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Global trends, values, and ethics

Thong Nguyen (CCEIA): Of All Possible Future Worlds: Global Trends, Values, and Ethics. Jason Miklian (PRIO): The Past, Present and Future of the Liberal Peace. Yuta Kamahara (Yokohama) and Yuko Kasuya (Keio): The State of Malapportionment in the World: One Person, One Vote? Matthew D. Stephen and Michael Zurn (WZB): Contested World Orders: Rising Powers, Non-State Actors, and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation-state. Emily Hunter (UNSW): From Nuremberg to the Hague: Establishing the Legitimacy of International Legality. Stop trying to save the world: Michael Hobbes on how big ideas are destroying international development (and more). It's time to rethink how we do development: A group of development experts issues a plea for reform. From The Monkey Cage, a special series on failed states. Eric Posner on the twilight of human rights law. What is going on in this place we call a world? Adam Garfinkle on how the state and the state system alike are in trouble, and the reasons may go deeper than most suspect. The humanitarian future: Can humanitarian agencies still fly the flag of high principle, or are they just relics of an imperial model of charity? With battle of ideas won, debate on responsibility to protect about action: Adam Lupel interviews Simon Adams, executive director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. Every day, in every way, wealthier societies get better and better — with just a few exceptions. From the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, ed. Ian Hurd, Ian Johnstone, and Jacob Katz Cogan, here is the entry on Supranational Organizations by Peter L. Lindseth. Daniel W. Drezner on five known unknowns about the future of the global economy. Zack Beauchamp on what countries around the globe see as “the greatest threat in the world”. Charles Kurzman on world values lost in translation.