Global Policy Journal - Articles

From the State to the Market and Back. Policy Implications of Changing Energy Paradigms

Andreas Goldthau — Wed 23 May 2012

Like almost no other sector, energy reflects changing paradigms. Following a statist approach in which energy services were subject to public provision and administered by state companies, the free ma...Read more

Synergies between Energy Efficiency and Energy Access Policies and Strategies

Shonali Pachauri, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz and Michael LaBelle — Wed 23 May 2012

Policies to improve energy access and energy efficiency are often discussed, designed and assessed in isolation from each other. In this paper, we highlight possible synergies in these two domains of ...Read more

Introduction: Policy Agendas for the Future of Global Energy

Andreas Goldthau — Wed 23 May 2012

Since energy has made it to the top of policy agendas, it has become subject to fierce debates between ‘marketers’ and ‘securitizers’. Market proponents tend to argue that ener...Read more

Global Inequality: From Class to Location, from Proletarians to Migrants

Branko Milanovic — Wed 23 May 2012

Inequality between world citizens in the mid-19th century was such that at least a half of it could be explained by income differences between workers and capital owners in individual countries. Real ...Read more

Assessing the Evolving Threat of Terrorism

Khusrav Gaibolloev, Todd Sandler and Charlinda Santifort — Wed 23 May 2012

The ‘war on terror’ has focused exclusively on transnational terrorism since the hijackings of 9/11. Based on almost 40 years of data, this article shows that domestic terrorism poses a mu...Read more

Global Governance and Integrative Balancing: The EU efforts to Respond to the Global Challenge

Attila Agh — Wed 23 May 2012

In the early 21st century globalisation has radically transformed the whole world. In the rapidly globalising world the main issue for the EU is globalisation-cum-regionalisation, namely to increase p...Read more

Rebalancing the Global Economy

Stefan Collignon — Wed 23 May 2012

Imbalances are a dominant feature of the world economy and they are often seen as having contributed to the global financial crisis. A revaluation of the Chinese currency is often recommended to reduc...Read more

Gridlock and Innovation in Global Governance: The Partial Transnational Solution

Thomas Hale and David Held — Wed 23 May 2012

The political institutions that manage transborder problems are changing, offering new avenues around the inadequacies of the existing multilateral order. Several trends in global politics – for...Read more

Early View Article - Mitigating Inequalities of Influence among States in Global Decision Making

Steven J. Hoffman — Thu 3 May 2012

International institutions should be as equal as they claim to be, especially since many of them assert superordinate normative authority based on having egalitarian governance structures. However, wh...Read more

Early View Article - Establishing a new Global Economic Council: governance reform at the G20, the IMF and the World Bank

Jakob Vestergaard and Robert H. Wade — Thu 3 May 2012

The literature on international network governance commonly presumes an ‘effectiveness-legitimacy dilemma’: gains in effectiveness at problem solving, perhaps via smaller size, come at cos...Read more