Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi)

COMMENTARY • JUNE 2021

Duel Pandemics: COVID-19 and Disinformation in Indonesia

Interview with Nurma Fitrianingrum

COMMENTARY • JUNE 2021

Deforestation and Democracy Shaping Brazil

Interview with Natalie Unterstell

COMMENTARY • MAY 2021

The Promise of Tech: Trust, Results and Hope for a “Greenshot”

Interview with Zach Beecher

COMMENTARY • MAY 2021

Will COVID-19 Push Space Technologies Into the Private Sector?

Interview with Vivien Croes

COMMENTARY • MAY 2021

Digitalization, Cyberbullying and Structural Discrimination in Japan

Interview with Mamiko Hermann

COMMENTARY • MAY 2021

Can Sustainable Forestry Solve Climate Change? Lessons Learned from African Forestry

Interview with Tomonobu Kumahira

COMMENTARY • APRIL 2021

Coronavirus Fuels India’s Many Inequalities

Interview with Rithika Nair

COMMENTARY • JANUARY 2021

Friend and Foe: How Technology Impacts the Way We Generate and Consume Information

Interview with Natalie Schnelle

COMMENTARY • JANUARY 2021

Between Two Epidemics: Coronavirus and Inequality in Brazil

Interview with Felipe Oriá

COMMENTARY • DECEMBER 2020

EU-Hong Kong: The New reality of Their Economic and Political Ties

Interview with Joel Sandhu and Max J. Zenglein

COMMENTARY • NOVEMBER 2020

Ordinary Patterns in an Extraordinary Crisis: How International Relations Makes Sense of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Article by Tana Johnson

COMMENTARY • SEPTEMBER 2020

The Media’s Watchdog: Misinformation and Polarization in Journalism

Interview with Sarah Richmond

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COMMENTARY • SEPTEMBER 2020

Border Tensions Put the China-India Relationship on Ice

Interview with Dev Lewis

COMMENTARY • AUGUST 2020

Beyond ‘Stay Safe’: COVID-19 and Inequality in South Africa

Interview with Tessa Dooms

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COMMENTARY • AUGUST 2020

Global Warning: Climate Justice and the Media

Interview with Tori Zheng Cui

COMMENTARY • JULY 2020

In Search of Silver Bullet in Addressing Inequality in the ASEAN Region

Interview with Agung Pamungkas

COMMENTARY • JULY 2020

Combating Disinformation in China

Interview with Sophia Qian Xu

COMMENTARY • JULY 2020

The Fourth Pillar: the Media and Challenges to Democracy

Interview with Marie Baléo

COMMENTARY • JULY 2020

An Unethical, Minimal, and Cruel Welfare State: COVID-19 and the Makings of a Demoralized U.S. Citizenry

Article by Helidah Ogude

COMMENTARY • JULY 2019

Tales of Titans

Book Review by David Bargueño

COMMENTARY • JULY 2019

Indonesia: Move Away from Business-As-Usual, Don’t Move the Capital

By Aidy Halimanjaya

COMMENTARY • JUNE 2019

What’s at Stake Amid Hong Kong’s Extradition Protests?

By Joel Sandhu

COMMENTARY • MAY 2019

China’s Evolving Security Footprint in Africa

Interview with Hang Zhou

COMMENTARY • APRIL 2019

Overlooked Opportunities for Irregular Migrants in Indonesia

Interview with Fransisca Christanti

COMMENTARY • APRIL 2019

Future Cities: Private, Tech-Enabled, and Inclusive?

Interview with Anjana Agarwal

COMMENTARY • APRIL 2019

Local Advocacy in a Polarized World: A Perspective from São Paulo

By Carolina Guimarães

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COMMENTARY • MARCH 2019

Managing the G20’s Relevance: Japan’s Role and Priorities during its G20 Presidency

Interview with Yuho Nishimura

COMMENTARY • MARCH 2019

Modi May Claim the Pakistan Standoff as Success, but Key Questions Remain

By Aryaman Bhatnagar

COMMENTARY • FEBRUARY 2019

Climate & Energy Industry: Beyond the Blind Spots

Interview with Ambre Eyoum

COMMENTARY • JANUARY 2019

Cities Are the Last Line of Defense of Globalization

Interview with Ana Ramic

COMMENTARY • JANUARY 2019

A Pragmatic and Humanist Approach to Refugees and Migrants

By Helidah Ogude

COMMENTARY • JANUARY 2019

Japan Runs the Risk of Repeating the Migration Mistakes Made by the “West”

