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Status Politics: The Changing Meanings and Practices of South Korea's Middle Power Diplomacy 身份政治：韩国中等大国外交的意义变迁与实践

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Global Policy Pub Date : 2026-03-24 Epub Date: 2026-02-02 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70133

Yong Wook Lee

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Toxic Lead Pigment Exports From Rich to Poor Countries 有毒铅颜料从富国出口到穷国

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Global Policy Pub Date : 2026-01-13 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70122

Rory Todd, Lee Crawfurd, Rachel Bonnifield

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Should Green Industrial Policy Be Technology Neutral? 绿色产业政策应该是技术中立的吗？

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2026-01-13 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70124

Emma Aisbett, Wenting Cheng, Ralf Steinhauser, Fiona Beck

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Can the United Nations Avoid the Fate of the League of Nations? 联合国能否避免国际联盟的命运？

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-12-23 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70114

Kristinn Sv. Helgason

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Terrorism and U.S. and Chinese Overseas Foreign Direct Investment in the Developing World 恐怖主义与美国和中国在发展中国家的海外直接投资

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-12-14 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70113

Kelan (Lilly) Lu, Glen Biglaiser, Lance Y. Hunter

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Contemporary Challenges and Relevance of the Transboundary River Management Regimes in South Asia 南亚跨界河流管理制度的当代挑战和相关性

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-12-14 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70110

Rahul M. Lad, Ravindra G. Jaybhaye

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Private Network Realignment: State Strategies Versus Market-Driven Globalization in the Subsea Cable Network 私有网络重组：国家战略与市场驱动的海底电缆网络全球化

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-12-14 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70118

Joscha Abels

{"title":"Private Network Realignment: State Strategies Versus Market-Driven Globalization in the Subsea Cable Network","authors":"Joscha Abels","doi":"10.1111/1758-5899.70118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.70118","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Much of the subsea cable network, which carries the vast majority of global internet traffic, is developed, owned, and operated by private corporations. In an era of growing global tensions, states have come to view these cables as critical to their interests. The article addresses the disconnect between statecraft-centric explanations and the market-driven development of global networks. It introduces the concept of private network realignment: Political interventions aimed at retroactively reshaping infrastructures and adjacent markets by influencing the decisions of private corporations. After decades of neoliberal globalization, networks are often organized around large corporations that drive their development. In reaction, states employ varied realignment strategies, the choice of which depends on their position in the network as well as that of relevant corporate actors. Empirically, the article examines two instructive, prototypical cases: the US–China conflict over the SeaMeWe-6 subsea cable system, and France's nationalization of Alcatel Submarine Networks. The findings highlight the uneven effectiveness of great power interventions, which opens up space for other highly connected powers to pursue autonomous network realignment strategies. The article contributes to contemporary debates on network competition, providing a perspective on how market dynamics and state strategizing intersect in the development of global networks.</p>","PeriodicalId":51510,"journal":{"name":"Global Policy","volume":"17 1","pages":"94-106"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1758-5899.70118","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146256406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Active Yet Cautious: How Middle States Navigate Status in the Universal Periodic Review 积极而谨慎：中间国家如何在普遍定期审议中定位

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-12-10 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70121

Chun-Young Park

{"title":"Active Yet Cautious: How Middle States Navigate Status in the Universal Periodic Review","authors":"Chun-Young Park","doi":"10.1111/1758-5899.70121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.70121","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how states positioned in the middle of the international status hierarchy behave in the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR). While the UPR was established as a cooperative mechanism to move away from confrontational naming and shaming, in practice it has become a reputational arena where states strategically calibrate their engagement. I argue that mid-status states pursue a logic of status–visibility optimization: They maximize participation to enhance recognition but issue only moderate recommendations to minimize reputational risks. Using original data of UPR recommendations and statistical analyses, the study finds that mid-status states are the most active participants but the least severe critics. This pattern produces what is called “vanilla victories,” which is visible but cautious performance that enhances the state's standing without significantly advancing human rights. These findings contribute to debates on status-seeking and international human rights institutions and highlight the limitations of the UPR as a mechanism for substantive rights protection.</p>","PeriodicalId":51510,"journal":{"name":"Global Policy","volume":"17 1","pages":"58-70"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1758-5899.70121","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146256267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Foreign Aid at a Crossroads: How Funding Cuts Reshape Global Development Cooperation 十字路口的外援：资金削减如何重塑全球发展合作

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-12-10 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70116

Steffi Hamann

{"title":"Foreign Aid at a Crossroads: How Funding Cuts Reshape Global Development Cooperation","authors":"Steffi Hamann","doi":"10.1111/1758-5899.70116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.70116","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent aid budget reductions among major donor countries have reignited debates over the future of international development cooperation, with several commentators warning of an impending collapse of the aid sector. Engaging with historical and critical development literature on aid cycles, donor motives, and the evolution of Official Development Assistance, this paper addresses the question: Do these drastic funding cuts signal the demise of the international aid system? Through a historical-comparative analysis of past periods of aid expansion and retrenchment, it argues that while current disruptions are profound, they represent not an end but a driver for transformation within the aid sector. The paper shows that foreign aid has consistently adapted to geopolitical shifts, alternating between enthusiasm and disillusionment, and that today's crisis is catalyzing structural changes, including the restructuring of aid agencies, a diversification of financing sources beyond traditional donors, and emerging localized and specialized implementation strategies. These findings challenge the alarmist narratives by situating recent events within a historical pattern of adaptation, emphasizing that rather than heralding aid's demise, the present moment is spurring a new phase of evolution in the global aid landscape.</p>","PeriodicalId":51510,"journal":{"name":"Global Policy","volume":"17 1","pages":"122-133"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1758-5899.70116","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146256268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Development Lending and Debt Discipline: The Political Economy of External Finance in Brazil 开发贷款与债务纪律：巴西外部金融的政治经济学

IF 1.8 3区社会学

Global Policy Pub Date : 2025-11-25 DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70112

Benjamin Vidmar, Felipe Krause

{"title":"Development Lending and Debt Discipline: The Political Economy of External Finance in Brazil","authors":"Benjamin Vidmar, Felipe Krause","doi":"10.1111/1758-5899.70112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.70112","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines Brazil's External Financing Commission (COFIEX), a centralized body that approves all public-sector external borrowing and exemplifies efforts in middle-income democracies to reconcile fiscal restraint with the demands of strategic public investment. Drawing on original analysis of project-level data from 1980 to 2022, the study shows that COFIEX has successfully enforced Brazil's conservative stance on external debt, maintaining public external debt below 10% of GDP through most of the past two decades. However, its capacity to act as a driver of development finance has been constrained by institutional risk aversion, rigid fiscal thresholds, and political incentives favoring highly visible infrastructure over less politically rewarding sectors such as sanitation. Despite these limitations, the article highlights COFIEX's important role in structuring Brazil's relationships with bilateral and multilateral lenders, whose technical expertise reduces project risk and can help crowd in private investment. The Brazilian experience underscores the trade-offs inherent in centralized debt governance under fiscal orthodoxy, illustrating how institutions like COFIEX prioritize fiscal stability even when developmental needs remain unmet. The article contributes to broader debates on global development finance, showing how institutional design and bureaucratic practice mediate the relationship between fiscal discipline and external investment in federal middle-income democracies.</p>","PeriodicalId":51510,"journal":{"name":"Global Policy","volume":"17 1","pages":"134-144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1758-5899.70112","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146256556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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