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Why the World Bank needs to ask Jim Kim some tough questions in his Job Interview

Nadia Daar
23rd September 2016 Nadia Daar argues that Jim Kim’s upcoming interview for the position of World Bank President should be an opportunity rather than just a formality. Preparing for an interview is often traumatic – by this point I’ve done a few and...

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My Child is an Anarchist, a Feminist, a Communist

Veronica Barassi
22nd September 2016 Veronica Barassi explores digital parenthood and the everyday construction of children’s digital profiles. She argues that children’s data flows are not only connected to questions about identity and privacy, but to new questions...

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Interview – Tine de Moor

Interviewed by Tom Cassauwers
22nd September 2016 Tine De Moor is an historian whose research focuses on the commons and what she calls ‘Institutions for Collective Action’. Her work emphasises long-term and interdisciplinary approaches to history. She currently is Professor at the...

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We should Remember HG Wells for his Social Predictions, Not Just his Scientific Ones

Simon John James
21st September 2016 Simon John James argues that the political Wells still might have something to teach us. No writer is more renowned for his ability to foresee the future than HG Wells. His writing can be seen to have predicted the aeroplane, the tank, space travel...

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Plato to NATO: The Case of Our Strange Myopia

Hakan Altinay
21st September 2016 Drawing on growing evidence of our cooperative natures, Hakan Altinay argues that the Plato-to-NATO meta-narrative common to Western social science is too narrow to capture what makes us survive and thrive. There are some curious signs in the air....

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Facebook has become a public service. It needs to start acting like one.

Mayank Banerjee and Felix Light
20th September 2016 Facebook has created an echo chamber by only showing its users what they want to see, which means political polarisation, hyper-partisanship and culture wars. Facebook needs to face up to its responsibilities. This piece is part of OpenDemocracy...

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Reimagining International Development for the 21st Century

Indy Johar
19th September 2016 Indy Johar explores how international development is or at least should be changing. Having worked with various UNDP offices and other development agencies around world over the last year. — it is becoming apparent that “International...

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Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky

C.J. Polychroniou
19th September 2016 How serious of an issue is climate change? Does global warming really threaten human civilization? Can it be reversed, or is it already late? In this exclusive interview for Truthout, two scholars, Noam Chomsky, one of the world's leading public...

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Globalization and Global Political Theory

David Held and Pietro Maffettone
16th September 2016 David Held and Pietro Maffettone introduce the themes in their new edited volume ‘Global Political Theory’. It is literally impossible to shy away from global political theory. Pick-up your cell phone: where do the minerals that make-up...

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Book Review: Neoliberalism and Terror: Critical Engagements

Reviewed by Mabel González Bustelo
16th September 2016 Neoliberalism and Terror: Critical Engagements edited by Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Christopher Baker-Beall and Lee Jarvis. London/New York: Routledge, 2016, 198 pp, £95.00 hardcover 978-1-1389-5528-8 How are terrorism and neoliberalism connected...

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