Publications
Sustainable Development Goals – a useful outcome from Rio+20?
January 20, 2012 at 6:13 pm | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | Comments Off
Recent months have seen increasing interest in the idea that Rio+20 could be the launch pad for a new set of ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs). But what would SDGs cover, what would a process to define and then implement them look like, and what would some of the key political challenges be? This short briefing by Alex Evans and David Steven sets out a short summary of current thinking the issue, followed by thoughts about the way forward. (January 2012)
Creating Consensus on a post-2015 framework for development
December 1, 2011 at 12:00 pm | Claire Melamed | More on Articles and Publications, Economics and development, Global system | Comments Off
Any global framework for development which is agreed after 2015 will be a political deal between states. This paper looks at recent trends in policy and politics in emerging economies and traditional donors to assess where a consenus might lie. It suggests some principles for a post-2015 agreement which emerge from recent policy developments.
A post-2015 Global Development Agreement: why, who what?
November 2, 2011 at 10:49 am | Claire Melamed | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | Comments Off
Debate has started in earnest about what should come after the Millennium Development Goals when they expire in 2015. This paper from ODI and UNDP, authored by Claire Melamed and Andy Sumner, summarises the evidence on the impact of the MDGs, looks at current trends in poverty and in global governance that will affect the shape and the scope of any future agreement on global development.
Resource Scarcity, Fair Shares and Development
July 20, 2011 at 9:39 am | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | Comments Off
Why resource scarcity will be a game changer for global justice agendas, and what aid donors, NGOs and other development opinion formers need to do about it. WWF / Oxfam report by Alex Evans. (July 2011 – see also this speech given at the launch event)
Making Rio 2012 Work: Setting the stage for global economic, social and ecological renewal
June 2, 2011 at 10:37 pm | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | 2 Comments
Why sustainable development still isn’t a reality 20 years after the Earth Summit – and what Rio 2012 can do to turn the tide. CIC report by Alex Evans and David Steven. (June 2011)
Governance for a Resilient Food System
May 31, 2011 at 9:40 am | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | Comments Off
How national and international governance systems need to be reconfigured to meet the challenges of food security in a world of tighter supply and demand balances and increasing volatility. Report for Oxfam’s new Grow campaign by Alex Evans. (May 2011)
Running out of everything: how scarcity drives crisis in Pakistan
May 4, 2011 at 9:24 am | David Steven | More on Articles, Articles and Publications | Comments Off
Article by David Steven published in World Politics Review on scarcity of resources in Pakistan and what it means for the country. Available from World Politics Review here (subscription should not be required) (May 2011)
Economics for a world with limits
April 10, 2011 at 8:23 pm | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Speeches | Comments Off
Text of speech by Alex Evans to Institute for New Economic Thinking annual conference at Bretton Woods; the YouTube video is here. (April 2011)
Unscrambling the price spike
February 11, 2011 at 9:01 am | Alex Evans | More on Articles, Articles and Publications | Comments Off
Article published on China Dialogue on reasons for the new food price spike, including potential implications of the current drought in China. (February 2011)
2020 Development Futures
January 28, 2011 at 8:26 am | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | Comments Off
Eight critical uncertainties for development over the next decade, and ten recommendations for what ActionAid – who commissioned this report by Alex Evans - should do to prepare for them (January 2011)
American Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty
January 14, 2011 at 12:32 pm | David Steven | More on Articles, Articles and Publications | 2 Comments
Article by David Steven published in World Politics Review on current American foreign policy and what the QDDR could mean. Available from World Politics Review here (subscription required) or download below (January 2011)
The World in 2020 – Geopolitical and Trends Analysis
January 14, 2011 at 12:27 pm | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | Comments Off
Presentation and report by David Steven created initially for the British Council on the world in 2020, asking how organisations can prosper in what will be a turbulent period for world order. (July 2010)
Globalization and Scarcity
November 11, 2010 at 7:45 pm | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | Comments Off
Center on International Cooperation report by Alex Evans on what forms of multilateral cooperation are needed to manage scarcity of resources like land, food, energy and water (November 2010)
Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and the Risk of Violent Conflict
September 10, 2010 at 4:06 pm | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | Comments Off
