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Navigating between Stasis and Chaos: Crafting a Course through Disruptive Storms

Posted Aug 25, 2025| by Sean Cleary - Founder and Executive Vice-Chair of FutureWorld Foundation

The world is at an historical inflection point, defined by a shift in the geo-economic centre of gravity from the Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific; a lesser capacity by the United States to project power across the globe to maintain the “rules-based international order” that it... Read More

Is the Prohibition on the Use of Force Collapsing?

Posted on Sep 16, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The post-World War II prohibition on the use of force is under assault, with Russia on the verge of seizing large swathes of eastern Ukraine, and President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Canada and Greenland. China has for years been building military installations on contested... Read More

What To Watch in Fall 2025

Posted on Sep 08, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by German Marshall Fund of the US

Ten experts of the German Marshall Fund of the US note in their article that 2025 has been a turbulent year for transatlantic relations thus far. US tariffs hit Europe after a trade deal, European leaders have increasingly stepped up their commitments to shift the... Read More

Is Public Trust in the UN Falling? A Look at Global Survey Data

Posted on Sep 09, 2025 | in category: Improving global governance | by Vision of Humanity

While trust in the UN has gradually eroded over the course of several decades, there was little evidence of a major, widespread drop in trust despite major crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, confidence in the... Read More

A New International Approach to Beating Serious and Organised Crime

Posted on Sep 16, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

This paper by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change highlights the need for a bolder, strategic and proactive set of tools beyond law enforcement to address organised crime - including sanctions, online disruption and new global mechanisms that match the transnational nature of the... Read More

Who Favors Return? Exploring the Drivers of Attitudes Toward Return Migration in Europe

Posted on Sep 08, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies

In recent years, return migration, particularly coerced returns of rejected asylum seekers and irregular migrants, has become a politically charged issue in European public discourse.. The trend is particularly evident in Western European countries, where immigration became salient in national elections and radical right-wing parties... Read More

Closing Gaps, Opening Opportunities: The G20’s Progress on Women’s Economic Empowerment - and What Comes Next

Posted on Sep 11, 2025 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by Center for Global Development

In 2014, G20 leaders made a historic commitment in Brisbane, Australia, to reduce the gap in labour force participation between men and women by 25 percent by 2025, to bring 100 million additional women into the workforce, increase global growth, and reduce poverty and inequality... Read More