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What is common in the production of an earring from broken porcelain cups and plates, an evening dress form curtains, a handbag from the cassettes of audio tapes, a lampshade out of discarded Coca Cola glass bottles, or to decorate jackets with worn but functional scarves? All of these activities represent a form of the […]
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Institutional investors have become some of the most influential actors in modern capitalism. They decide where pension savings are invested, which companies receive capital, and increasingly shape corporate responses to challenges ranging from executive pay to climate change. Yet only a few decades ago, many institutional shareholders were criticised as passive or “absentee owners”. Today, […]
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“With all the bad news on climate science and climate governance lately, how do you find hope to persevere?” In the past decade, I have been asked this question with increasing frequency in my climate governance lectures. It usually comes from a disillusioned student struggling to process new developments about climate science projections or climate […]
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A society’s true measure of success is its capacity to deal with failure. In the mid–seventeenth century, this is just what we can observe in the city of Amsterdam, at the time one of the world’s prime commercial hubs. In the early modern Dutch Republic, a set of legal, cultural, and institutional innovations resulted in […]
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Among the many different ways that humans interact with the ocean, submarine operations are instrumental in furthering those activities. Submarines are deployed in scientific exploration, seabed exploitation, the development of critical infrastructure and criminal activities. Above all, submarines hold military and strategic significance for States and their navies. Yet the regulation of submarines under international […]
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How do we prevent genocide? The modern world has been plagued with this ‘crimes of crimes’, that has claimed many millions of lives over the past century or more. In 1948, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, the international community committed to preventing genocide through the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of […]
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While infrastructure development has long been associated with social progress, economic development and advanced living standards, it has likewise given rise to challenges including disruption, environmental harm and inequity. On the one hand, infrastructure development has been described as presenting both ‘immaterial ideals and material notions necessary to change the world’.[1] It speaks to both […]
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Calls to establish international administrations have been made in numerous contemporary contexts, including Afghanistan, the Congo, Haiti, Kosovo, Iraq, Liberia, Libya, Palestine, South Sudan, Syria, Timor-Leste or Yemen. More recently, they have been made in the context of the war in the Middle East (to “administer” Palestine) or in the Ukraine. Some of these projects […]
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