Global Policy Journal - Articles

Promising Trends in Access to Medicines

E.Richard Gold and Jean Frederic Morin — Wed 23 May 2012

It is a vast understatement to say that the problem of access to medicines in developing countries is complex. Access is limited by a range of factors including inability to pay, a lack of infrastruct...Read more

A Systematic Approach to Studying Fisheries Governance

Xavier Basurto and Mateja Nenadovic — Tue 7 Feb 2012

How can policies for governing marine fisheries become more effective? How can we engage in developing a new science of fisheries governance that promotes knowledge accumulation and collective learnin...Read more

Financial Crisis, SWF Investing, and Implications for Financial Stability

Joonkyu Park and Han van der Hoorn — Tue 7 Feb 2012

The recent global financial crisis has significantly affected sovereign wealth funds’ (SWFs’) financial performance and their investment activities. The crisis shed a new light on SWFs&rsq...Read more

The Political Economy of Ecology: Prospects for Transforming the World Economy at Rio Plus 20

Peter M. Haas — Mon 30 Jan 2012

This article assesses the prospects for advancing to a green economy at Rio Plus 20 through the perspective of international political economy writings on economic transformations and regime governanc...Read more

The Case for Decoupled Armed Interventions

Amitai Etzioni — Mon 30 Jan 2012

This article suggests that if the humanitarian goals of armed interventions are decoupled from coerced regime change and nation building, they can be carried out effectively and at rather low costs. I...Read more

Reforming the International Monetary Fund

Ross P. Buckley — Mon 9 Jan 2012

This article explores the International Monetary Fund’s performance through crises ranging from the debt crisis of 1982 to the global financial crisis of 2008. The rise of market fundamentalism ...Read more

Law of War 2.0: Cyberwar and the Limits of the UN Charter

Jasper Kim — Wed 5 Oct 2011

‘War’ as we have known and understood it until the 20th century – conflicts involving kinetic weapons such as bullets, missiles, machine guns, tanks, ships, aircraft carriers, submar...Read more

The Biological Weapons Convention and the Democratization of Mass Violence

Barry Kellman — Tue 3 May 2011

The global governance regime to address the vast dangers of intentionally inflicted disease is ineffectively adaptive to meet emerging challenges. Scientific advances pertaining to manipulation of dis...Read more

The G20 and its regional critics: the search for inclusion

Andrew F. Cooper — Tue 3 May 2011

This article presents an analysis of the G20 which, while recognising the innovative capacity of this leaders’ forum, also addresses one of its major sources of contestation, the lack of equitab...Read more

Fundamental UN Reform, a Non-Starter?

Thomas G. Weiss — Tue 3 May 2011

The major issues confronting world politics in the 21st century – climate change, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, pandemics, terrorism and economic meltdowns, among others – ...Read more