By Naoko Hashimoto

COMMENTARY • DECEMBER 2018

Aging Gracefully: Japanese Cities Lead the Way

By Ryo Ishida

COMMENTARY • DECEMBER 2018

Hong Kong Should Use Its Financial Might to Fight Human Trafficking

By Tze-wei Ng

COMMENTARY • DECEMBER 2018

China’s Crackdown on Hong Kong’s Freedoms Is Bad for Business

By Joel Sandhu and Jill van de Walle

COMMENTARY • NOVEMBER 2018

A Call for Smart Commercial Diplomacy

By Carolina Costa

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COMMENTARY • NOVEMBER 2018

Think Local and Act Global

Interview with Cara Stauß

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COMMENTARY • OCTOBER 2018

We Need a Flexible World Order

By Cyril Prinsloo and Joel Sandhu

COMMENTARY • OCTOBER 2018

The Impact of Technology and Private Sector on Migration and Integration

Interview with Sayid Abdullaev

COMMENTARY • OCTOBER 2018

Joining City Networks: Lessons for Impact

By Jodi Allemeier

COMMENTARY • SEPTEMBER 2018

Will Indonesia Emerge as Asia’s Third Giant?

Interview with Liana Lim Hinch

COMMENTARY • AUGUST 2018

Chinese Cities, Sustainable Development and Global Connectivity

Interview with Min Yang

COMMENTARY • AUGUST 2018

Digital Identity for Refugees in India: Empowerment or Surveillance?

By Astha Kapoor

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COMMENTARY • JULY 2018

South Africa: Driving the BRICS Agenda

By Cyril Prinsloo

COMMENTARY • JULY 2018

Autonomous Weapon Systems: The Possibility and Probability of Accountability

By Swati Malik

COMMENTARY • JULY 2018

Mixed Migration, Forced Displacement and Job Outcomes in South Africa

Report by Helidah Ogude and the World Bank Group

COMMENTARY • JULY 2018

Let Us Look at Refugees as Entrepreneurs

Interview with Sayid Abdullaev and Thiago Assunção

COMMENTARY • JULY 2018

Connecting Locals with Newcomers

Interview with Cédric Bischetti

COMMENTARY • JUNE 2018

Japan’s Tussle Over Immigration

Interview with Naoko Hashimoto

COMMENTARY • MAY 2018

India’s Thinking Global. It Should Act Regional First

By Aryaman Bhatnagar and Joel Sandhu

COMMENTARY • MARCH 2018

Our Global Future Will Require Inclusive Ideas

By Joel Sandhu

COMMENTARY • FEBRUARY 2018

Climate Change Will Further Complicate the Politics of U.S. Military Bases

By Jeff Colgan

COMMENTARY • JULY 2017

China's New Role in Global Health Security

Interview with Tang Kun

COMMENTARY • JUNE 2017

We Need to ‘Fear-guard’ Economies During Health Emergencies

By Sulzhan Bali

COMMENTARY • APRIL 2017

Future Challenges of Data Governance and Implications for Japan

Interview with Reirui Ri

COMMENTARY • APRIL 2017

Japan can be More Proactive in Creating a Global Consensus on Data Governance

Interview with Shoko Yoshihara

COMMENTARY • MARCH 2017

China's Response to Terrorism

Interview with Yuan Ma

COMMENTARY • MARCH 2017

Why Open Data Is Good for China

By Yolanda Jinxin Ma

COMMENTARY • JANUARY 2017

Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health Governance

Interview with Mara Pillinger

COMMENTARY • DECEMBER 2016

Does Terrorism Work? The Goals of Violent Actors, and how to Avoid Giving them What they Want

By Laila Wahedi

COMMENTARY • DECEMBER 2016

The Islamic State in South Asia: A Growing Threat

By Aryaman Bhatnagar and Joel Sandhu

COMMENTARY • DECEMBER 2016

China's Changing Terrorism Threat Perception

Interview with Fanglu Sun

COMMENTARY • NOVEMBER 2016

Policymakers Need Technical Literacy Too

By Evan Sills

COMMENTARY • OCTOBER 2016

Democratization is not an All-Use-Medicine

Interview with Yuan Ma

COMMENTARY • OCTOBER 2016

How Prepared is India to Tackle Epidemics?

