This is the 1,999th post ever on Global Dashboard. We’ll leave #2,000 to David and Alex to mess up with some tedious factoid about how we’re all about to die thanks to scarcity or climate or blah-di-blah. But at least a few of us multilateralist nerds still believe in good, old-fashioned values and icons. Like religion. Or the UN Charter. Or both. So here’s a suitably millenarian image of Our Lord at the UN to celebrate the anniversary…
(Hat tip: Gawker.)
If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad? No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion. Result: decades of flip flopping. Ambition under Clinton; reversal...
Official development assistance (ODA) – or aid – is a small but conspicuous pillar of the international order, and its frailties are being exposed by COVID as surely as those of the other foundations of this order. The assumptions underpinning aid and its management...
Since its onset, one striking feature of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has been the narrative power of its novelty. This global narrative depicts COVID-19 pushing humanity towards a ‘historical divide’ of BC and AC (before and after COVID-19), where unknown,...