Global Policy is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 based at the London School of Economics and Political Science focusing on the "point where ideas and policy meet", published in association with Wiley-Blackwell.

The journal was launched at the 4th Global Public Policy Network conference at the London School of Economics and Political Science on Monday 22 March 2010, with near simultaneous launch events held in Beijing and Brussels. The theme of the one day conference was "Global Challenges: Global Impact". The General Editors are David Held

David Held

David Held is a British political theorist active in the field of international relations. He will be chair of politics and international relations at Durham University from January 2012 and is currently Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Centre for the Study of...

 and Patrick Dunleavy

Patrick Dunleavy

Patrick Dunleavy is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy within the Government Department of the London School of Economics and the director of the Master of Public Administration Programme Patrick Dunleavy (b. 1952) is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy within the...

.

Its first issue included articles by UK Development Secretary Douglas Alexander

Douglas Alexander

Douglas Garven Alexander is a British Labour Party politician, who is currently the Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the shadow cabinet of Ed Miliband. He has held cabinet posts under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, including Secretary of State for Scotland and...

, General David Petraeus

David Petraeus

David Howell Petraeus is the current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, sworn in on September 6, 2011. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus was a four-star general serving over 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander...

, Head of US Central Command, Mary Kaldor

Mary Kaldor

Mary Kaldor is a British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, where she is also the Director of its Centre for the Study of Global Governance. She has been a key figure in the development of cosmopolitan democracy...

 and Ian Goldin

Ian Goldin

Ian Andrew Goldin took up his most recent position as Director of Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, in September 2006. He is the Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development, and holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford....

 and Tiffany Vogel of Oxford University.

The journal's first edition defines its six main foci

1. Globally relevant risks and collective action problems
2. International policy coordination
3. Normative theories of global governance
4. The change from national-level to 'bloc'-level policy making
5. The transition from single-polar to multipolar governance
6. Innovations in global governance

External links

• Global Policy Page at Wiley-Blackwell