Interview with Chandrakant Lahariya

COMMENTARY • JUNE 2016

Power in the Digital Age

By Cathleen Berger

COMMENTARY • JUNE 2016

Beyond Strategic Planning: Global Governance Futures

By Johannes Gabriel and Joel Sandhu

COMMENTARY • FEBRUARY 2016

Despite Paris, We Need to Take Geoengineering Seriously

By Masahiko Haraguchi

COMMENTARY • JULY 2015

United Nations to Retire at 70 – Youthful United Actors to Take Over

By Susanne Salz

COMMENTARY • JULY 2015

E-Governance and the Provision of Public Goods in India

By Parminder Pal Singh Sandhu

COMMENTARY • JULY 2015

The Sony Hack and the Law of War: Coming to a Theater Near You

By Seth Oppenheim

COMMENTARY • APRIL 2015

Towards a Collaborative Geoengineering Regime

By Jasdeep Randhawa

COMMENTARY • APRIL 2015

Internet Governance Reform the Indian Way

By Aasim Khan

COMMENTARY • MARCH 2015

Geoengineering and the Need for Inclusive Institutions

By Akiko Suzuki

COMMENTARY • JANUARY 2015

Autonomous Weapons Systems: The Urgent Need for Regulation

By Swati Malik

COMMENTARY • JANUARY 2015

Effective Communications is Key to Geoengineering Governance

By Rongkun Liu

COMMENTARY • JANUARY 2015

Multi - stakeholderism Unmasked: How the NetMundial Initiative Shifts Battlegrounds in Internet Governance

By Julia Pohle

COMMENTARY • DECEMBER 2014

Banning Drones? Let's Not Get Ahead of Ourselves

By Takaaki Asano

COMMENTARY • NOVEMBER 2014

New Weapon Systems Require a New International Legal Framework

By Conrad Hässler

COMMENTARY • NOVEMBER 2014

Global Internet Governance

By Taejun Shin

COMMENTARY • SEPTEMBER 2014

Global Arms Control

By Kevin Körner

COMMENTARY • SEPTEMBER 2014

No Guarantees on the ICANN Transition

By Jonah Hill

COMMENTARY • SEPTEMBER 2014

Making Sense of China and India's Low-Carbon Pathways

By Ma Yuge and Joel Sandhu

COMMENTARY • SEPTEMBER 2014

The Hidden Casualties of Drone Warfare

By Abdul El-Sayed

COMMENTARY • SEPTEMBER 2014

Geoengineering Governance

By Susan Shifflet

COMMENTARY • DECEMBER 2013

Developing a Code of Conduct for Internet Governance

By Shen Yi

COMMENTARY • SEPTEMBER 2013

Beyond Business as Usual: Turning Challenges into Opportunities in Post-2015 Development Financing Strategies

By Jiajun Xu

COMMENTARY • SEPTEMBER 2013

An Abdication of Global Governance? Why We Must Take a Closer Look at International Bureaucrats

By Tana Johnson

COMMENTARY • JULY 2013

Surveillance: Blurring the Lines Between National Security and Law Enforcement

By Vivek Mohan

COMMENTARY • JULY 2013

China vs. US: Localizing the Great Climate Game

By Iris Ferguson

COMMENTARY • JULY 2013

The Next Wave of the Mobile Revolution in Development

By Hannah Bowen

COMMENTARY • APRIL 2013

Homecoming of the Internet

By Martin Kaul

COMMENTARY • MARCH 2013

Connecting Systems: EU’s Internal Energy Market and Future Cooperation with MENA

By Fabian Wigand

COMMENTARY • JANUARY 2013

Fragile States and Failed Policies: Two Global Public Policy Challenges at Eye Level

By Dominik Balthasar

COMMENTARY • DECEMBER 2012

Think Different Development

By Eliot Pence

COMMENTARY • NOVEMBER 2012

Key Ingredients for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

By Clara Brandi

COMMENTARY • NOVEMBER 2012

Global Cyber (Security) Governance – Facing a Decisive Decade

By Joachim Knodt

COMMENTARY • OCTOBER 2012

GG2022 – New Thinking for Global Governance Needed

By Johannes Gabriel and Joel Sandhu