The reports of globalization's death are greatly exaggerated. We often hear that globalization is dying, especially when trade wars and anti-globalization groups make it seem that way. But the truth is quite different. Lukas Linsi shows that companies still invest in other countries, even during tough times like the US-China trade war, and that globalization is alive and changing, not dying.

How does foreign policy branding react to human rights crises? Drawing on Sweden's feminist foreign policy as a compelling example, we are joined by Isabelle Karlsson to discuss how legitimacy is crafted through 'good' activism, knowledge branding, and alignment with solidarity discourses, lifting the veil on strategic communication practices in global policy in today's attention-driven world.

In 2009, the Netherlands implemented an innovative approach to addressing population decline with their Population Decline Action Plan. Joined by Marco Bontje (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), we discuss how and why the policy was introduced, its evolution over a decade, and the reasons behind its termination in 2019. We'll also explore regional policies that have emerged since and what they mean for the future governance of population shrinkage in the Netherlands.