Member Articles

COVID-19 has highlighted the need to move toward more comprehensive and systemic thinking. A nexus approach that bridges sectoral divides is essential for how states and societies respond to emerging security threats.

Cooperation between the UN and the African Union (AU) in peace and security has improved markedly. Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the AU Hanna Tetteh describes what could facilitate greater collaboration.

For the Sustainable Development Goals to succeed, there must be an urgent move away from reactive defense-oriented mindsets when managing climate risk.

Despite shared democratic values, the G7 and its allies have different ideas on how best to approach data free flow with trust to ensure data transfers occur with robust security and privacy standards. The UK, Japan, and the EU can lead the way.

Multilateralism remains a crucial element of Germany’s foreign policy. Germany will increasingly use multilateralism as a tool of pressure on authoritarian regimes to respect human rights and international law.

The global COVID-19 pandemic has marked a turning point in business-as-usual practices, highlighting the need to re-think and re-establish economy-wide norms based on systemic sustainability and equity considerations.

This policy insight examines the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW, also known as the Ban Treaty) from an African perspective.

The World Trade Organization should fully realize the negotiated balance between exclusivity and access in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement).

Soft law is increasingly being used by policymakers to enable greater cooperation and inclusivity, and it is here to stay in creating effective regimes.

Primary findings in this report indicate that mechanisms and institutions to support the meaningful inclusion of a broader set of state and non-state actors are crucial to increasing the effectiveness and legitimacy of the multilateral system.