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This report provides an outlook of the current global context, arguing that the period of easy globalisation is over and that the 2020s constitute a fourth systemic crisis — a “crisis of global integration” — driven by three mutually reinforcing forces: the return of multipolarity under nuclear constraint, a structural shift from commodity abundance to […]
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This article explores digital resilience within a hypermediated polycrisis, arguing that overlapping crises are increasingly experienced through deeply interconnected digital environments that shape how people understand and respond to disruption. It highlights digital resilience as a dynamic, socially embedded process involving digital literacy, social networks, and adaptive capacities across multiple levels, and notes that marginalized
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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
Beyond Survival: Sustaining Human Agency in Challenging Times – Graham Leicester Read More »
In this episode, Nate Hagens moves beyond diagnosis of the global polycrisis to propose a practical framework for action organised around six interdependent fronts: infrastructure and physical stock redesign, poverty and dignity infrastructure, ecological intervention, civic resilience and governance, culture and meaning, and economic transition toward post-growth models. Arguing that the window for building the
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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
Is Polycrisis a Global Phenomenon? Perspectives from Comparative Politics Read More »
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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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,
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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In this episode, Nate Hagens introduces a new recurring segment, Uncomfortable Questions in Unstable Times, focused on examining foundational assumptions about growth, stability, and societal purpose. He explores what might change if societies shifted their primary objective from economic growth to systemic stability, and considers how such a reorientation could reshape political incentives, cultural norms,
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This article argues that the most consequential risks of the coming years will emerge not from individual crises but from their interaction, eroding trust and fragmenting systems. It identifies four risk trends likely to shape the path to 2030: the emergence of an increasingly polycentric world as US global leadership becomes more selective; a deepening
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