The Ukraine war certainly featured in conversations. Tellingly, however, Putin steered many talks with leaders towards fuel, trade and transit.
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If our waste crosses borders, our accountability needs to as well.
Redistribution must recognise that most workers are in informal employment.
Most states know that without widely understood and accepted international laws and principles it would be harder to resolve their disagreements peacefully.
Global health funding cracks do not bode well for pandemic governance as recent disease outbreaks are reminding us. What does this mean for developing countries and how do they cope with health emergencies?
Floods regularly devastate Lagos’s informal workers, but traders and residents have built their own systems to adapt where the state has failed.
The global south is clearly becoming more relevant in today’s power politics. Just how these nations choose to exert their influence remains to be seen.
Health workers consistently move from poorer countries to richer ones, a pattern that tracks closely along lines drawn by colonial history.
External assessors don’t always have a full view of a country’s creditworthiness.
Despite large pledges, Indonesia’s US$20 billion JETP has delivered little. Research shows funds are diverted to feasibility studies and donor interests rather than local green energy projects.
The supply of critical minerals like lithium faces serious risks because of the failure of community approval.
In Colombia’s coca-cultivating Catatumbo region on the border with Venezuela, community care and survival efforts amid escalating violence are in a state of emergency.
In light of the U.S. retreat from humanitarian leadership, countries like Canada must assume a more prominent role in sustaining global protection systems.
Public Development Banks provide affordable financing, direct resources where urgently needed and align funding with long-term development strategies.
Five years after first putting forward the notion of ‘active nonalignment,’ former Chilean ambassador Jorge Heine returns to the subject.
The US president wants separate spheres of influence dominated by the US, China and Russia. For small states, this new world order poses both risks and opportunities.
A new report recommends changes to the popular and growing wellness industry to protect workers from mistreatment and exploitation.
Loosening the American grip on global power could be an essential first step towards achieving a more just and balanced international order.
South Africa could use its leadership role to champion the establishment of a global credit rating capacity building initiative.
Holding a conclave to elect a pope is a tradition that goes back centuries.
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Outgoing Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
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Professor of International Relations and Political Science, St. Thomas University (Canada)
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Development & Transformation, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor of Innovation Finance, Faculty of Business, Athabasca University
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Professor of the Politics of Development, University of Oxford
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Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University; Aston University
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Lecturer - National Security College, Australian National University
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Professor emeritus of Sociology, University of Cambridge
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Head of Politics, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor, Management and Organizational Studies, Huron University College and Coordinator of Animal Ethics and Sustainability Leadership, Western University