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Volume 15, month 11, 2024

Economic, social and environmental sustainability in uncertainty times pp. 4-7

María‐Jesús Segovia‐Vargas and María‐del‐Mar Camacho‐Miñano

Temporary trade regulations amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine pp. 8-20

Mampiandra Antonia Ngavozafy and Maria C. Latorre

A policy and quantitative analysis of U.S. climate policy from a global perspective pp. 21-33

David Suárez‐Cuesta, Maria C. Latorre and Hidemichi Yonezawa

Measuring climate change from an actuarial perspective: A survey of insurance applications pp. 34-46

Nan Zhou, José Luis Vilar‐Zanón, Jose Garrido and Antonio José Heras‐Martínez

Sustainability risk in insurance companies: A machine learning analysis pp. 47-64

Freddy Alejandro Oquendo‐Torres and María Jesús Segovia‐Vargas

Financial constraints and sustainability in bioeconomy firms pp. 65-82

Marta Miranda‐García and María‐Jesús Segovia‐Vargas

Social sustainability: Viability analysis of social firms pp. 83-98

María Jesús Segovia‐Vargas, María del Mar Camacho‐Miñano and Vera Gelashvili

Detecting zombie firms in a sample of Finnish small firms pp. 99-114

Erkki K. Laitinen

Earnings management reactions to key audit matters pp. 115-130

María‐del‐Mar Camacho‐Miñano, Domenico Campa and Laura Parte

Earlier reporting misconducts by serial entrepreneurs as predictors of misconduct‐triggered forced firm closures pp. 131-146

Oliver Lukason and Mark Kantšukov

Volume 15, month 09, 2024

The possibility of climate restoration law pp. 5-7

Petra Minnerop and Friederike E. L. Otto

Changing climate law and governance: A multi‐level perspective pp. 8-19

Brian J. Preston

Intergenerational Preparedness: Climate Change, Community Interest Obligations and the Environmental Rule of Law pp. 20-41

Petra Minnerop

Catching the tide: Reversing legal trends to find collective and long‐term solutions that value the natural world pp. 42-52

Colin T. Reid

Synergy‐as‐principle in global climate regulation pp. 53-63

Volker Roeben

Equalising the evidence base for adaptation and loss and damages pp. 64-74

Friederike E. L. Otto and Frederick Fabian

Climate action for health: Inter‐regional engagement to share knowledge to guide mitigation and adaptation actions pp. 75-96

Robin Fears, Claudia Canales‐Holzeis, Deoraj Caussy, Sherilee L. Harper, Victor Chee Wai Hoe, Jeremy N. McNeil, Johanna Mogwitz, Volker ter Meulen and Andy Haines

Competing narratives of the Russia–Ukraine war: Why the West hasn't convinced the rest pp. 559-569

Hilary Appel

An expanded investigation of alliance security free riding pp. 570-582

Wukki Kim, Todd Sandler and Hirofumi Shimizu

The failed negotiations to restore the Iran nuclear deal pp. 583-592

Tom Sauer

Small state adaptation and relational autonomy: The case of the United Arab Emirates and South America pp. 593-603

Robert Mason and Paulo Cesar Rebello

How to constitute global citizens' forums: Key selection principles pp. 604-614

John S. Dryzek and Simon J. Niemeyer

Behind closed doors: Informal influence on United Nations staffing and pathologies of international bureaucracies pp. 615-630

Tianhan Gui

The diverse cities of global urban climate governance pp. 631-643

Marielle Papin and Jacob Fortier

Overcoming gridlock? The role of city networks in transnational cooperation on climate mitigation pp. 644-659

Sam Taveirne and Ben Derudder

Catching up with climate priorities: Understanding multilateral development banks' evolving approach to biodiversity pp. 660-675

Christoph Nedopil, Mathias Larsen, Aurelie Chane‐Yook and Divya Narain

Assessing public health implications of free trade agreements: The comprehensive and progressive Trans‐Pacific Partnership Agreement pp. 676-688

