AI should enhance rather than replace human effort, judgment, and meaningful work. Excessive reliance on AI risks weakening critical thinking, eroding trust, reducing dignity through job displacement, and increasing social isolation. Its development therefore requires regulation and practical wisdom to ensure technology serves the common good rather than efficiency and profit alone.

Global governance is facing a “forever crisis” because complex problems (conflict, climate change, cyber threats, and AI) are still being managed with outdated, centralized tools designed for simpler problems. The text critiques three recurring approaches: crisis-and-fix, reliance on scientific consensus alone, and the “Leviathan” idea of creating one powerful global authority. Instead, it argues for governance modeled on complex systems: distributed, adaptive, responsive, and capable of constant feedback. The concept of a “planetary nervous system” captures this approach, sharing information quickly enough for institutions and societies to detect and respond to shocks before they cascade.

South Korea is shifting from restricting information about North Korea to allowing greater public access to it. The government has ended several anti-North Korean broadcasts while opening access to state media such as Rodong Sinmun and Korean Central Television. The key concern is that this is not independent journalism, but North Korean state propaganda, raising questions about where Seoul’s information policy is heading.

This policy brief examines the recent United Nations resolution supporting the International Court of Justice opinion on climate change. It explains how these developments establish a new global standard for state responsibility, moving climate action from a voluntary goal to a core legal duty. The brief offers practical recommendations for governments to strengthen their climate policies, protect human rights, and improve data transparency.

Africa's jobless generation is the most predictable crisis of this century. An anatomy in four parts: the bomb, the blast radius, the misdiagnosis, and the narrow path out.

The 2026 World Cup demonstrates how cultural exchange, social media, tourism, and people-to-people interactions can shape global perceptions and strengthen national influence. The tournament also highlights the limits of economic power alone, as countries such as China can invest heavily in the event without gaining the same cultural influence that comes from having athletes, fans, and stories that capture global attention.

The paper explores the growing pressures on the global energy system, including rising electricity demand, geopolitical instability, and disruptions to traditional fossil-fuel supply chains. Against this backdrop, nuclear energy has emerged as a promising source of reliable, low-carbon electricity, supported by advances in reactor technology and renewed investment from governments and corporations.

This paper examines the parallels between Donald Trump’s second-term foreign policy and Richard Nixon’s, focusing on executive power, foreign-policy adventurism, and the political support underpinning both administrations. It considers how Trump’s foreign policy may affect the United States’ global role and reputation through 2028, and argues that its domestic political consequences could shape the 2028 presidential election and contribute to a renewed emphasis on multilateralism.

“We cannot imagine living without the ocean. Everything is ocean-related in our lives,” says Moetai Brotherson, President of French Polynesia, a big ocean state.

While Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has experienced significant gains in digital infrastructure and access over the past decade, persistent gaps in speed, affordability, and infrastructure quality continue to undermine the region's potential (Castellanos, 2023).

June 9 (UPI) -- South Korea held its ninth nationwide local elections Wednesday. By early afternoon, something unprecedented had occurred.

Satellite technologies and applications have been evolving rapidly over the past two decades.

The United States and European Union are uniquely positioned to lead the global governance of artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity.

I perched on a heating unit at the rear of an overfilled auditorium. My fingers were stiff and my ears stung from the cold outside. I looked around. For the twelfth time, current and former heads of state, ambassadors, foreign ministers, academics, artists, and financiers had arrived with hundreds of students to discuss rearmament, nuclear risk, diplomacy and technology at the Harvard European Conference. 

This paper argues that closing Latin America’s social inequality gap requires equipping community-scale productive sectors with affordable, context-appropriate technology that amplifies existing capabilities rather than replacing them. It examines the structural role of informality, the principles of effective community-centered technology design, and concludes with policy recommendations for governments, regional institutions, and international partners.

A century ago the West fumbled a geopolitical standoff for Eastern Europe and threw its ally under the bus. Can we learn something from it this time?

Over the past two decades, when facing international crises, American policymakers have increasingly come to rely on sanctions as their foreign policy measure of first resort. At first glance, this choice is reasonable.

This research analyzes the effects of the implementation of educational technology (EdTech) on Latin American competitiveness from a qualitative approach. A literature review is conducted along three axes: the strengthening of human capital; innovation and economic dynamism; and the improvement of employability. The theoretical framework explains the strengthening of human capital through three variables: educational accessibility, educational quality, and skills development. The findings show that EdTech contributes to regional competitiveness by fostering technical/digital, cognitive, and soft skills aligned with the demands of a technological labor market. However, structural challenges such as limited technological infrastructure, socioeconomic inequality, and insufficient innovation-oriented policies persist. Addressing these barriers requires coordinated efforts among governments, the private sector, and educational institutions to promote inclusive digitalization and strengthen human capital across the region.

Nigeria continues to grapple with a multidimensional security crisis that impacts all regions of the country. While the natures of the threats have evolved, their intensity and geographic spread have increased over the past decade, overwhelming state capacity and eroding public trust. Over the past decade, the actors, tactics, motivations, and strategies have all evolved. Yet one constant remains: the Nigerian government’s persistent inability, or unwillingness, to respond effectively and systematically to improve its security issues. 

The ICJ’s historic climate opinion affirms the duty to protect intergenerational equity, yet young generations remain sidelined from the world’s premier climate science institution. Nomination quotas and a dedicated inclusion policy can fill this gap and make the IPCC a truly intergenerational enterprise.

This paper aims to provide a brief overview of how the European Union, and the United States (aim to) address the same kind of challenges, both in their own way.

A population disenfranchised from civic and political engagement leaves little to be felt of national belonging. For many Syrians, this has been a defining reality for more than a decade. Sixty years of an oppressive dictatorship followed by fourteen years of a protracted, proxy conflict hollowed out civic space and eliminated opportunity for safe and democratic political participation, silencing many by fear and livelihood pressures. But events of December 2024 marked a turning point for the fate of the nation.

Global public debt surpassed $108 trillion in 2024, with developing countries carrying over $31 trillion, and facing debt-servicing costs that now exceed their health and education budgets. The status quo is clear: debt will not be erased, and many countries will not be able to repay it under current conditions. To move beyond this reality, innovative solutions must be deployed outside existing mechanisms. The Social Solidarity Currency is one possible innovation to address this issue. The Social Solidarity Currency is a personal proposal developed by the author and does not reflect the views or official positions of the UN Special Envoy on Financing for Development, the United Nations, or any affiliated institution.

“Every time, as a small state, we come to the United Nations, we never look at ourselves in the context of 238 square miles and 185,000 people. We believe that today we are conducting our struggles on the battlefields of ideas and so we attempt to enter the global conversation.”, says Saint Lucian Foreign Minister Alva Baptiste during our Columbia University interview at the sidelines of this year’s UN General Assembly in New York. This article contributes to this idea and narrative landscape by introducing the new narrative for a changed global order for states that are today mainly being referred to as small ocean states.