Top 10 2025 Global Disaster Risks
Andrew Busch
Andrew Busch examines the top global disaster risks for 2025, highlighting their interconnected nature, the compounding effects they may have, and potential strategies for effective risk management.
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.
The polycrisis is here, and system dynamics can help: a call to action
Vinicius Picanço Rodrigues, Michael Lawrence and Scott Janzwood
The authors call for action from the System Dynamics (SD) community to address global polycrisis and leverage SD’s strengths in modelling complexity, feedback loops, and nonlinear dynamics. They emphasize five…
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.
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…
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…
Achieving Inter- and Transdisciplinarity in Ecohealth: Insights from a Rodent-Borne Disease Project in a Polycrisis Era
Isabelle Arpin, Clémence Massart, Vincent Bourret, Guillaume Castel, Valeria Carolina Colombo, Jana Eccard, Jasmin Firozpoor, Maciej Grzybek, Heikki A Henttonen, Herwig Leirs, Andrew McManus, Ben Roche, Tarja Sironen, Vincent Sluydts, Peter Stuart, Annetta Zintl and Nathalie Charbonnel
The authors explore the challenges of addressing “wicked problems,” such as emerging zoonotic diseases, and the potential of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research (ITDR) to tackle them. Using a case study…
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.