Background paper for the World Bank’s 2011 World Development Report by Alex Evans on whether resource scarcity and climate change will cause increased violent conflict (September 2010)
Organizing for Influence: UK Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty
June 2, 2010 at 8:36 am | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports, UK | Comments Off
Chatham House report by Alex Evans and David Steven on how the UK’s new coalition government should upgrade and reform the way Britain conducts foreign policy (June 2010)
The Long Crisis Seminar
April 1, 2010 at 4:54 pm | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Conflict and security, Global system, Speeches | 1 Comment
Introductory remarks by David Steven at a Brookings Institution seminar on risk and resilience in the global system (March 2010)
Stop Betting the House talk
March 4, 2010 at 9:07 am | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Speeches | 1 Comment
Talk given by David Steven at Gresham College on risk and resilience in the UK housing market, as part of a Long Finance Roundtable meeting (March 2010)
Time to Stop Betting the House: a response to the FSA
February 1, 2010 at 12:46 pm | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | 1 Comment
Report by David Steven in response to the FSA’s Mortgage Market Review
Confronting the Long Crisis of Globalization: Risk, Resilience and International Order
January 26, 2010 at 2:59 am | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | 1 Comment
Brookings Institution report by Alex Evans, Bruce Jones and David Steven on how globalisation could fail – and how it could be made more resilient. Published to coincide with the 40th anniversary World Economic Forum in Davos.
Hitting Reboot – where next for climate after Copenhagen
December 21, 2009 at 5:07 pm | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Climate and resource scarcity, Reports | 1 Comment
Report by Alex Evans and David Steven analysing the post-Copenhagen context on climate change, including a proposed 12 point action plan. Written for the Brookings Institution / NYU Center on International Cooperation Managing Global Insecurity programme.
Climate Change and Hunger: Responding to the challenge
December 13, 2009 at 1:05 am | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | 1 Comment
World Food Programme report on the state of the science on what climate change means for hunger, plus policy recommendations. Authored by IPCC Impacts Chair Martin Parry with Mark Rosengrant, Tim Wheeler and Global Dashboard’s Alex Evans (December 2009)
Scarcity, security and institutional reform
August 26, 2009 at 2:08 pm | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Speeches | 1 Comment
Presentation by Alex Evans to a seminar organised for the UN Department of Political Affairs by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (August 2009)
The Resilience Doctrine
July 9, 2009 at 3:23 pm | David Steven | More on Articles, Articles and Publications | Comments Off
Article by Alex Evans and David Steven on risk and resilience – part of a special in World Politics Review on risk and resilience in a globalized age (July 2009)
An Institutional Architecture for Climate Change
May 10, 2009 at 1:00 am | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | 2 Comments
Report by Alex Evans and David Steven exploring the future international institutional requirements for managing climate change, and including three scenarios for climate institutions between now and 2030. Commissioned by the UK Department for International Development. (May 2009)
Risks and Resilience in the New Global Era
February 17, 2009 at 7:09 pm | Alex Evans | More on Articles, Articles and Publications | Comments Off
Article by Alex Evans and David Steven exploring resilience as a political agenda – part of a special edition of Renewal on the transformation of foreign policy (February 2009)
A Tale of Two Cities
January 30, 2009 at 1:34 pm | David Steven | More on Articles, Articles and Publications | Comments Off
Climate and cities think piece, co-authored by David Steven and the British Council’s Peter Upton (29 January 2009)
The Feeding of the Nine Billion
January 26, 2009 at 9:21 am | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | Comments Off
Chatham House pamphlet by Alex Evans on how scarcity issues will shape the outlook for global food production, and the actions that policymakers need to take at the international level and in developing countries to ensure food security in the 21st century
(January 2009)
2009 – A Year for International Reform
January 21, 2009 at 8:51 am | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | Comments Off
Paper by David Steven, presented to Reforming International Institutions – Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century, a conference organized by the United Nations University and the British Embassy in Tokyo
(21 January 2009)
Food prices: what next?
November 25, 2008 at 12:00 pm | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Speeches | 1 Comment
Speech by Alex Evans at the Tomorrow Network (25 November 2008)
A Bretton Woods II Worthy of the Name
November 15, 2008 at 12:00 pm | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | Comments Off
Paper by Alex Evans and David Steven on financial reform and wider multilateralism, published ahead of the G20 ‘Bretton Woods II’ Summit (November 2008).
