Global Governance and COVID-19: The Implications of Fragmentation and Inequality
COVID-19 has seen nation-state specific solutions become the norm, but this fragmented response faces important limitations in implementing a global response.
Opinion – Internal Simultaneity: A Science of Autobiography
Autobiography should be regarded as way of coming to know the world. We can explore our lives with the same care and wonder we bring to the study of the world at large.
The New Normal: Trauma Informed International Practices During COVID-19
If the current trend of lashing out from a perceived position of victimization and trauma via the United States is upheld throughout the COVID-19 crisis, the globe is truly living in the new norm.
Opinion – The Rise of Mercenarism: Avoiding International Accountability
Mercenaries provide a semi-permanent stronghold in Libya for acting as substitutes for those times when countries cannot rely on their national armies.
NGOs on Coronavirus Mode: The Risks of ‘Business as Usual’
The challengefor NGOs is to gain in reflexivity through an exercise of active observation and assessment, to generate situational responses that need to be constantly assessed.
Low-Cost Institutions: The New Kids on the Global Governance Block
Low-Cost Institutions empower their executive, bureaucratic and societal participants, changing the pattern of authority in global governance and its actors composition.
Opinion – How to Call the COVID-19 Pandemic and Why it Matters
The current crisis was generated neither by a rare ‘black swan’ nor by a well visible ‘grey rhino’. Instead, it was a simple ‘bee in a car’ that caused this disaster.
Militarization in the Age of the Pandemic Crisis
The spectacle of militarization functions as part of a culture of division and fragmentation, all the while refusing ask how the US shares elements of a fascist politics.
Negotiations in the Field: Citizenship, Political Belonging and Appearance
It’s important to be aware that negotiations can be faced in the field before entering it and to know that such feelings of fear, failure, and discomfort are expected.
Uganda’s Transitional Justice Policy Development Process and the International Criminal Court
The ICC acts as a beacon of mainstream transitional justice in conflict and post-conflict settings, which is demonstrated through the ‘peace versus justice debate’.
