There is today a global recognition that we live in an 'urban age'of near-planetary
urbanization where cities are at the forefront of all sorts of agendas. Yet little attention is …

Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today.
Drawing on research into 202 cities in 100 countries, the book provides a broad …

The importance of technology in global affairs is visible to the naked and uninitiated eye. Yet
International Relations (IR) still lacks a more systematic and critical attention to the role of …

Indigenous knowledges have received increased attention in environmental governance
issues over the last decade, especially biodiversity. Epistemic injustices, however, remain …

The 70th anniversary of the signing and entry into force of the United Nations Charter
provides a good moment to revisit the conditions under which Allied governments decided to …

This article presents an initial discussion of the political and legal challenges associated
with weaponised technologies in three interconnected areas that may im**e upon the …

Ever since global governance was introduced to the discipline of International Relations
(IR), it has been criticised for its conceptual vagueness and ambiguity. In fact, how to even …

The purpose of this article is to establish the value of looking at global governance from the
point of view of those who are governed, thereby making them more visible in a field in …

Current international relations (IR) theories and approaches, which are almost exclusively
built in the West, are alien to the non-Western contexts that engender the most hard …

Abstract Since Dolly the Sheep was cloned in 1996, the question of whether human
reproductive cloning should be banned or pursued has been the subject of international …