The Future of Resilience
October 8, 2008 at 12:00 pm | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Speeches | Comments Off
Speech by David Steven to RUSI Conference on UK Resilience (8 October 2008)
Towards a Theory of Influence
July 11, 2008 at 12:22 pm | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Chapters | Comments Off
Chapter by Alex Evans and David Steven in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office publication, ‘Engagement: public diplomacy in a globalised world’ (July 2008).
Multilateralism for an Age of Scarcity
July 10, 2008 at 10:16 am | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | 1 Comment
Draft report by Alex Evans exploring multilateral system reforms needed in order to manage resource scarcity issues more effectively. The final version will be published in early 2010 (July 2008)
Scarcity issues and conflict in Africa
July 8, 2008 at 12:00 pm | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Speeches | 1 Comment
Speech by Alex Evans at UK Parliament (8 July 2008)
A Low Carbon World – Pathways to a Global Deal
July 4, 2008 at 12:00 pm | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Speeches | 1 Comment
Speech by David Steven at the UNU G8 Symposium (4 July 2008)
Climate, scarcity and multilateralism
June 7, 2008 at 12:00 pm | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Speeches | Comments Off
Speech by Alex Evans to United Nations Association UK (7 June 2008)
The new public diplomacy and Afghanistan
June 4, 2008 at 12:00 pm | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Speeches | 1 Comment
Speech by David Steven to the UK Defence Academy’s Advanced Research and Assessment Group seminar on Strategic Communications, Public Diplomacy and Afghanistan (4 June 2008).
Technology and Public Diplomacy
April 30, 2008 at 12:00 pm | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Speeches | Comments Off
Speech by David Steven to the University of Westminster Symposium on Transformational Public Diplomacy (30 April 2008).
Rising Food Prices: Drivers and Implications for Development
April 30, 2008 at 12:00 pm | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | 1 Comment
Briefing paper by Alex Evans, published through Chatham House’s food programme (April 2008).
Looking Forward: how do we build resilience?
April 16, 2008 at 12:00 pm | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Speeches | Comments Off
Speech by David Steven to RUSI Conference on Critical National Infrastructure (16 April 2008).
Shooting the Rapids: multilateralism and global risks
April 5, 2008 at 12:00 pm | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | Comments Off
Paper by Alex Evans and David Steven, commissioned by Gordon Brown and presented to heads of state at the Progressive Governance Summit (April 2008).
Beyond a Zero-Sum Game on Climate Change
March 30, 2008 at 12:00 pm | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Chapters | 1 Comment
Chapter by Alex Evans and David Steven, as part of the British Council’s Transatlantic Network 2020 book ‘Talking Trans-Atlantic’ (March 2008).
From Bali to Copenhagen: towards an endgame for global climate policy?
January 30, 2008 at 12:00 pm | Alex Evans | More on Articles, Articles and Publications | Comments Off
Article by Alex Evans for the Environmental Policy & Law Journal (January 2008).
Climate Change: The State of the Debate
December 30, 2007 at 12:00 pm | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | Comments Off
Report by Alex Evans and David Steven, written for the London Accord (December 2007).
The Post-Kyoto Bidding War: bringing developing countries into the fold
October 30, 2007 at 12:00 pm | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | Comments Off
New paper by Alex Evans on climate policy after 2012 from the Center on International Cooperation (October 2007).
Alternative CSR: the Foreign & Commonwealth Office
September 30, 2007 at 12:00 pm | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Chapters | Comments Off
Chapter on the FCO from Manchester University Press’s Alternative Comprehensive Spending Review, by David Steven (September 2007).
Fixing the UK’s Foreign Policy Apparatus: A Memo to Gordon Brown
April 30, 2007 at 12:00 pm | Alex Evans | More on Articles and Publications, Reports | Comments Off
Note by Alex Evans and David Steven about how to restructure the UK’s foreign policy system in order to manage trans-boundary global risks better (April 2007).
Evaluation and the New Public Diplomacy
March 30, 2007 at 12:00 pm | David Steven | More on Articles and Publications, Speeches | Comments Off
Talk given by David Steven at the Wilton Park conference: The Future of Public Diplomacy. Focuses on strategies to drive public diplomacy to the heart of the foreign policy armoury (March 2007).
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