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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.

Global Humanitarian Action at the Crossroads

Posted Apr 03, 2025| by Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

The new UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and emergency relief coordinator, Tom Fletcher, has called for a “humanitarian reset” as the UN-led humanitarian system reaches breaking point. Even as global humanitarian needs continue to rise, traditional donor countries, most notably the United States under the... Read More

Securing Europe’s Future: Partnership Through Strength

Posted on Apr 10, 2025 | in category: Improving global governance | by Carnegie Strategic Europe

In less than three months, the Trump administration has seriously depleted strategic trust across the Atlantic. It has sought engagement and normalization with Russia while sidelining Ukraine and Europe, threatened to seize Greenland, imposed massive tariffs on European goods, and disparaged Europe’s democratic norms. Giovanni... Read More

No Brain, No Brawn: Trump 2.0 Makes an EU Economic Security Network Essential

Posted on Mar 28, 2025 | in category: Improving global governance | by European Council on Foreign Relations

The success of the EU’s response to challenges posed by Russia, China, and Trump 2.0 will hinge on the bloc’s ability to establish itself as a global geoeconomic power by leveraging its economic strength to pursue foreign policy goals, Agathe Demarais and Abraham Newman argue... Read More

The Transatlantic Alliance is Fractured, not Broken

Posted on Mar 31, 2025 | in category: Improving global governance | by Engelsberg Ideas

Despite the severe strains that are being placed on the transatlantic alliance by the Trump Administration, Europe and the United States are bound by highly integrated economic and security ties that are likely to persist. George Magnus reasons in his article for Engelsberg Ideas that... Read More

Existential Threats and Neoliberalism

Posted on Mar 27, 2025 | in category: Improving global governance | by Business Recorder

No country can be safe if it follows ultra-nationalism, and where elites continue to build walls of extractive institutions to watch out for their vested interests suggests Omer Javed in his opinion piece for the Business Recorder. There is thus a need for a Bretton... Read More

BRICS Expansion and the Future of World Order: Perspectives from Member States, Partners, and Aspirants

Posted on Apr 07, 2025 | in category: Improving global governance | by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The expansion of the BRICS+ coalition has been heralded as a defining moment in the creation of a post-Western global order. However, given the diversity of the aspirations and goals of BRICS+ member states, it is unclear whether the BRICS+ members can coalesce around a... Read More

The AU Commission’s New Leadership: A New Dawn or Familiar Shadows?

Posted on Apr 01, 2025 | in category: Improving global governance | by Accord

The new leadership in Africa inherits a complex dossier of challenges. From the protracted war in Sudan and the fragile peace in South Sudan, to the resurgent violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the volatile Sahel region, the continent is grappling... Read More