Liz Green, Kath Ashton, Leah Silva, Courtney McNamara, Michael Fletcher, Louisa Petchey, Timo Clemens and Margaret Douglas

Urgent pandemic messaging of WHO, World Bank, and G20 is inconsistent with their evidence base pp. 689-707

David Bell, Garrett Wallace Brown, Jean von Agris and Blagovesta Tacheva

Global governance through voluntary sustainability standards: Developments, trends and challenges pp. 708-728

Axel Marx, Charline Depoorter, Santiago Fernandez de Cordoba, Rupal Verma, Mercedes Araoz, Graeme Auld, Janne Bemelmans, Elizabeth A. Bennett, Eva Boonaert, Clara Brandi, Thomas Dietz, Eve Fouilleux, Janina Grabs, Lars H. Gulbrandsen, James Harrison, Robert Heilmayr, Ariel Hernandez, Bernard Hoekman, Siti Rubiah Lambert, Eric Lambin, Li Li, Miet Maertens, Paulo Mortara Batistic, Etsuyo Michida, Junji Nakagawa, Archna Negi, Jorge A. Pérez‐Pineda, Stefano Ponte, Ximena Rueda, Philip Schleifer, Vera Thorstensen and Hamish van der Ven

The geopolitics of supply chains: EU efforts to ensure security of supply pp. 729-739

Andrew Glencross

The war in Ukraine, the Global South and the evolving global order pp. 740-745

Malte Brosig and Raj Verma

Argentina and the Ukraine War: Between pragmatism and values pp. 746-751

Bruno Binetti

Peace as a hypothetical imperative: Brazil's foreign policy standpoint on the war in Ukraine pp. 752-756

Dawisson Belém Lopes and Karin Costa Vázquez

Aligned or non‐aligned: South Africa's response to the war in Ukraine pp. 757-761

Malte Brosig

Egypt's position in the Russia–Ukraine war pp. 762-767

Eman Ragab

Russia's invasion of Ukraine: Nigeria's value‐driven and pragmatic indifferent stance pp. 768-772

Bonnie Ayodele

China's reaction to the Russia–Ukraine war: A test case for a global ‘Pax Sinica’? pp. 773-777

Björn Alexander Düben

Russia–Ukraine war and India's quest for leading power status pp. 778-782

Raj Verma

Indonesia's Russia‐Ukraine war stance and the Global South: Between solidarity and transactionalism pp. 783-788

Leonard C. Sebastian and Adhi Priamarizki

The benefits of neutrality: Saudi foreign policy in the wake of the Ukraine war pp. 789-793

Jens Heibach

The Russia–Ukraine war, the evolving global order, the Global South and emergence of non‐alignment 2.0 pp. 794-801

Raj Verma and Malte Brosig

Volume 15, month 07, 2024

Introduction: Development practice, power and public authority pp. 5-10

Tom Kirk and Rose Pinnington

Power and public authority pp. 11-23

William D. Ferguson

‘Vaccine populism’ and migrant assistance: On the contingency of mutual aid in Italy's Alpine region pp. 24-35

Elizabeth Storer and Costanza Torre

Localising aid: Urban displacement, contested public authority and legitimacy in Jordan and Lebanon pp. 36-47

Dolf J. H. te Lintelo and Tim Liptrot

Local governance networks as public authority: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan pp. 48-59

Anuradha Joshi, Colin Anderson, Katrina Barnes, Egidio Chaimite, Miguel Loureiro and Alex Shankland

Intermediaries, isomorphic activism and programming for social accountability in Pakistan pp. 60-70

Tom Kirk

To go with or against the grain? Politics as practice in the Budget Strengthening Initiative, Uganda pp. 71-83

Rose Pinnington

Contested ‘commune rurales’: Decentralisation and the (violent) struggle for public authority in the Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 84-96

Karen Büscher, Stephanie Perazzone, Jeroen Cuvelier, Stephane Lumbu, Espoir Rwakira, Paul Bulambo, Chrispin Mvano Yabauma and Godefroid Muzalia

