Allianz Risk Barometer
Allianz
The Allianz Risk Barometer presents its top corporate risks for 2026. The report identifies cyber incidents as the top global business risk, followed by artificial intelligence (AI). Business interruption and…
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.
Big AI is accelerating the metacrisis: What can we do?
Steven Bird
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…
2025’s Global Health Polycrisis: Climate, Contagion and the Limits of our Defences
Chandan Prakash
This article explores how 2025 marked a defining year for global public health, shaped by a polycrisis of resurgent infectious diseases, climate-driven emergencies, antimicrobial resistance, and an escalating mental health…
Collective Action in the Age of Polycrisis
Gilberto Seravalli
In this book, Gilberto Seravalli examines the challenges of fostering collective action amid widespread political, economic, and institutional instability. Framed by the concept of polycrisis, the analysis explores the structural…
More Than a Buzzword? Mapping Interpretations of the ‘Polycrisis’
Louis Delannoy, Jean-Charles Leveugle, Sofia Maniatakou and Peter Søgaard Jørgensen
This article critically examines the concept of polycrisis, tracing its evolution from rhetorical buzzword to an emerging analytical lens in sustainability and crisis research. Based on a Q-methodology study involving…
All Crises are Unhappy in Their Own Way: The Role of Societal Instability in Shaping the Past
Daniel Hoyer, Samantha Holder, James S. Bennett, Pieter Francois, Harvey Whitehouse, R. Alan Covey, Gary Feinman, Andrey Korotayev, Vadim Ustyuzhanin, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Kathryn Bard, Jill Levine, Jenny Reddish, Georg Orlandi, Rachel Ainsworth and Peter Turchin.
This article introduces the Crisis Database, a comprehensive resource that systematically documents 168 historical societal crises across different time periods, regions, and levels of complexity. Aiming to overcome small-sample bias…
Systemic Risk: Opportunities for Inter- and Transdisciplinary Science to Improve Societal Resilience
Jana Sillmann, Alessio Ciullo, Christian L.E. Franzke and Jürgen Scheffran
This article introduces a focus collection on systemic risk science, arguing that systemic risks, are increasingly amplified by global warming yet remain poorly understood. It summarizes six contributing papers that…
Global Risk Forecast 2026
Crisis24
The Crisis24 Global Risk Forecast 2026 provides a strategic outlook on the evolving risk landscape heading into 2026. It identifies a global environment marked by intensifying geopolitical competition, persistent economic…
Examining the Three Existential Threats of the 21st Century: Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, and Nuclear Weapons
Hassan Fattahi and Zahra Mohebi-Pourkani
The authors critically examine three existential threats facing humanity in the 21st century: advanced artificial intelligence, escalating climate change, and nuclear weapons. Drawing on scientific consensus and growing institutional concern,…
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.
The World Order After 2025
Yuen Yuen Ang
In this article, Yuen Yuen Ang argues that 2025 marks not just the end of the postwar global order but the emergence of a new one. She examines the collapse…