Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 8/2022

Global governance

This year’s BRICS summit was a digitised event.
International relations

A brief history of the BRICS

Why Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa as a group are no real counterweight to the US-led G7

Inger Andersen, the executive director of UNEP, speaking at the agency’s headquarter in Nairobi.
Multilateralism

"The UN must adapt to global change"

Ugandan environment scholar says poor coordination thwarts UN agencies’ effectiveness

In spite of some recent agreements, the WTO does not seem revitalised: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, WTO director general during a press conference in Geneva in June.
International trade

The WTO has not collapsed, but it does look shaky

The big promises of the Doha Development Round did not come true

More Articles

“The unequal distribution of medical supplies was frustrating”: South African nurses in 2021.
World economy

Multilateral order faces toughest test since World War II

Why Ukraine war may sound death knell for world-market integration

Luxembourg is a small country with a big impact.
Financial transparency

USA tops this year’s Financial Secrecy Index

According to the Tax Justice Network, G7 members are slowing down global progress regarding financial transparency

Team of the SLE post-graduate study programme.
Development policy

Experts want true cooperation instead of paternalism

On its sixtieth anniversary, the SLE considers the future of its education in its post-graduate study programme

Humorous portrayal of Joe Biden, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin in Valencia, Spain.
Relevant Reading

On the way to a multipolar world order

China's rise means the US and Europe need to adjust their foreign policy to avoid losing geopolitical influence

WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus.
Covid-19

Position of the WHO at the beginning of the pandemic

Nationalist and authoritarian tendencies call into question the principle of human rights-based multilateralism

Manufacture of the Covid-19 vaccine in a new BioNTech facility in Marburg.
WHO

WHO deserves more independence and more money

National politics often hamper multilateral WHO efforts – as Covid-19 has clearly showed

International finance institutions

Two multilateral banks based in China

What the NDB and AIIB have in common – and how they differ

When a family member joins an extremist group, the cattle are safe: herders near Mopti in 2019.
Security

Islamist extremists operate like typical insurgents

In West Africa’s security crisis, local contexts have international ramifications

Flags in front of the UN headquarters in New York City.
Our View

Global challenges require global responses

Humanity’s common future depends on sovereign governments cooperating to ensure prudent global governance