Global Policy Journal - Comment & Opinion https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/ en Peer Without Precedent: What the US-China Summit Revealed About the Limits of the Decline Debate https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/22/05/2026/peer-without-precedent-what-us-china-summit-revealed-about-limits-decline-debate Ammar Zafar argues that the Washington-Beijing summit produced little of substance but revealed a larger structural fact: the United States now confronts a genuine peer, not a subordinate challenger… 22 May 2026 Ammar Zafar 8305 The Politics of the Ordinary https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/21/05/2026/politics-ordinary Brian Stoddart explores the political movements looking to include disaffected elements in democracies. As in every other hamlet, town and city in France, inhabitants of the tiny Burgundy… 21 May 2026 8301 Integration By Other Means https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/20/05/2026/integration-other-means Europe’s security debate is framed as a choice between deeper integration and fragmentation. Maya Dreier and Robert Schuett argue the EU is moving toward something else—and the shape of it is only… 20 May 2026 Maya Dreier and Robert Schuett 8311 Toward a Cold Peace? The Strategic Logic Behind U.S.-China “Stability” https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/20/05/2026/toward-cold-peace-strategic-logic-behind-us-china-stability Washington and Beijing’s new language of “stability” is less a thaw than a calculated pause - an uneasy equilibrium that could harden into a far more perilous Cold Peace unless durable guardrails are… 20 May 2026 8304 Governing the Algorithmic Storefront: AI Chatbots, Big Data, and the Imperative for Global E-Commerce Policy https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/19/05/2026/governing-algorithmic-storefront-ai-chatbots-big-data-and-imperative-global-e AI chatbots and big data have emerged as the new framework for customer loyalty, as businesses that ignore them have already fallen behind. Recent technologies transforming global retail without… 19 May 2026 Feroz Ahmed 8302 Helium, Semiconductors, and the Strategic Risk of Hormuz https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/19/05/2026/helium-semiconductors-and-strategic-risk-hormuz Omid Zamani and Mohammad Reza Farzanegan offer three policy steps to reduce vulnerabilities to Helium shortages. The Strait of Hormuz is again at the centre of global policy debate. The current… 19 May 2026 Omid Zamani and Mohammad Reza Farzanegan 8299 Reimagining Development Cooperation: The Four Faces of ‘Mutual Interest’ https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/18/05/2026/reimagining-development-cooperation-four-faces-mutual-interest The OECD Conference on the Future of International Development Co-operation convened in Paris on 11-12 May 2026. Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel consider one core idea arising. The OECD… 18 May 2026 Andy Sumner and Stephan Klingebiel  8303 What to Play Next: Development after the End of Development https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/18/05/2026/what-play-next-development-after-end-development Heiner Janus and Michael Roll argue that the largest aid contraction on record coincides with a reopened decades-old fault line: what “development” means, who it serves — and how the field can… 18 May 2026 Heiner Janus and Michael Roll 8297 Kelsen, Lost in Translation? https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/18/05/2026/kelsen-lost-translation The standard story is Kelsen the naïve jurist, attacked by the political realists. Robert Schuett argues that Berkeley tells a more interesting tale. When Hans Kelsen arrived at the University of… 18 May 2026 8288 A Decade of The HDP Nexus: Lessons Learned and The Way Forward https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/17/05/2026/decade-hdp-nexus-lessons-learned-and-way-forward This is a chapter in a forthcoming e-book, entitled 'The Triple Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus: In Context and Everyday Perspective', edited by Marina Ferrero Baselga and Rodrigo Mena.… 17 May 2026 Esraa Ezzeldin 8296