In the line of duty: Militarising African epidemics pp. 97-108

Tim Allen and Melissa Parker

Volume 15, month 06, 2024

Emerging trends in peacebuilding: The case of Colombia pp. 5-13

Siniša Vuković, Giovanna Maria Dora Dore and Guadalupe Paz

Indigenous autonomy and decentralization in Colombia's quest for peace pp. 14-25

Derek P. Mitchell

Gender perspective in the making: The case of the Colombian peacebuilding process pp. 26-38

Camila García

Women peacebuilders in Colombia and new digital solutions pp. 39-46

Maggie Hustead

Digital peacebuilding in post‐conflict Colombia – A conceptual framework pp. 47-57

Tate Ryan‐Mosley

The European Union's support of the implementation of the peace process in Colombia pp. 58-67

Alexandre Polack

Convergence of crises in Colombia: The intersection of refugee crisis, illegal armed groups and policy missteps pp. 68-82

Kirk A. Johnson

Beyond the narrative: Colombia and the Venezuelan migrants pp. 83-92

Abdihakim Hussein and Emily Nye

Climate change and security narratives in Colombia pp. 93-104

Will Yoss and Benjamin L. Reust

NATO and the institutional reform of the Colombian armed forces pp. 105-119

Andrew I. G. McKellips

Colombia's role in great power competition pp. 120-129

Kristen Jones

Colombia – US relations in an era of great power competition pp. 130-142

Aaron Marchant and Joshua Stroud

Colombia's economic relations with China: The role of economics and politics in trade, investment, and economic agreements pp. 143-159

Xiang (Joanna) Quan

Editorial pp. 499-501

Flavia Lucenti, Thomas McWilliam, Maren Vieluf and Gregory Stiles

Unique data, different values: Explaining variation in the use of biometrics by international humanitarian organizations pp. 502-515

Çağlar Açıkyıldız

Epistemic competition in global governance: The case of pharmaceutical patents pp. 516-527

Cynthia Couette

‘No safe haven’: Why the GATT ‘regional exception’ does not apply to technical barriers to trade pp. 528-538

Silvia Nuzzo

Climate policy at the International Monetary Fund: No voice for the vulnerable? pp. 539-553

Lara Merling and Timon Forster

Volume 15, month 05, 2024

Power shifts in international organisations: China at the United Nations pp. 5-17

Sebastian Haug, Rosemary Foot and Max‐Otto Baumann

Reining in a liberal UN: China, power shifts, and the UN's peace and security pillar pp. 18-28

Rosemary Foot

Accommodation available: China, Western powers and the operation of structural power in the UN Security Council pp. 29-37

Richard Gowan

‘Wolf Warriors’ in the UN Security Council? Investigating power shifts through blaming pp. 38-50

Nicolas Verbeek

From developing country to superpower? China, power shifts and the United Nations development pillar pp. 51-61

Max‐Otto Baumann, Sebastian Haug and Silke Weinlich

Comprehensive power shifts in the making: China's policy transfer partnerships with the United Nations pp. 62-73

Sebastian Haug and Laura Trajber Waisbich

China, power and the United Nations Special Procedures: Emerging threats to the “crown jewels” of the international human rights system pp. 74-84

Rana Siu Inboden

Powers of persuasion? China's struggle for human rights discourse power at the UN pp. 85-96

Malin Oud

Is power shifting? China's evolving engagement with UNESCO pp. 97-109

Wenting Meng

Chinese power in the World Heritage Committee: From learning the game to shaping the rules pp. 110-120

Steven Langendonk and Edith Drieskens

A mixed funding pattern: China's exercise of power within the United Nations pp. 121-134

Xueying Zhang and Yijia Jing

Personnel power shift? Unpacking China's attempts to enter the UN civil service pp. 135-147

Shing‐hon Lam and Courtney J. Fung

Between co‐optation and emancipation: Chinese women's NGOs and power shifts at the United Nations pp. 148-158

