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Global Challenges
Issue no. 7 | April 2020
Global Governance in Peril?
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Global Challenges
Issue no. 7 | April 2020
Global Governance in Peril?

The present Dossier takes stock of the current state of the multilateral system and its future prospects. It aims to explore to what extent global governance is in crisis as the global geopolitical order is undergoing fundamental shifts and liberal universalism is losing traction. It assesses potential of reform in extant institutions as well as emerging trends, tools and forums that are reshaping multilateral practice on a daily basis.
Note – The dossier was drafted before the Covid-19 world crisis.

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    Multilateralism Is in Crisis – Or Is It?

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    By Dominic Eggel, Research Adviser at the Research Office
    Marc Galvin, Executive Director of Research
    The Graduate Institute, Geneva

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    The Role of Transnational Policy Networks in Contemporary Global Governance

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    By Thomas Biersteker
    Professor of International Relations/Political Science
    Curt Gasteyger Chair in International Security and Conflict Studies
    The Graduate Institute, Geneva

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    United Nations stamp showing Palais des Nations, Geneva.

    The United Nations at 75: Still “Resolved to Combine Our Efforts”?

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    By Cecilia Cannon
    Researcher at the Global Governance Centre
    The Graduate Institute, Geneva
    Academic Adviser to the United Nations for its UN75 dialogues on global cooperation

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    Anti-G8 activists hold globes reading, “Hello G20? This is the rest of the world” as they take part in a demonstration in Le Havre, France, on 21 May 2011.

    What Future Role for the Gs in the Multilateral System?

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    By Cédric Dupont
    President of Executive Education
    Professor of International Relations/Political Science
    The Graduate Institute, Geneva

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    Mural by Dean Cornwell (1892–1960) in the Centre William Rappard, former home of the International Labour Office and current home of the World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

    US Pressure on the WTO: A Chance to Rebound?

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    By Joost Pauwelyn
    Professor of International Law
    Co-director of the Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
    The Graduate Institute, Geneva

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    Beyond Multilateralism: The Pauli Principle

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    By David Sylvan
    Professor of International Relations/Political Science
    Director of Research
    The Graduate Institute, Geneva

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    Global Internet Governance: Is Fragmentation Avoidable?

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    By Roxana Radu
    Research Associate at the Global Governance Centre
    The Graduate Institute, Geneva

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    Governing the World outside the United Nations

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    Deval Desai
    Postdoctoral Researcher at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy of the Graduate Institute

    Amelia Evans
    Executive Director of MSI Integrity

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Urban Morphology & Violence
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Forthcoming Special Issue | March 2023
Urban Morphology & Violence

The essays in this volume are the product of a new 'research practicum' course in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. They build on the debates on 'Urban Morphology and violence' to reflect on the associations between cities - their political orders and disorders - and outcomes ranging from occupation and resistance to marginalisation and containment. These texts foreshadow the possibility of centring - and challenging - the urban in our understanding of contemporary conflict, violence and peace. They are a first step in opening up a research agenda for a more textured analysis of spatial, geographical and temporal dynamics within the city in relation to violence, and, therefore, the mobilisation of spatial, temporal and visual modes of analysis. The promise is to make visible the varied roles of urban morphologies - adding to the debate on cities in and as sites of conflict.