https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/ en https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/03/04/2026/where-chinas-renewable-spillover-indonesia Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara and Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat argue that Indonesia can leverage China’s industrial overcapacity not as a crutch, but as a catalyst. A geopolitical shock thousands of miles… 03 April 2026 Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara and Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat 8248 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/02/04/2026/global-politics-its-not-easy-being-optimist Mark Beeson with a cheerful round-up of the prospects for global cooperation before the Easter break. For anyone trying to make sense of the current moment and what this might suggest about the… 02 April 2026 Mark Beeson 8249 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/02/04/2026/andaman-sea-ghost-fleet-invisible-oil-fueling-myanmars-genocide Tommaso Franco argues that as long as the world permits the existence of a ghost fleet beyond any rules, the sea will continue to be a place of silent violations. There is a stretch of water between… 02 April 2026 Tommaso Franco 8245 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/01/04/2026/bullshit-urgency-and-washing-machines-us-scrambles-plan-iran-pitfalls-loom-large Heiner Janus and Daniel Esser argue that the rush to devise a strategy for Iran is bound to run into bureaucratic pathologies that drive failures in intelligence and foreign aid alike: manufactured… 01 April 2026 Daniel E. Esser and Heiner Janus 8246 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/31/03/2026/trumps-iran-war-may-mark-beginning-end-dollar-backed-us-empire Radical economist Costas Lapavitsas discusses the crumbling of the dollar-backed world system and what could be next. In recent decades, imperialism has been somewhat out of fashion as a subject of… 31 March 2026 8244 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/30/03/2026/work-or-not-work Branko Milanovic asks whether nations not work hard and continue to prosper? Recently, a debate about the number of hours of work people do in different countries has taken very clear political… 30 March 2026 Branko Milanovic 8238 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/24/03/2026/israel-iran-conflict-being-cast-sacred-war-makes-it-harder-stop Muddassar Ahmed argues that the Middle East is witnessing a contest between rival religious and civilisational visions.  The Israel–Iran conflict is increasingly being framed in messianic… 24 March 2026 Muddassar Ahmed 8239 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/23/03/2026/why-we-all-care-about-inequality-are-loath-admit-it Branko Milanovic asks - is it envy or justice? Many economists dismiss the relevance of inequality (if everybody’s income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and argue that only poverty… 23 March 2026 Branko Milanovic 8237 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/20/03/2026/book-review-qatar-and-united-arab-emirates-diverging-paths-regional-and-global Qatar and the United Arab Emirates: Diverging Paths to Regional and Global Power by Emma Soubrier. Boulder, C.O.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2025. 261 pp., $110 hardcover 978-1-962551-06-9, e-book 978… 20 March 2026 Rob Geist Pinfold 8233 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/19/03/2026/not-world-habermas-hoped Mark Beeson argues that we’re a long way from a rational exchange of views about the best ways of saving humanity. Events may shape the world we inhabit, but sometimes their juxtaposition illuminates… 19 March 2026 Mark Beeson 8230