Fluorescent empty shelves, stocked only with anxiety, were the initial COVID-19 pandemic reality-check for many. Consumers and businesses were blindsided; their normal lives and operations shattered. The world immediately felt the fallout of disrupted supply chains, many of which have not yet recovered. So… [Read more]
Tag: Global Governance
Our Newest Global Utility: Why the Internet’s Address Book needs International Oversight
Why should you care about a few short internet outages? MIA student Paige Higbie talks about ICANN, the organisation making global decisions about our internet access, in an age in which a mobile phone has more computing power than… [Read more]
Can Subsidiarity Save the Liberal International Order?
In their piece, Markus Jachtenfuchs and Nico Krisch depart from the observation that global governance consists of a multitude of international institutions. They problematize, however, the relationship between those institutions on the one hand, and… [Read more]
Watching the World Health Organisation
Despite its longstanding reputation as an authoritative source of health guidelines and protector of the public interest, attempts to scrutinise the World Health Organization’s (WHO) decision-making processes are usually thwarted by a scarcity of information… [Read more]
Subsidiarity in Global Governance
Global governance is expanding fast and in different directions, often without a clear or principled framework to guide institutional creation and change. Bilateral and multilateral treaties as well as international organizations have been growing in number and scope,… [Read more]