4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (524+ words) But within the underlying structural factors we also find what French historian Fernand Braudel called the long-term causes beneath the specific events (Braudel, 1970). In relation to China and the U. S. this could relate to their own perceptions of history and their…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (214+ words) Recently, I stumbled across a piece that had prompted Chat GPT to "self-reflect" on its way of writing, something on the lines of "which words do you overuse, Chat GPT? . This led me down a rabbit hole of research on…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (234+ words) On May 15, 1955, the foreign ministers of the four occupying powers signed the Austrian State Treaty in the Belvedere Palace in Vienna. Ten years of occupation ended. Austria was reconstituted as a free, democratic republic'built, constitutionally, on the framework that Hans…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (406+ words) Global Policy Journal Early View Article - Tagging the Emirate: Language, Coordination and the Taliban's Digital Pursuit of Legitimacy This study examines how political actors leverage social media in Afghanistan as a tool for political legitimation. Framing social media as a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (745+ words) Today, a different kind of crisis is reshaping biotechnology. It is not a single pandemic or a single war, but a wider condition of geopolitical instability. Strategic competition between major powers, regional conflict, sanctions, disrupted trade routes and growing mistrust…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (481+ words) Global Policy Journal Early View Article - How Due Diligence Transforms Private Sustainability Governance: The Case of the Global Organic Textile Standard Growing awareness of social and environmental risks in global supply chains has driven a shift from voluntary corporate responsibility…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (873+ words) Extreme poverty has'fallen faster than at any point in human history. Yet for the first time in decades,'that progress may be about to stall. Over the past four decades, the number of people living below the international poverty line…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (515+ words) The FCA is no longer primarily concerned with whether credit ratings are accurate. The question it is now asking is whether the processes through which financial judgement is produced, reviewed, challenged, and legitimised can sustain trust under uncertainty. That shift…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (930+ words) Global anticorruption enforcement has, for forty years, depended on a mechanism its architects never admitted was load-bearing. The February 2025 US enforcement pause has made that dependency visible. The central argument of this piece is that the UNCAC framework cannot fill…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (246+ words) Yet the outbreak also demonstrates that many of the structural conditions associated with recurrent Ebola outbreaks remain unresolved. Reports indicate a delay of several weeks between the onset of symptoms in the presumed index case and laboratory confirmation, highlighting continuing…...