – ideological and political...
Global Responses to the Pandemic, Pt I
How have the UN and other international organizations – and indeed the whole global governance system – responded to the COVID-19 outbreak? What are we learning from this response? Back in 2010 we examined (Journal of International Organizations Studies)...
The Future of University: Post-Covid
The Covid-19 induced crisis presents all walks of society with an opportunity to re-evaluate. No more important is that, than in the university sector. It is no secret that the university sector globally has been in crisis for some years. Pre-Covid, there were no...
Systemic Global Change: Part III
In Part II of this blog series, three conclusions were drawn: This decade is likely to be a seminal moment of systemic change to the contemporary international system, updating its 20th features to fit the 21st. The legitimate grouping for decision-making should...
Environmental Victims in the Global Community
My 1998 book, ‘Environmental Victims’, sought to relate the intensifying spread of environmental problems around the world to issues of natural justice, international law, public health, social policy and international security. The project looked at environmental...
The New ‘Global War’
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
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
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
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
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...
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