Global Policy Journal - Articles

Early View Article - Shipping Policy to Fight the Resource Curse

Leif Wenar and Ioannis Kouris — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 10:51:15 +0000

Transnational trade rules endow authoritarians and armed groups with unaccountable power in states rich with natural resources. This structural flaw in international trade generates the ‘resourc...Read more

Early View Article - A Common Framework on Inequalities for G7 Countries

Simone Martelli, Lawrence Bartolomucci and Simone Berardi — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 10:48:49 +0000

High and rising inequality has become one the defining challenges of our time, causing concerns among policymakers, especially in G7 countries. As a response, policy makers have adopted different stra...Read more

Early View Article - Does Government Expenditure Matter for Economic Growth?

Marion Laboure and Emmanuelle Taugourdeau — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 10:47:19 +0000

This paper aims to determine how the composition of public expenditure affects countries’ economic growth depending on their level of development. We show that there is a strong association betw...Read more

Early View Article - Dissecting the 2017 National Security Strategy: Implications for Senior Administrators (the Devil in the Details)

John M. Weaver — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:40:03 +0000

On 18 December 2017 President Trump released his National Security Strategy (NSS). It is the quintessential document that will serve as the azimuth for key government leaders to guide them through the...Read more

Early View Article - A Confucian Case for Equal Membership for Foreign Domestic Workers

Sungmoon Kim — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:39:09 +0000

Daniel A. Bell, a leading Confucian and communitarian political theorist, objects to equal membership to foreign domestic workers (FDWs) in East Asia on two Confucianism-inspired normative and practic...Read more

Early View Article - Internalisation of International Investment Agreements in Public Policymaking: Developing a Conceptual Framework of Regulatory Chill

Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:56:19 +0000

The growing number of public policy measures challenged through investor-state dispute settlement has raised critiques that international investment agreements could lead governments to avoid introduc...Read more

Early View Article - Governing the Global Land Grab

Ethan B. Kapstein — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:55:02 +0000

Following the 2007–2008 world food price crisis, the value of developing world agricultural land shot up, raising concerns about a ‘land grab’, In response, the Committee on World Fo...Read more

Iranian Economy Post-JCPOA and its Ambitions

Cyrus Mehdi-Zadeh — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:42:03 +0000

In a presidential candidates’ debate in 2013, Dr. Rouhani held out a key stating that he was holding the key for unlocking the challenges to Iranian Economy only to correct himself some months l...Read more

Contested Global Governance

Michael Z?rn — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:25:29 +0000

This article aims to contribute to the third generation of global governance research by unfolding the concept of a global governance system consisting of normative principles and patterns of authorit...Read more

Breaking the Cycle of Gridlock

Thomas Hale and David Held — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:25:11 +0000

There is a growing gap between the need for effective global governance and the ability of intergovernmental institutions to provide it. In Gridlock: Why Multilateralism Is Failing when We Need It Mos...Read more