Are climate summits successful in orchestrating effective subnational action? There is no easy answer to this question. For example, the 27th UN Conference of Parties (COP), billed as the ...

Credit: Illustration by Catherine Putz. We’re used to hearing about how China’s growing overseas political influence campaigns are reshaping alliances and partnerships from South America to the ...

Over the past 15 years, the composition of development finance has undergone tremendous changes. What was previously dominated by official development assistance (ODA) provided by traditional ...

Since before Ronald Reagan’s time as governor, Californians have considered their rich and bountiful home something of a “nation-state.” It’s a phrase Gov. Gavin Newsom has employed repeatedly – and a ...

South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken explored “creative” ways to engage North Korea on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

In January 2022, Nashik became the fifth city in Maharashtra to announce a municipal-level climate action plan. Now there are 40 other cities in the state formulating roadmaps for adaptation and ...

Justice Louis Brandeis coined the phrase “laboratories of democracy” to describe how states, as subnational governments, could try social and economic experiments that might later become a model for ...

Nonpharmaceutical interventions such as stay-at-home orders continue to be the main policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic in countries with limited or slow vaccine rollout. Often, nonpharmaceutical ...

COP30 failed to deliver a roadmap for a fossil-fuel phase-out, exposing a widening gap in global climate ambition. Subnational governments — from US states to Indian regions — are now driving the most ...

Eleven states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) increased their domestic debt stock by a combined N373.06 billion between December ...