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Recent Blogposts

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Legitimacy at the Core: Transformative Green Industrial Policy for a Just Mineral Extraction

Anabel Marin, Santiago Cunial - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The global race for minerals is accelerating. Minerals like lithium, copper, and nickel are increasingly treated as the “new oil” of the energy transition and other global agendas. From critical mineral alliances to supply chain pacts, consumer countries are seeking “secure and sustainable” flows of these resources.
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Development Cooperation at a Tipping Point: How do Policy Norms Break?

Stephan Klingebiel, Andy Sumner - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The global system of development cooperation is entering uncertain territory. For decades, multilateralism and global solidarity shaped the expectations of how global development policy should be organised and justified. These norms provided a degree of stability, even if practice often fell short. In a new Discussion Paper we argue that those assumptions can no longer be taken for granted.
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Asia-Pacific Middle Powers: Holding the Line in Global Development Governance

Taekyoon Kim - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
We are living through what Antonio Gramsci once called an interregnum – a moment when the old order is collapsing but a new one has yet to be born. The liberal international order (LIO), once anchored by the United States and European leadership, is fraying under multiple pressures: authoritarian resurgence, populist nationalism, widening global inequality, accelerating climate change, and recurring global health crises.
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