New publication: Policy Innovations from the Global South

Achim Kemmerling, Hasnain Bokhari and Luicy Pedroza (eds.)
Policy Innovations from the Global South. Will the North Ever Learn?
series: International Series on Public Policy (ISPP)
Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2026
open access: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-11061-9
ISBN: 978-3-032-11060-2 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-3-032-11063-3 (softcover, to be published in 2027)
296 pages
149.79 EUR

The new book challenges the conventional assumption that policy innovation flows primarily from the Global North to the Global South. Bringing together case studies from Latin America, Africa, and Asia, the open access publication examines how ideas and innovations developed in the Global South have shaped policies and systems in the Global North – often without acknowledgement.

The volume, which features Brandt School contributors including Dr. Gift Mwonzora and Andrew Crawford, explores successful, failed, and concealed forms of policy transfer across sectors and regions, arguing that recognising innovation in the Global South is essential for effective global governance.

Across the chapters, contributors examine missed opportunities for mutual learning, hidden pathways of policy diffusion, explicit policy transfers, and the implications of these dynamics for global governance and development.

[The volume] is indispensable for scholars and practitioners in the fields of public policy, international relations, and development studies, and fills an important gap in the literature on global policy learning. (from the publisher's information)