Global Policy Journal - Articles

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

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

The Nuclear Deal Turns Two: Barely Alive or Already Dead?

Cornelius Adebahr — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 10:32:51 +0000

European policy toward Iran is likely to be hampered both by transatlantic tensions and regional turmoil. While the EU in principle follows the right approach by defending the nuclear deal of 2015, co...Read more

Early View Article - Five Questions for Economic Policy after 2008

Edward Price — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 20:21:19 +0000

A pervasive belief in market efficiency, especially in self-correcting financial markets, was damaged by the 2007–8 financial crisis. A vision of functional, not dysfunctional, markets nonethele...Read more

Afghanistan: In Search for an Alternative Route to Stability

Kalam Shahed — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 13:49:59 +0000

After the US invasion of Afghanistan, while there were some successes in fighting international terrorists in the region, Western attempts at state-building in Afghanistan remain a dismal failure. Aft...Read more

What is the Future for the International Civil Service? On Global Public Administration

Jean-Marc Coicaud — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:42:07 +0100

Generally speaking, questions of human resources in the United Nations common system,which brings together 28 organizations, tend to be understudied by academics. Very little scholarship is indeed ded...Read more

Negotiating Sustained Action for Sustainable Development – Application to Students in South Sudan

Frederick Mugisha — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 12:09:44 +0100

The global agenda on sustainable development will require a process to inspire individual and organization SDG-related actions and commit to report progress on until 2030. It will be powerful for exam...Read more

A New Role for IPCC: Balancing Science and Society

Mukul Sanwal, Can Wang, Bo Wang and Yuan Yang — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 17:13:52 +0100

There is a new role for global climate policy and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to support national implementation. For keeping within global ecological limits, public debate ha...Read more

Grexit, Brexit, Fixit … The Dynamics of Division in the Age of Trump

James K. Galbraith — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:43:01 +0100

This essay discusses the drift toward European disunion in the wake of the Athens Spring and its repression, through the Brexit vote, the French elections, and the new political context of the adminis...Read more

Mesas Ejecutivas in Peru: Lessons for Productive Development Policies

Piero Ghezzi — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:50:35 +0100

Middle-income countries are likely to face an uncertain path to development. Their strategy may need to mutate from a focus on manufacturing to a multipronged one. Unleashing the potential of those se...Read more