This month marks ten years since the adoption of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Yet there is little cause for celebration: progress has been dismal. Benjamin Faude and Jack Taggart argue that the governance of the goals has undermined progress. They warn that rather than achieving transformative change, such governance risks entrenching the beleaguered status quo
Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy, Queen’s University Belfast
Jack is also a Research Fellow at Durham University’s Global Policy Institute and a Research Associate of the Second Cold War Observatory.
Before joining Queen’s, he was a Research Associate at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies, University of Cambridge.
Jack's research examines the politics of global development, the dynamics of global governance, the rise of state capitalism, alongside the political economy of global environmental politics.
His research has been published in various leading journals, including the Review of International Political Economy, the European Journal of International Relations, the Review of International Studies, Global Environmental Politics, the Journal of Development Studies, and Progress in Human Geography, among others.
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