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Geopolitical Fractures 2026: Where the Next Crisis Already Lives

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 by lock-in rather than trust; an insurance void where coverage masks a widening gap between premiums collected and losses actually paid; a physical infrastructure substrate […]

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Beyond Survival: Sustaining Human Agency in Challenging Times – Graham Leicester

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 reflects on why framing the polycrisis in abstract or intellectual terms tends to produce resignation rather than agency, and argues instead for approaching it as

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Beyond Climate: Sketching the Anatomy of our Polycrisis and Reflecting on Solutions

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 social inequity interact across systems, with high-income populations contributing disproportionately to these crises while experiencing fewer of their impacts. The article emphasizes that addressing this

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Is Polycrisis a Global Phenomenon? Perspectives from Comparative Politics

This debate article examines whether polycrisis constitutes a genuinely global phenomenon by bringing together comparative political science perspectives on Africa, Latin America, East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Global North. Through regional analyses, the authors find that the polycrisis narrative is a Global North construct, while many regions of the

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You Can’t Have a Revolution Without Revolution: Navigating Polycrisis and Political Change in Iran

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 meaningful political transformation. The article situates the conflict within a broader regional and global polycrisis, highlighting how war, energy disruptions, food insecurity, economic instability, displacement,

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Both Adaptive and Transformative Capacities are Necessary to Navigate Global Polycrisis

The authors assess the adequacy of adaptive and transformative capacities for navigating the global polycrisis. Through a rapid assessment of their potential for addressing the 14 Anthropocene traps, they find that while 10 of 14 traps challenge 17 of 23 resilience capacities, 10 capacities hold general potential to prevent trap formation and progress, with transformative

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Dynamics of Polycrisis 2.0

This commentary reviews fifteen continuing dynamics of the polycrisis and examines how they have changed over the past year. It argues that global instability is increasingly driven by the interaction of multiple reinforcing crises, including proliferating armed conflicts, escalating geopolitical rivalry, the breakdown of international cooperation, rising inequality, democratic backsliding, and intensifying climate disruption. The

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Young Adults in Times of Overlapping Social Crises: Dynamic Profiles of Mental Health and Crisis-Related Concerns Using Latent Transition Analysis

This study examines how individual, relational, and contextual resources relate to distinct emotional-response profiles and their change over time among young adults navigating simultaneous crises. Using a three-wave longitudinal survey of a representative sample of Polish young adults aged 18 to 30, the authors identify five distinct emotional-response profiles and find that most participants remained

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Collective Memory and Genetic Social Psychology: A Necessary Rediscovery in Times of Polycrisis

The author argues that prevailing approaches to collective memory are too descriptive to address the developmental dynamics shaping memory in a polycrisis era marked by authoritarian resurgence and democratic fragility. He advances Genetic Social Psychology as an interdisciplinary framework that explains how collective memory, understood as social representations, is transformed through relations of domination, submission,

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Reflections by Thomas Homer-Dixon

In this interview, Dr.Thomas Homer-Dixon reflects on his intellectual journey from studying political science and human conflict to developing a broader framework for understanding interconnected global crises. He explains the concept of polycrisis as the synchronization of multiple, linked crises rather than a coincidence of separate shocks, suggesting that today’s converging disruptions may reflect deeper

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