Global Governance

Competitive Multilateralism and the Future of Global Governance

Sefa Secen • Jul 23 2025 • Articles

Whether competitive multilateralism can evolve into a more inclusive, adaptive, and effective framework remains an open question.

Opinion – Gendered Exclusion: Rethinking Taiwan’s Marginalisation

Joseph Black • Jul 10 2025 • Articles

A gendered lens reveals that Taiwan’s exclusion from multilateral institutions is not a passive condition but an active structuring of inequality.

Why ‘Global’ Conferences Aren’t Global

Ann-Murray Brown • Jul 1 2025 • Articles

Global conversations are often shaped without those most affected and structural barriers keep Global South voices out of key international forums.

Review – World Statehood

Bob Jessop • Feb 20 2025 • Features

Patomäki’s book is a rich, critical take on world statehood, blending history, philosophy, and governance, however its length and lack of coherence weaken its impact.

Live Event – Understanding Global Politics with Kevin Bloor

E-International Relations • Oct 12 2023 • Features

On Tuesday 17 October 2023 (4pm BST) join us in live discussion with Kevin Bloor, the author of Understanding Global Politics.

Global Governance: Human Rights and Environmental Governance

Kevin Bloor • May 19 2022 • Articles

The international community faces a number of issues and barriers that are integral towards the fight against climate change, running up against questions of power and influence over the system as a whole.

Global Governance: Political and Economic Governance

Kevin Bloor • May 19 2022 • Articles

An introduction to the political and economic dimensions of global governance and its institutions – with a principal focus on the UN due to its centrality within the global system.

NGOs, Disarmament, and Limits on War Violence

Margarita H. Petrova • Jan 10 2021 • Articles

NGOs are not only agenda-setters working through states and IGOs for norm creation, but also active actors in security governance – taking on new issues and engagements with non-state actors.

Local Autonomy in the Global Context

Dyan Dunsmoor-Farley • Oct 16 2020 • Articles

In the complex constellations of the global/local, the constituent parts are continuously shifting; nothing is sustained forever.

Review – The New World Disorder and the Indian Imperative

Arenla Jamir • Sep 29 2020 • Features

This ambitious and incisive book details the changing international order and offers a succinct analysis of the state of the world today, which is now in complete flux.

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