Hanging in The Balance The UK's snap election backfires and adds more uncertainty to Brexit

In the British general election held on June 8, no party was able to claim an outright victory by securing a majority of seats in the House of Commons, the lower chamber of the UK parliament.     

Opportunities Beckon

<正>Yantai makes a name for itself along the Belt and Road In 2013,Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the Belt and Road Initiative,comprising the development plans of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century     

Evidence in the Networked Governance of Regional Decarbonisation: A Critical Appraisal

This paper examines the use of evidence in collaborative policy making focusing on the challenges of implementing national decarbonisation policies in regional areas. Its case study of a staged policy intervention to promote the ‘transition to a low carbon economy’ in Victoria's coal‐dependent Latrobe Valley reveals the selective use of evidence to support policy directions that emerged from the interaction of policy knowledge and the political mood. The paper shows how local conditions can be manipulated to enable the production of evidence consistent with the policy objective, but also suggests that despite combining orchestrated evidence with customised forms of networked governance, it is not possible to suppress or deflect unresolved political disagreements.