The Rise of Cities as Global Actors: What Consequences for Policy?
Are cities beginning to articulate a distinctive agenda in international affairs, one that sets them apart as diplomatic actors in their own right? A growing body of opinion thinks so (Attwell, 2013;...
View ArticleEarly View Article - Thinking Outside The United Nations Box: Barriers To...
The United Nations (UN) has long been criticized for being an inflexible and expensive bureaucracy (e.g. Seager, 2006). A number of recent alleged failures in the health and climate sectors have been...
View ArticleEarly View Article - The Right to Food Beyond De-Mythification: Time to Shed...
‘What use is a vote if you are starving?’ the Economist asked in 2007 along with, ‘Why not add pressing social and economic concerns to stuffy old political rights such as free speec...Read more
View ArticleEarly View Article - The Road Forward for the Arms Trade Treaty: A Civil Society
Civil society – particularly the Control Arms coalition – played a pivotal role in imagining and campaigning for the 2013 Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), the first comprehensive global regulation...Read more
View ArticleSecure our Future: Towards a European Energy Strategy
Energy is the lifeblood of our society. Our way of life is inconceivable without reliable and affordable supplies of energy: electricity, heat and fuel. Never before has the world needed so much...
View ArticleOvercoming the Mikado Situation
The history of energy concentrates on the history of energy supply. In contrast, this article is about energy demand. A real revolution in global energy demand has taken place over the last 60 years,...
View ArticleGoverning Climate Change: A Case for Europe
Climate change is undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges of our time. Its urgency is demonstrated time and again by the ever-increasing number of extreme weather events and natural disasters....
View ArticleThe Need for Momentum in Europe's Climate Change Policies: Experiences from...
For many years the EU has been a pioneer – and even a role model – in its climate change policies. These policies have been critical not only for European countries, but for the entire glo...Read more
View ArticleWhy Germany's Energiewende Reminds Us of the Virtues of Cooperation
Given that 25 per cent of Germany's electricity is now coming from renewable sources, the country's energy transition (Energiewende) has entered its adolescence. Like most teenagers it sometim...Read more
View ArticleEurope's Role in Global Governance: Changing the European Debate
Lord William Wallace considers Europe's role in a changing sphere of global governance. Reflecting upon Britain's 19th century role as the benevolent hegemon, and the influence of the US follo...Read more
View ArticleEarly View Article - Brands Weigh Up Their Social Role
Our current model of consumerism is broken. That is no new insight, nor is it a bad thing. Few of the late high street shops will be sorely missed, from Comet to HMV to that trader in nostalgia, Past...
View ArticleBrands Weigh Up Their Social Role
Our current model of consumerism is broken. That is no new insight, nor is it a bad thing. Few of the late high street shops will be sorely missed, from Comet to HMV to that trader in nostalgia, Past...
View ArticleGlobalization and International Business as Interdependent Phenomena
Whether it is the relocation of a local plant to another country by a multinational corporation (MNC), the availability of a vast array of fruits and vegetables at the local supermarket throughout...
View ArticleInternational Education: The Hard Edge of Soft Power
This paper sets out some current dimensions of the political evolution of international education which has become one of the world's great export commodity. The focus is on the emerging gap...
View ArticleInternational University Campuses and the Knowledge Economy: The University...
The article examines how the steady growth in international education in the 1990s, particularly in the mobile cohort of international fee-paying students, contributed to the gradual re-formulation...
View ArticleThe Role for Technical and Vocational Education and Training and Donor...
The spread and impact of globalization and the way economies are increasingly linked, means labour demand and supply and the delivery and acquisition of skills has a decisive impact on people's...
View ArticleEarly View Article - Information Revolution and International Organizations:...
Information is a strategic dimension of the actions of international organizations (IOs). In IOs as in other types of institutions, information and knowledge are required as a basis for sound...
View ArticleInformation Revolution and International Organizations: Three Challenges for...
Information is a strategic dimension of the actions of international organizations (IOs). In IOs as in other types of institutions, information and knowledge are required as a basis for sound...
View ArticleEarly View Article - The Triple Crisis: Why Humanitarian Organisations (and...
On 12 December 2013, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) published an open letter to Valerie Amos, United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.1...
View ArticleEarly View Article - Interdependence and Responsibility
The forces that unite us, often collected under the signature ‘globalization’, have brought great progress and prosperity. They have also, however, created new dangers. In this interconnec...Read more
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