Multiple global crises are worsening one another to produce what many policymakers, scholars, and commentators call a “polycrisis.” This website is a hub that helps this emerging community better understand and address the intersecting crises affecting humanity.
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Ethics amid Crises
Anthony Langlois explores the ethical dimensions of navigating contemporary global challenges like climate emergencies, digital transformation, and sustainability. The author argues that there are a lack of normative considerations in polycrisis analysis, emphasizing the need ...
The (de)globalization of migration: Has the polycrisis period changed the patterns of global migration?
The authors explore whether migration really becoming more globalized (i.e. more heterogenous), or if there is evidence for recent (de)globalization trends, often attributed to flows of goods and capital.
Stress Testing in a World of Compound Risks and Polycrises
The authors explore how to approach stress testing and stress scenario design in a world of polycrises and compound risks. The authors advocate for adopting "polyscenario" approaches that use multiple, interdisciplinary scenarios to capture the ...
Why Integrated Assessment Models Alone are Insufficient to Navigate us through the Polycrisis
The authors discuss how Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) have limited capacity to navigate complex, interconnected global crises. They advocate for the integration of transdisciplinary approaches, including socio-technical transitions and diverse stakeholder perspectives, to chart sustainable ...
After Neoliberalism: Economic Theory and Policy in the Polycrisis
This article offers an ‘institutionally pluralist’ view proposing different kinds of institutions for five different spheres of economic life. It argues that economic policy should be seen as a process of institutional design and offers ...
AXA Future Risks Report 2024
The Future Risks Report explores the emerging risks we may face in the future. The report highlights the growing complexity of managing risks, making decisions, and tackling challenges in a world marked by rapid technological ...
Young Adults from Disadvantaged Groups Experience More Stress and Deterioration in Mental Health Associated with Polycrisis
This paper presents exploratory findings concerning the susceptibility of young adults to the impact of stress and increased risk on experiencing poorer mental health when confronted by the ongoing polycrisis.
Our Polycrisis Demands a Radically New Approach to Risk Management
Ruth Richardson discusses how current tools and strategies are not designed to assess the types of systemic risks that we currently face. The author calls on policymakers to drive a transformative shift in systemic risks ...
Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises
The book presents a collection of papers from two 2020 seminars held at Princeton University and at the Berlin Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Science. The first seminar addressed a range ...
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A Logic for the Future: International Relations in the Age of Turbulence
Stephen Heintz explores the origins and development of the logic that shapes today's international relations system, proposing a revised approach for the future. He applies this new logic to the current global political landscape and ...
The ‘Polycrisis’ and Global Development Finance: Options and Dilemmas
Cameron Hill discusses a "range of proposals to reform the international development finance architecture in ways that might alleviate some of the worst effects of the multiple global shocks for low- and middle-income countries. This ...
What is a Global Polycrisis? And how is it Different from a Systemic Risk?
This discussion paper proposes that "A global polycrisis occurs when crises in multiple systems become causally entangled in ways that significantly reduce humanity's prospects. These interacting crises produce harms greater than the sum of those ...
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This map charts the emerging community of scholars and practitioners working on polycrisis and closely related topics.