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Executive Summary In 2011, the international community had to mount a major relief operation to support millions threatened by hunger and starvation in the Horn of Africa. If nothing is done to increase availability of and access to food on a large scale, the recurring hunger crises felt across many…

Introduction Gas markets are in flux. In most of the OECD world, gas demand has faltered during the past years, a consequence of the ongoing financial and economic crisis. At the same time, soaring unconventional (shale) gas production, mainly in the US, coupled with increasing global capacity in…

Introduction The common dependency on energy, shared by societies around the world, entails policy challenges of global nature and scope. From dealing with the negative externalities of greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to dwindling low-cost reserves of fossil fuels in the context of massively…

Natural disasters, conflict, macroeconomic shocks and political unrest thrust tens of millions of people each year into food crises. In decades past, such crises commonly led to famines. Thankfully, true famine is rare today, due in part to substantial improvements in global food assistance policy…

Energy in Europe and Russia is in flux. The authors address key issues in this context and seek to analyze contemporary transition processes in the region's energy sector. They look at whether and how transnational policy mechanisms can generate sufficient steering capacity to address pressing…

German troops fighting the Taliban in the Hindu Kush; EU judges sitting in courts in the Balkans; UN viceroys governing parts of Oceania; American occupation of the Middle East. Amid the myriad political experiences of the post-Cold War era, the historians of the future are likely to pay particular…

Despite an emerging literature on global energy governance, there so far is no extensive intellectual rationale for it. This article seeks to fill this gap by putting forward a public policy framework to analyze global energy. With that lens, energy security relates to problems of market failure at…

Executive Summary The Protection Capacity Standby Project (ProCap) and the Gender Capacity Standby Project (GenCap) are inter-agency resources to strengthen the humanitarian system’s capacity in protection and gender. The projects maintain rosters of senior experts deployed to countries in…