The Disruption Nexus
This article discusses whether current crises will contribute to civilizational breakdown or whether humanity will successfully rise to such challenges.
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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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Geopolitical Conflicts, Anti-imperialism and Internationalism in Times of “Reactionary Acceleration”
In this article, Jaime Pastor discusses the current global geopolitical crisis exacerbated by the rise of extreme right movements globally, particularly following Trump’s electoral victory.
The (de)globalization of migration: Has the polycrisis period changed the patterns of global migration?
The authors explore whether migration really becoming more globalized (i.e. more heterogenous), or if there is evidence for recent (de)globalization trends, often attributed to flows of goods and capital.
Our Polycrisis Demands a Radically New Approach to Risk Management
Ruth Richardson discusses how current tools and strategies are not designed to assess the types of systemic risks that we currently face. The author calls on policymakers to drive a transformative shift in systemic risks management to effectively address the escalating polycrisis.
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Our polycrisis demands a radically new approach to risk management
Ruth Richardson, the Executive Director of the Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment, argues that the “escalating global polycrisis demands an urgent and transformative shift in how we assess, anticipate, and mitigate systemic risks.” She then suggests a range of practical actions governments could take to better contend with polycrisis, such as creating a Minister for
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A Year in Crises
Tim Sahay surveys the many crises covered in The Polycrisis newsletter over the last year and identifies four key shifts: northern countries are increasingly concerned with their own economic resilience but have not reformed the international financial system, so the global south remains increasingly vulnerable and disadvantaged; the past two years have witnessed more violent
What a ‘Polycrisis’ is and What it Means for Business
The article reports on a presentation by Dr. Alan Dupont, chief executive of Cognoscenti, at the Australasia Investor Relations Association’s 2023 annual convention. Dupont argued that, in an era of polycrisis, geopolitical risk should become a third pillar of environmental and social governance (ESG).
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Why the World Feels so Unstable Right Now
Tim Palmer discusses the challenges of predicting events in nonlinear systems that, by nature, experience intermittent instabilities, as in the famous “butterfly effect”. Today, continued emissions are increasing the instabilities and uncertainties of climate change, while the economy and global health exhibit similar non-linearities. To deal with such uncertainties, he advocates ensemble prediction systems that
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Why ‘Polycrisis’ was the Buzzword of Day 1 in Davos
Reporting on the first day of the World Economic Forum’s 2023 summit in Davos, Time magazine writer Yasmeen Serhan notes that “polycrisis” is the “most ubiquitous buzzword” of the meeting.
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