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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Immigration, War, Economic Collapse: Will the Global Order Change in 2026?
This article presents Fair Observers's 2026 geopolitical outlook using a Social, Political, Economic, Religious, and Military framework. The authors argue that overlapping global stresses, immigration pressures, democratic dysfunction, economic fragility, and strategic rivalry, are accelerating ...
We Are Living in a Time of Polycrisis. If You Feel Trapped – You’re Not Alone
The author explores the psychological toll of living through a polycrisis, characterised by the convergence of multiple, compounding global threats. Drawing on insights from psychologists and anthropologists, the article examines how radical uncertainty erodes individuals’ ...
Undemocratic States, Accelerated Disaster: Can We Reverse the Economic Incentives that Are Killing the Planet?
The author explores how authoritarianism, imperialism, and global capitalism converge to deepen the planetary polycrisis, accelerating ecological breakdown and democratic erosion. Arguing that prevailing economic incentives favour perpetual war and environmental destruction, Fernandes asserts that ...
Global Risks Report 2026: Geopolitical and Economic Risks Rise in New Age of Competition
The Global Risks Report 2026 explores how a new competitive world order is reshaping global risks across domains. Over the next two years, geoeconomic confrontation is identified as the most severe risk, with economic and societal instability ...
‘History will tell’: as US pressure grows, Cuba edges closer to collapse amid mass exodus
The author examines Cuba’s ongoing polycrisis, characterized by the convergence of economic collapse, demographic decline, social fragmentation, and political repression. Mass emigration is accelerating population loss and weakening public institutions, while economic contraction across nearly ...
Top Risks 2026
The report presents Eurasia Group's annual forecast of the political risks most likely to play out over the course of 2026. It outlines ten key global developments expected to shape the geopolitical landscape, including state-level ...
Welcome to the Age of Chaos
In this analysis, Foreign Policy presents its annual foresight of the top global risks for 2026. Drawing on the authors' forecasting experience at the National Intelligence Council, the report outlines ten interconnected threats, including economic ...
A polycrisis has shattered our world this year. But with care, we can put it back together
The author reflects on 2025 as the year plagued by social, economic, environmental, technological and institutional challenges, a period of polycrisis that created overwhelming pressure and global instability. She describes how democratic norms have declined, ...
Big AI is accelerating the metacrisis: What can we do?
The author argues that large-scale corporate artificial intelligence, or “Big AI,” is accelerating a converging set of ecological, cultural, and linguistic crises that together constitute a global metacrisis. Focusing on large language models, the article ...
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Global Risks Report 2026: Geopolitical and Economic Risks Rise in New Age of Competition
The Global Risks Report 2026 explores how a new competitive world order is reshaping global risks across domains. Over the next two years, geoeconomic confrontation is identified as the most severe risk, with economic and societal instability ...
‘History will tell’: as US pressure grows, Cuba edges closer to collapse amid mass exodus
The author examines Cuba’s ongoing polycrisis, characterized by the convergence of economic collapse, demographic decline, social fragmentation, and political repression. Mass emigration is accelerating population loss and weakening public institutions, while economic contraction across nearly ...
Top Risks 2026
The report presents Eurasia Group's annual forecast of the political risks most likely to play out over the course of 2026. It outlines ten key global developments expected to shape the geopolitical landscape, including state-level ...
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