
On January 20, 2025, one of Donald Trump’s first executive orders was to withdraw the United States from the WHO (World Health Organization). In 1975, the Republican Gerald Ford decided to leave the ILO (International Labour Organization). The Reagan administration withdrew from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1983. In both cases,
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As biodiversity loss accelerates, financial actors are increasingly engaging with the issue—but not under the banner of biodiversity itself. Instead, they are embracing nature-related risk, an umbrella concept modeled after, aligned with, and integrated into existing climate finance frameworks. This shift raises critical implications for global biodiversity conservation, as it risks prioritizing the most financially
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We live in a period of profound change and transformation, with neoliberalism now under siege and becoming channeled in new directions. At the center of all of this is the state, especially states that are also great powers. Shifting geopolitical fortunes, the impact of technological change, the corrosion of established political institutions and the pernicious
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Trump’s return to the White House will have seismic effects on the global political economy. These won’t be limited to one-off shocks like those associated with his threatened 25% tariff increase. A more lasting legacy will be the broad-based repoliticization of the global economy: a move away from decades of attempts by policymakers to depoliticize
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