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Boon or Bane?: The Hybrid Institutional Complex for the Sustainable Development Goals 恩还是贝恩？：可持续发展目标的混合机构综合体

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70084

Jack Taggart, Benjamin Faude

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How Do Informal International Organizations Promote the Sustainable Development Goals Through Orchestration? 非正式国际组织如何通过协调促进可持续发展目标？

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70085

Dan Xu

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United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Hybrid Institutional Complexes as Hegemony-Building? 联合国2030年议程与可持续发展目标：混合型制度综合体是霸权建设吗？

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-07 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70048

Julija Loginovic, Stuart Shields

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Doing Things Right Versus Doing the Right Things? Ownership's Effect on the Sustainable Development Goals 做正确的事和做正确的事？所有权对可持续发展目标的影响

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70063

Bernhard Reinsberg

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Correction to “The Politics of Accountability in Global Sustainable Commodity Governance: Dilemmas of Institutional Competition and Convergence” 对“全球可持续商品治理中的问责政治：制度竞争与趋同的困境”的修正

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-04 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70069

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The New Technopolitics of War: (Re)imagining Agency and Authority in Military Affairs 战争的新技术政治：（重新）想象军事事务中的机构和权威

IF 2.2 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70045

Daniel Møller Ølgaard

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Cooperation Across International Organizations: Effects of Regime Complexity on the Quadripartite of One Health 跨国际组织的合作：制度复杂性对一个健康四方面的影响

IF 2.2 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70046

Katharina Lobermeyer

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Navigating the In-Between Space: The Roles of Chinese Think Tanks in Artificial Intelligence Governance 导航中间空间：中国智库在人工智能治理中的作用

IF 2.2 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70053

Qiaochu Zhang

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Startups Envisioning Algorithmic Warfare: The Discourses of US Tech Companies in Defense AI 初创公司设想算法战：美国科技公司在国防人工智能方面的言论

IF 2.2 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70047

Anna Nadibaidze

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An Evolutionary Perspective on the Implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 联合国可持续发展目标实施的进化视角

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70061

Matthieu Pitteloud, Lafi Aldakak, Frank Rühli, Nicole Bender

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