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Service Delivery in Systems of Hybrid Governance: A Framework for Development Actors in Complex Settings
How can development actors deliver services in hybrid governance contexts where state and non-state actors share authority?
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The UN Beyond GDP Intergovernmental Process
Key Dimensions for 2026 and Beyond.
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Implications of the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on State Obligations around Climate Change for Future Generations
How the ICJ’s 2025 Advisory Opinion reshapes state responsibility for climate change while leaving key gaps on intergenerational justice.
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From Science to Policy: Planetary Solutions in Action
Report translating breakthrough science into actionable policy for planetary health
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Governing for the End of the Month or the End of the World? Leverage Points to Overcome Governance Myopia
Beyond growth: how can governance systems be transformed to support a human-rights economy? New UNU-CPR paper sets out pathway.
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Moving from Crisis Management to Resource Mobilization in the UN80 Process
At its 80th anniversary, the United Nations faces an “untenable” financial trajectory and explores options to mobilize funding.
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Moving from Crisis Management to Resource Mobilization in the UN80 Process
Innovative strategies to sustain the UN amid mounting financial pressures.
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General Assembly Responses to Conflict and Crisis Situations
A Follow-on Research Initiative to Assembly for Peace: A Digital Handbook on the UN General Assembly’s Past Practice on Peace and Security
Policy Brief
Governance Developments Shaping Sovereign Credit Assessments
How governance structures shape sovereign credit assessments and the transmission of reforms into ratings.
Policy Brief
Why do Countries Walk Away from International Organizations? And What do Current Breakups Mean for Global Politics?
An analysis shows that withdrawals from international organizations are often strategic, costly, and temporary.