Top Risks 2025
The report presents Eurasia Group’s annual forecast of the political risks that are most likely to emerge in 2025.
Policy and Practice
The Politics of Polycrisis
This book delves into the challenges and strategies for social democracy in Europe amid multiple, interconnected crises. It builds on discussions from the 10th Oxford Symposium and reflects on how progressive politics can navigate the complexity of today’s political and social landscape.
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Polycrisis and Child Wellbeing: Future Avenues Across Europe
The authors discuss the connections between polycrisis, child wellbeing, and policy-making throughout Europe.
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Governing for Growth in a Time of Polycrisis
This article discusses how governments reconcile the demands of fiscal crisis management with the risk of losing voter support in the context of the polycrisis.
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Policymaking in an Age of Polycrises: Emerging Perspectives
The authors present a review of the state of the art in polycrisis literature within the domains of public policy and administration. They explore the history and characteristics of polycrisis and discuss future research opportunities.
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A Philanthropic Theory of Systems Transformation for Advancing Equity in the Polycrisis
This article argues “that intervening to mitigate and reverse the effects of the polycrisis challenges change agents, program designers, foundations, and evaluators to move beyond traditional project-level thinking and autonomous foundation grantmaking to engage in collaborative, principles-driven systems transformation.” They trace the evolution of philanthropy over the past 25 years from SMART goals and logic
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Global crises are multiplying: Here’s how science can help our public decision-makers
The authors argue that the Canadian government’s Scientific Council, which synthesizes the best scientific evidence available for parliamentarians and members of government, needs much better evidence at its disposal to grapple with the global polycrisis. They outline five ways in which governments can more effectively utilize good evidence in policymaking: ask scientific advisors to “show
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All at Once: Multilateralism amid a Polycrisis
The authors argue that instead of seeing the polycrisis as a failure of multilateralism, analysis should focus on the ways in which multilateralism is adapting, and how it could better adapt, to intersecting global challenges. They propose a “digital public infrastructure” as a promising opportunity for multilateral cooperation to more effectively and equitably contend with
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Prepared for the Polycrisis? The Need for Complexity Science and Systems Thinking to Address Global and National Evidence Gaps
The authors argue that inadequate national and global level data prevent us from understanding the complex interactions of the polycrisis and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. They propose that applied systems thinking can address this gap by helping to hypothesize, model, visualize, and test system properties, especially if it uses participatory processes that “assist stakeholders
Evaluation in the Polycrisis Epoch
Michael Quinn Patton argues that good public policy evaluation is crucial for addressing the global polycrisis, but requires an informed citizenry. It is thus presently “engaged in a battle against misinformation, politicized knowledge, irrational decision-making, and authoritarian governments. Framing his analysis with Ancient Greek philosophy, Patton proposes that evaluation is really about critical thinking and
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