Yiping Cai

Intelligence in international society: An English school perspective on the ‘five eyes’ pp. 223-233

Robert Schuett and John Williams

The art of the Trump‐Iran deal: An unsuccessful coercive foreign policy pp. 234-246

Amir Magdy Kamel

A comparison of British and German parliamentary discourses on science diplomacy over time pp. 247-259

Anna‐Lena Rüland and Nicolas Rüffin

Supply chain divergence challenges a ‘Brussels effect’ from Europe's human rights and environmental due diligence laws pp. 260-275

Mairon G. Bastos Lima and Almut Schilling‐Vacaflor

Indicator accountability or policy shrinking? Multistakeholder partnerships in reviews of the sustainable development goals pp. 276-287

Magdalena Bexell

Here to stay? Challenges to liberal environmentalism in regional climate governance pp. 288-300

David Krogmann

Digital nomadism and the challenge to social citizenship pp. 301-313

Adam K. Webb

Perceptions of social credit systems in Southeast Asia: An external technology acceptance model pp. 314-328

Wiebke Rabe and Genia Kostka

Reserving the right to say no? Equilibria around hard trade‐sustainability commitments in power‐asymmetric contexts pp. 329-341

Rodrigo Fagundes Cezar and Oto Murer Küll Montagner

Does governance matter? Comparing the determinants of Chinese and Western trade with Africa pp. 342-354

David Landry

The United States–China ‘tech war’: Decoupling and the case of Huawei pp. 355-367

Maria Ryan and Stephen Burman

Introduction – The evolution of New Development Bank (NDB): A decade plus in the making pp. 368-382

Gregory T. Chin

The future of the BRICS and the New Development Bank pp. 383-388

Cross Bench Peer in the House of Lords Lord O'Neill of Gatley

Southern multilateralism from IBSA to NDB: Synergies, continuities and regional options pp. 389-397

Chris Alden and Garth le Pere

The United Arab Emirates and the New Development Bank: Mutual interests and first‐mover advantages pp. 398-404

Andrew F. Cooper and Brendon J. Cannon

Latin American agency: The New Development Bank, Uruguay's accession and Brazilian influence pp. 405-413

Alvaro Mendez

Bangladesh and New Development Bank (NDB): Accession and after, money and more pp. 414-426

Gregory T. Chin and Rifat D. Kamal

The New Development Bank in Africa: Mid‐term evaluation and lessons learned pp. 427-433

Daniel D. Bradlow and Magalie L. Masamba

The New Development Bank: Directions on strategic partnerships pp. 434-442

Suresh Nanwani

Why China supports NDB membership expansion: Going multilateral amid power struggles pp. 443-450

Jiejin Zhu

New Development Bank's role in the global financial architecture pp. 451-457

Bert Hofman and P. S. Srinivas

Deciding which ‘developing’ country list to use: A practical guide pp. 458-464

Deborah Barros Leal Farias

Private sector participation in infrastructure in emerging market and developing economies: Evolution, constraints, and policies pp. 465-474

Joseph Mawejje

A search dilemma for market niches: Korea and Taiwan in a time of US‐China high‐tech decoupling pp. 475-486

Chan‐Yuan Wong and Christopher J. Russell

Making the UNFCCC fit for purpose: A research agenda on vested interests and green spiralling pp. 487-494

Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Alexandra Buylova, Mathias Fridahl and Gunilla Reischl

Volume 15, month 03, 2024

Introduction to the special issue: “Current challenges of corporate governance: Reputation, risk and sustainability” pp. 5-7

Myriam García‐Olalla and Camilo José Vázquez‐Ordás

Digital innovation and de‐branching in the banking industry: Customer perception and satisfaction pp. 8-20

Santiago Carbó‐Valverde, Pedro J. Cuadros‐Solas, Francisco Rodríguez‐Fernández and José Juan Sánchez‐Béjar

