The End of Easy Globalisation
Ninety One
This report provides an outlook of the current global context, arguing that the period of easy globalisation is over and that the 2020s constitute a fourth systemic crisis — a…
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.
Fractured Reality
Mario Scharfbillig, Stephan Lewandowsky, Sacha Altay, Marshall Van Alstyne, Anastasia Kozyreva, Ralph Hertwig, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Renee DiResta, Sebastian Valenzuela, Stefanie Egidy, Walter Quattrociocchi and Amy Orben
This report examines the evolving impact of digital technologies on European democracy, arguing that platforms algorithmically privilege negative and conflictual content, fragmenting shared reality into what the authors term a…
Digital Resilience Within a Hypermediated Polycrisis
Marc Esteve del Valle, Ansgard Heinrich and Anabel Quan-Haase
This article explores digital resilience within a hypermediated polycrisis, arguing that overlapping crises are increasingly experienced through deeply interconnected digital environments that shape how people understand and respond to disruption….
Geopolitical Fractures 2026: Where the Next Crisis Already Lives
RAKSHA Intelligence Futures
The report maps structural fractures across the systems through which geopolitical power is actually exercised and tracks how they compound. It identifies four main fractures: a dollar system held together…
Beyond Survival: Sustaining Human Agency in Challenging Times – Graham Leicester
Graham Leicester, Oren Slozberg and Katherine Fulton
In this podcast, Katherine Fulton, Graham Leicester, and Commonweal’s executive director Oren Slozberg explore how individuals, communities, and institutions can cultivate a fully human response to the polycrisis. The conversation…
Beyond Climate: Sketching the Anatomy of our Polycrisis and Reflecting on Solutions
Jury Gualandris
This article argues that climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequity form an interconnected polycrisis driven by shared underlying causes and mutually reinforcing dynamics. It shows how environmental degradation and…
What to Do as The World Falls Apart: A Framework for Action
Nate Hagens
In this episode, Nate Hagens moves beyond diagnosis of the global polycrisis to propose a practical framework for action organised around six interdependent fronts: infrastructure and physical stock redesign, poverty…
Shock Absorbers or Amplifiers? How Do Firms Transmit Shocks in a Polycrisis Era?
Miaomiao Tao, Jianda Wang, Xiaohang Ren and Ruijun Bu
The authors explore how global oil prices and geopolitical tensions are reshaping the spread of financial risk among firms worldwide. Analyzing over 1,300 publicly listed companies in 55 countries between…
You Can’t Have a Revolution Without Revolution: Navigating Polycrisis and Political Change in Iran
Rachel Ainsworth
This article examines the war involving Iran through the lens of polycrisis and revolutionary theory, arguing that externally driven attempts at regime change risk deepening interconnected crises rather than producing…
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.
Sky-High Oil Prices. A Fertilizer Shortage. Now Add a “Super El Niño.”
Christopher Collins and Thomas Homer-Dixon
This article argues that the war involving Iran, particularly through the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has driven up oil and fertilizer prices, triggering supply shortages that threaten global…