Global Trends: Prospects for Development and Peace
How can international cooperation succeed amid changing global power structures?
To address this question, the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) and the Development and Peace Foundation (sef:) are launching the new publication series “Global Trends: Prospects for Development and Peace”. The series demonstrates that rules-based multilateral cooperation remains necessary – and possible.

Multilateral Cooperation for People and Planet
Global Trends: Prospects for Development and Peace, Issue I, 2026
Now available as PDF
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS
- Previous series -
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS links current developments to long-term trends in global society. Based on facts and figures, it offers guidance and perspectives to policy-makers and society at large.
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS is issued by a team of co-editors from different world regions.

COVID-19 and digital authoritarianism: Identifying risks and countermeasures
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS 02|2022

Climate Change, Violent Conflict and Environmental Peacebuilding: Understanding the Interlinkages
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS 01|2022

Aligning AI Governance Globally: Lessons from current practice
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS 03|2021

Let’s speak law! A call for a legally embedded multilateralism
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS 02|2021

Freeing Fiscal Space: A human rights imperative in response to COVID-19
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS 01|2021

Tech Power to the People! Democratising Cutting-edge Technologies to Serve Society
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS 03|2020

Global Trade Cooperation after COVID-19: What is the WTO’s Future?
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS 02|2020

The Future of Nuclear Arms Control: Time for an Update
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS 01|2020

Making Conflict Prevention a Concrete Reality at the UN
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS 02|2019

Mobility of Labour versus Capital: A Global Governance Perspective
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS 01|2019
The Global Refugee Crisis: Towards a just response
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS 03|2018
The UN Security Council: From a 20th century relic to effective security governance
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS 02|2018
Cooperation in a Post-Western World: Challenges and future prospects
GLOBAL TRENDS.ANALYSIS 01|2018
Global Trends
– Previous series –
Global Trends 2015
Prospects for World Society
Tobias Debiel, Michèle Roth, Cornelia Ulbert, (ed.)
May 2015
Global Trends 2013
Peace - Development - Environment
Tobias Debiel, Jochen Hippler, Michèle Roth, Cornelia Ulbert, (ed.)
October 2012





