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While we have particular views on many issues on the Global Agenda, and have commissioned and will continue to promote research into questions affecting these, we are also conscious of the valuable work being done by many other institutions and researchers, some of whom have decades of experience in grappling with aspects of these challenging topics.

In this section of the site – Other Voices – by far the largest of all, we offer a wide cross-section of views and insights.

Geoengineering and Climate Change in an Age of Disinformation and Strategic Competition

Posted May 14, 2024| by Council on Strategic Risks

The long-held taboo in the scientific community that prevented even basic research into climate intervention approaches such as Solar Radiation Management (SRM) appears to be weakening suggest Erin Sikorsky and Tom Ellison in their article for the Council on Strategic Risks. The most imminent security... Read More

Amid a Changing Global Order, NATO Looks East

Posted on May 13, 2024 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by United Sates Institute for Peace

As NATO celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, the Euro-Atlantic security alliance continues to deepen its engagement with Australia, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand, collectively known as the IP4. In her paper, Mirna Galic of the United Sates Institute for Peace, discusses how the... Read More

Trends in Global Arms Trade & India

Posted on May 14, 2024 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Vivekananda International Foundation

In this brief by the Vivekananda International Foundation, Saroj Bishoyi examines and analyses the dynamic trends in the global arms trade, India’s place in it and the implications for security and defence indigenization efforts. He points out that though India remains as the largest importer... Read More

War Economy: Ukraine, the European Union and the Defence Technological and Industrial Base

Posted on May 08, 2024 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy

Ukraine’s defence industry has become a central feature of the country’s military strategy against Russia, and the European Union (EU) understood early on, the potential of cooperation with Ukraine in this sector. In this CSDS Policy Brief, Daniel Fiott explains the several challenges to integrating... Read More

Irregular Migration and Global Justice

Posted on May 13, 2024 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Hague Institute for Social Justice

This policy brief by the Hague Institute for Social Justice draws extensively on the ideas generated during a discussion convened by the Institute on what fair and effective governance of irregular migration might entail, and how a balance can be struck between national security concerns... Read More

How to Decolonise the Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus?

Posted on May 08, 2024 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by BICC Policy Brief

Recent calls to decolonise aid from within international Non-governmental Organisations ((I)NGOs) in the aid sector, stem from a fundamental critique of the international aid system that emerged from the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in 2020. Esther Meininghaus, Rodrigo Bolaños Suárez, Boubacar Haidara et al... Read More

In between International Orders – An Era of Instability: The Need for a Reform Agenda and a New Narrative

Posted on May 08, 2024 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

Economic security; technological sovereignty; securisation of production and value chains; increasing resilience through near-, rear-, green-, alliance- and friend-shoring; and de-risking – are measures leading to fragmentation of the economic and financial systems in addition to fostering renationalisation and de-globalisation. This adds up to a... Read More