Opinion – Why the High Seas Treaty is a Landmark Moment for Global Environmental Governance
The High Seas Treaty has shown the power of international treaties to protect global commons and provides a blueprint to for other ecosystems.
Articles
Opinion – The US-China Tech Hegemony Contest: A Threat to the Neoliberal World Order
US-China rivalry is rooted in divergent political and economic ideologies, giving rise to a persisting struggle playing out on a global scale.
Opinion – The Paris Agreement a Decade after its Implementation
While the Paris Agreement is yet to go far enough in its outcomes it has still been the greatest force for progress yet seen in the global climate governance space.
Opinion – Colombia’s Transitional Justice System Sets Precedent for Accountability
In Colombia, where historically impunity has predominated, a precedent for demanding accountability from perpetrators of gross human rights violations has been established.
Opinion – How Could COP30 Put Climate Back at the Top of the Global Agenda?
COP30 provides an opportunity for the global and the local to come together and collaborate to form policies which combine local knowledge with international resources.
The Fetish of Force: Why Weapons Are Not Just “Instruments” of War
Resisting the fetish of force demands a scientific and political confrontation with the structures that sustain and normalize organized violence.
Indigenous Cosmographies: The Narratives of the Kukama Kukamiria of Peru
The decolonial inflection is an intellectual current defined around a series of problems derived from colonialism and modernity, based on the intellectual and political experiences and trajectories of Latin America.
Opinion – The Best Attribute of the Nobel Peace Prize Is Its Power to Provoke
Perhaps the greatest benefit of the ritual is to invite humanity to reflect on the vicissitudes of war and peace, even if our models to understand this vexing phenomenon are often wrong.
The Global War on Drugs as Authoritarian Statecraft and Its Human Rights Costs
Prohibition’s coercive approach enables authoritarian statecraft, consequently undermining democratic governance that is necessary for human rights.
Tunisia at a Crossroads: The Arab Spring’s Lone Flame, Fifteen Years On
Tunisia shows that revolutions do not always collapse immediately into dictatorship or war – they can stumble, backslide, and persist in twilight.