DISPATCHES showcases the commentary and public-facing work of SCW Observatory researchers and guest contributors. We are happy to consider proposals for articles and to host guest contributors. For more information and to submit an idea, see our submissions page.

Doing it Differently? Rising Powers and Global Summitry
By Tom CHODOR
Global Policy Journal, 17 November 2023
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The G20 May Be a Talk Fest, But It’s a Talkfest We Need At a Time of Growing Division
By Tom CHODOR
The Conversation, 15 November 2022
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Socially Distant Global Governance
By Tom CHODOR
Global Policy Journal, 15 November 2023
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Can the US compete with China's Belt & Road Initiative?
By Maxilian MAYER, Gedaliah AFTERMAN, and Narayanappa JANARDHAN
Responsible Statecraft, 29 September 2023
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Geostrategic decoupling: How US-China rivalry is shaping a new international division of labour 
By Steve ROLF and Seth SCHINDLER
14 April 2023
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Logistical flows, frictions, and ‘contact zones’ 
By Louis CYUZUZO
6 March 2023
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Discussions on Pacific aid
By Hannah McNICOL, writing for the Griffith Asia Institute
6 February 2023
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The emergent multipolar order: The G2, "‘BRIS’ and Global China
By Seth SCHINDLER, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
12 December 2022
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What would Julius Nyerere think about CWII?
By Gilead TERI & Seth SCHINDLER, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
17 November 2022
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FAILED INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE PROMISE OF DEVELOPMENT IN GEORGIA
Dispatch Series on Industrial Policy in Geoeconomic Restructuring (2 of 4)
By Lela REKHVIASHVILI and Evelina GAMBINO, 25 April 2024
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A REGULATIONIST PERSPECTIVE ON INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN THE US AND THE EU
Dispatch Series on Industrial Policy in Geoeconomic Restructuring (1 of 4)
By David KARAS, 11 April 2024
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INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN GEOECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING: A DISPATCH SERIES FROM EAST EUROPEAN AUTHORS  
Dispatch Series on Industrial Policy in Geoeconomic Restructuring (Introduction)
By Agnes GAGYI, Nina DJUKANOVIĆ, Evelina GAMBINO, Tamás GERÖCS , David KARAS, Lela REKHVIASHVILI, Linda SZABÓ, 11 April 2024
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BRAZIL IN THE “SECOND” COLD WAR: NAVIGATING US-CHINA FAULT LINES  
By Henoch Gabriel MANDELBAUM
22 January 2024
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THE G20 WILL STRUGGLE TO ADVANCE ITS POLICY AGENDA
By Tom CHODOR
Oxford Analytica Expert Briefing, 23 December 2023
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Implications for the Global South of US-China Rivalry in State Platform Capitalism 
By Richard HEEKS and Seth SCHINDLER
9 November 2023
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The Global Summitry Circus
By Isabelle ZHU-MAGUIRE and Tom CHODOR
Global Policy Journal, 7 December 2023
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Latin American and the Global Cold War
By Hannah McNICOL, University of Manchester and University of Melbourne
12 October 2022
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Where are we heading? Eine junge Perspektive
By Lukas Hochscheidt, Leonie Hopgood, Philip Nock, Frederik Schmitz, Maximilian Schranner
49Security, 2022
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Über die Zukunft gibt es keine Tatsachen, nur Interpretationen (There are no facts about the future, only interpretations)
By Philip NOCK & Maximilian SCHRANNER
Summer of Security, 2022, LINK