Climate‐related credit risk: Rethinking the credit risk framework pp. 21-33

Helena Redondo and Elisa Aracil

Sustainable banking and trust in the global South pp. 34-44

Fernando Ubeda, Alvaro Mendez and Francisco Javier Forcadell

Work environment and health of bank employees working from home: Lessons from the COVID‐19 pandemic pp. 45-61

Carla Azpíroz‐Dorronsoro, Beatriz Fernández‐Muñiz, José Manuel Montes‐Peón and Camilo José Vázquez‐Ordás

Mapping research on corporate misconduct in banking: Lessons from literature on preventive and punitive actions pp. 62-75

Rita Rodríguez‐Arrojo, Manuel Luna, Camilo J. Vázquez‐Ordás and Myriam García‐Olalla

Risk analysis of Spanish companies pp. 76-91

Juan Antonio Rodríguez‐Sanz, Eleuterio Vallelado and Miguel Fernández‐Martín

How the method for delivering loans impacts on the economic efficiency of microfinance institutions pp. 92-102

José L. Fernández Sánchez, María D. Odriozola and Elisa Baraibar‐Diez

Volume 15, month 02, 2024

Courts, climate litigation and the evolution of earth system law pp. 5-22

Louis J. Kotzé, Benoit Mayer, Harro van Asselt, Joana Setzer, Frank Biermann, Nicolas Celis, Sam Adelman, Bridget Lewis, Amanda Kennedy, Helen Arling and Birgit Peters

Does earmarked funding affect the performance of international organisations? pp. 23-39

Bernhard Reinsberg and Christian Siauwijaya

Contested informality in regional institutional design: A comparative analysis of ASEAN and the Quad pp. 40-52

Andrew F. Cooper and Brendon J. Cannon

Qatar's foreign aid and political strategies in the Horn of Africa: The case of Somalia pp. 53-65

Altea Pericoli and Federico Donelli

Policy and hope: The millennium development goals pp. 66-77

Alastair Greig and Mark Turner

Unveiling child trafficking: Local perspectives and context in addressing sustainable development goals in Sierra Leone pp. 78-90

Alex Balch, Anna M. Cody, David Okech, Tamora Callands, Umaru Fofanah and Haja Ramatulai Wurie

Making universal education a priority for sustainable development: The EU, Vietnam and education pp. 91-102

Catherine Gegout

Accountability in densely institutionalized governance spaces pp. 103-113

Mette Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni and Stephanie C. Hofmann

Informality and the governance dilemma: How institutional inter‐linkages can bridge accountability gaps pp. 114-120

Charles B. Roger

Ad hoc coalitions: From hierarchical to network accountability in peace operations? pp. 121-127

Stephanie C. Hofmann, John Karlsrud and Yf Reykers

Global Development Governance 2.0: Fractured accountabilities in a divided governance complex pp. 128-134

Sebastian Haug and Jack Taggart

Fit for purpose? Just Energy Transition Partnerships and accountability in international climate governance pp. 135-141

Joseph Earsom

The pursuit of positive accountability in the cyber domain pp. 142-148

Patryk Pawlak

The future(s) of global governance: A scenarios exercise pp. 149-165

Angel Saz‐Carranza, Enrique Rueda‐Sabater, Marie Vandendriessche, Carlota Moreno and Jacint Jordana

Sustainable future bonds: Boosting multilateral development banks lending and improving the global reserve system: Sustainable future bonds pp. 166-182

Marina Zucker‐Marques and Kevin P. Gallagher

Dealing with Europe's economic (in‐)security pp. 183-192

Federico Steinberg and Guntram Wolff

Ecosystem services and sustainable peace in Afghanistan: Gaps in national policy and its security implications pp. 193-203

Srinjoy Bose, Maxim Mancino and Dahlia Simangan

Evaluating international AI skills policy: A systematic review of AI skills policy in seven countries pp. 204-217

Eryn Rigley, Caitlin Bentley, Joshua Krook and Sarvapali D. Ramchurn