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Flattening the Curve on Societal Crisis: Lessons from History

The authors argue that today’s polycrisis, marked by climate change, inequality, and institutional fragility, echoes recurrent structural challenges seen throughout history. While most historical crises led to violence and collapse, a small number were successfully averted through transformative reforms. Drawing on these rare cases, the authors outline three critical policy lessons: reverse rising inequality to […]

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America’s Polycrisis Has Arrived

The author argues that the United States is experiencing a polycrisis, a convergence of simultaneous, mutually reinforcing crises spanning foreign policy, the rule of law, civil rights, constitutional governance, the environment, healthcare, the military, and the economy. The author maintains that this multi-crisis dynamic leaves the U.S. vulnerable to extreme hardship and governmental collapse, and

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What the Global Risks Report 2026 Really Says About the Urgency of Environmental Threats

This article highlights how environmental risks remain among the most severe global threats in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2026, yet their perceived urgency has shifted across time horizons. While short-term concerns are increasingly dominated by geopolitical fragmentation and misinformation, this shift does not reflect an easing of environmental threats, which are now

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Peace Studies and International Relations in an Age of Polycrisis

The author contends that the 2026 Doomsday Clock setting reflects a polycrisis. Arguing that traditional frameworks in International Relations are inadequate for addressing the political, ethical, and structural dimensions of this moment, the article calls for re-centering peace as a foundational concern. Rather than viewing peace merely as the absence of conflict, the author draws

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Confronting Multiple Global Crises: A Political Economy Approach for the Twenty-first Century

This article develops a political economy framework to analyse multiple, overlapping global crises, including crises of capitalism, labour, gender, race, and ecology. Drawing on the philosophy of internal relations and a historical materialist approach, the author argues that these crises are not separate but internally related, arising from the structural dynamics of capitalist accumulation, which

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Towards One Health Action for Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance in the Age of Polycrisis

The authors argue that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a major One Health issue, driven by a range of accelerators, including emerging climate and social challenges. In the context of a worsening polycrisis, they call for an ecosystem-centered governance agenda based on four pillars: identifying local environmental drivers, mapping transmission pathways, reducing AMR stability and selection

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How can Crisis-affected Countries Survive in the ‘New World Disorder’?

In this presentation, David Miliband, President of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), highlights recommendations from the IRC’s 2026 Emergency Watchlist. He notes that near 240 million people are in humanitarian need, most concentrated in just 20 countries, and warns that today’s crises are increasingly internationalized, prolonged, and fueled by climate stress, conflict economies, and diplomatic

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Illuminating Limits: Educating for Postgrowth Futures in a Time of Polycrisis

The authors examine how environmental education is being reconfigured in an era of polycrisis, urging a move beyond reductive, growth-driven and technocratic paradigms. They advocate for a postgrowth educational approach that embraces ecological overshoot, social unravelling, and the systemic limits of industrial modernity. Drawing on heuristics rooted in complexity science, disaster studies, land economics, and

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How Can We Build Prosperity within Planetary Boundaries?

This session from the 56th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum explores how to achieve prosperity within planetary boundaries amid accelerating climate and ecological crises. With a keynote by Johan Rockström and contributions from panelists André Hoffmann, Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Sumant Sinha, Ramon Laguarta, and Andrew Forrest, the discussion highlights that seven of nine

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