Global Policy Journal - Comment & Opinion https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/ en How Sanctions Can Lower the Threshold for War https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/23/07/2026/how-sanctions-can-lower-threshold-war Mohammad Reza Farzanegan argues that sanctions can weaken a target country’s conventional military capacity while making military escalation appear less costly to its adversaries. Iran’s experience… 23 July 2026 Mohammad Reza Farzanegan 8409 China’s Trade Surplus Is Not Europe’s Real Problem https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/23/07/2026/chinas-trade-surplus-not-europes-real-problem Luigi Capoani and Marta Bisol argue that Brussels’ anxiety over China’s surplus misreads the real problem: Europe’s own underinvestment in innovation and its outdated, resource-intensive model of… 23 July 2026 Marta Bisol 8399 The Next WHO Director-General in an Age of Fragmentation https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/22/07/2026/next-who-director-general-age-fragmentation As the WHO begins selecting its next Director-General, the qualities required for effective leadership are evolving. In an increasingly fragmented global health landscape, the next Director-General… 22 July 2026 Nelson Aghogho Evaborhene 8408 End of a World Order Under Stress: From Pax Americana to Pax Mysterium? https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/global-governance/end-world-order-under-stress-pax-americana-pax-mysterium The abrupt end of the world order established circa 1945, which was under stress since the global financial crisis in 2008, is the starting point for this essay. The object is to analyze its… 21 July 2026 Deepak Nayyar 8407 Deadlock by Design: The Security Council at a Breaking Point https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/21/07/2026/deadlock-design-security-council-breaking-point Ayesha Naz examines why the UN Security Council's veto system, unchanged since 1945, has turned the body into an instrument of paralysis rather than peace. The UN Security Council failed the people… 21 July 2026 Ayesha Naz 8397 What Endures: Navigating AI and the End of Aid as We Knew It https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/20/07/2026/what-endures-navigating-ai-and-end-aid-we-knew-it Duncan Green on what will survive and what will go in a sector that buffetted by crises.  Please excuse the self absorption, but I’ve recently been mulling over the personal impact of two huge… 20 July 2026 Duncan Green 8400 Post-Covid inflation was a monetary phenomenon https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/20/07/2026/post-covid-inflation-was-monetary-phenomenon Money supply became a dominant driver of post-Covid inflation, explaining more than one third of medium-term price dynamics. Once the European Central Bank's balance sheet expands beyond a certain… 20 July 2026 Daniel Rodríguez Asensio and Ana M. López García 8398 Global governance with Chinese characteristics? https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/16/07/2026/global-governance-chinese-characteristics As older hegemons increasingly look inward, Mark Beeson explores overlooked Chinese ideas to address major global problems. Whatever you think about the People’s Republic of China, the government’s… 16 July 2026 Mark Beeson 8392 Sovereignty Through Collaboration: What Geneva's Digital Week Revealed About the Limits of the Multilateral Turn https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/15/07/2026/sovereignty-through-collaboration-what-genevas-digital-week-revealed-about-limits Emrys Schoemaker makes the case for more research on impossibility and potential of digital sovereignty.  On Monday 6 July, António Guterres opened the first Global Dialogue on AI… 15 July 2026 Emrys Schoemaker 8396 The Global South Needs Its Own Definition of FIMI https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/15/07/2026/global-south-needs-its-own-definition-fimi Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Yeta Purnama argue that the future of information competition will be decided in the Global South and it must be ready. Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference… 15 July 2026 Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Yeta Purnama 8391