https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/ en https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/21/10/2026/can-ai-doom-be-form-hype Adam Chalmers compares the reported language of Anthropic’s IPO prospectus with 2,825 US prospectuses filed since 1994. Warnings of harm to humanity are almost unheard of in such documents. Promise… 21 October 2026 Adam Chalmers 8524 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/20/10/2026/competing-norm-entrepreneurs-brics-institutional-flexibility-and-normative Harjeet Singh argues that BRICS is not a unified challenger to the Western-led global order but a site of competing normative visions producing structured fragmentation rather than a coherent… 20 October 2026 8523 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/19/10/2026/near-parity-and-strategic-stability-ai-and-space-race Nayef Al-Rodhan examines how near-parity can help manage geostrategic competition between major powers in AI and outer space. He argues that reciprocal restraint, rather than technological dominance,… 19 October 2026 Nayef Al-Rodhan 8526 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/19/10/2026/capturing-re-imagining-new-middle-power-moment-mark-carneys-davos-address Mark Carney’s January 2026 Davos address resonated well beyond policy circles, conveying the message that middle powers are not powerless in an international order where great powers weaponise… 19 October 2026 Andrew F. Cooper 8522 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/19/10/2026/can-capitalism-30-save-globalization-rebalancing-integration-sovereignty-and Globalization is not ending, but its hyper-integrated form is becoming increasingly unsustainable. By extending Dani Rodrik’s “Capitalism 3.0” framework to account for asymmetries in global rule… 19 October 2026 Jianyong Yue 8520 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/16/10/2026/us-and-china-outcomes-their-cold-war Within the current Cold War between the US and China, four plausible outcomes are on the table. China and the United States are engaged in a profound rivalry — indeed, a new Cold War. Both the self… 16 October 2026 Alfredo Toro Hardy 8521 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/14/10/2026/diagnostic-sovereignty-fracturing-world José Pereira-Leal argues that diagnostics should be understood as the sensing infrastructure of bio-sovereignty. Governments increasingly recognise their strategic importance, but recognition rarely… 14 October 2026 José Pereira-Lea 8518 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/13/10/2026/ai-diplomacy-needs-authority-behind-its-promises Percy Yixuanchen Yu argues that international AI commitments need explicit domestic authority and tested procedures for obtaining and sharing risk information. An AI laboratory discovers that its… 13 October 2026 Percy Yixuanchen Yu 8517 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/12/10/2026/rethinking-sources-chinese-conduct-how-china-rose-why-china-behaves Not a rising superpower but an unfinished one: China's dependent development explains why Beijing seeks stability at home and only a Cold Peace, not dominance, abroad. What explains China’s growing… 12 October 2026 Jianyong Yue 8519 https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/12/10/2026/book-review-irans-rise-and-rivalry-us-middle-east Iran’s Rise and Rivalry with the US in the Middle East by Mohsen M. Milani. London: Oneworld Publications 2025. 384 pp., £25 hardcover 9780861548422, £12.99 paperback 9781836431091, £13.99 e-book… 12 October 2026 Rahana Sherin KV 8516