Top Risks 2025
Ian Bremmer and Cliff Kupchan
The report presents Eurasia Group’s annual forecast of the political risks that are most likely to emerge in 2025.
Polycrisis Resource Library
The Polycrisis Resource Library is a growing collection of media that help to understand polycrisis, develop strategies to address polycrisis, and build a field of polycrisis analysis.
Chartbook 343 : Polycrisis & the Critique of Capitalocentrism
Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze explores the concept of polycrisis as a framework for understanding the complex and interconnected challenges we face in the modern era. He critiques the reliance on traditional social…
Ten Issues to Watch in 2025
Étienne Bassot
In its ninth edition, the European Parliamentary Research Service examines ten key issues likely to shape public debate and policy in the European Union throughout 2025. The issues analyzed include…
Tourism in the Polycrisis: a Horizon 2050 Paper
Stefan Gössling and Daniel Scott
This paper delves into the urgent need for the tourism sector to better understand and plan for the complex and interconnected global risks—collectively referred to as a polycrisis—that threaten its…
Ways Out of the Polycrisis
Jürgen Scheffran
In this article, Jürgen Scheffran explores the escalating global polycrisis arguing that current governance systems are failing to prevent catastrophic tipping points in the Earth system. He emphasizes the urgency…
Collaborative Problem-Solving for the ‘Polycrisis’
James Juniper
James Juniper examines how advances in applied category theory can support collaborative problem-solving in the context of Polycrisis. He highlights the potential of diagrammatic reasoning, particularly through tools like optics…
How Local Organizations Build Dynamic Decision-Making Capacities During a Global Polycrisis
Tjorven Harmsen, Ina Hennen and Marie Kaltenbach
The authors examine how decision-making evolves against the background of the transgressing and overlapping nature of today’s crisis phenomena, using crisis management and dynamic decision-making approaches.
Chartbook 330: Africa & Absolute Poverty in an Era of Polycrisis.
Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze examines the stagnation in global poverty reduction, emphasizing the challenges of a polycrisis context. He highlights that, after significant declines, progress in reducing absolute poverty has stalled, particularly…
Navigating the Polycrisis: MENA at a Crucial Crossroads
Ferid Belhaj
The author examines the concept of polycrisis, exploring how multiple crises in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), including the “energy dilemma,” water scarcity, climate-induced migration, and persistent conflicts…
Global Polycrisis can be Tackled by Institutional Innovation Towards Democratic Efficacy
Hanno Scholtz
Hanno Scholtz argues that the world’s polycrisis is caused by an outdated democratic model of “partitioning representation,” where citizens vote periodically and are represented by governments in global affairs. He…
About the Resource Library
The Polycrisis Resource Library includes resources that:
- Comment on the polycrisis as a concept and as a present global reality
- Undertake similar analysis using different—but related—concepts
- Analyze crisis interactions among multiple global systems
Though not exhaustive, the Library strives to present a diverse representation of views on different aspects of the polycrisis discussion, and will be updated as that discussion evolves. Search for resources with the keyword search bar, or by using the drop-down menus to filter for type of resource, global systems addressed, and key themes.