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When World Leaders Meet: Handshakes and Snubs

GLI G7 Team
26th May 2017 This weekend the 43rd G7 summit takes place in Taormina, Italy. Staff and students attending the summit are working as policy analysts with Sheffield University's Global Learning Opportunities in the Social Sciences (GLOSS) initiative....

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G7 Bounce? When Elections and Summits Clash

GLI G7 Team
25th May 2017 This weekend the 43rd G7 summit takes place in Taormina, Italy. Staff and students attending the summit are working as policy analysts with Sheffield University's Global Learning Opportunities in the Social Sciences (GLOSS) initiative....

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Manchester Attack: Now is the Time to Properly Talk about ‘Radicalisation’

Hilary Pilkington
25th May 2017 Hilary Pilkington argues that we must not shy away from the difficult conversations to come. It can be hard to know what to say at a time like this. In these hours when the same words – terrorism, security, threat, radicalisation – will...

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Our World of Plenty is on the Brink of Unprecedented Famine. We Must Act Now

Winnie Byanyima
25th May 2017 Winnie Byanyima calls for urgent action over food insecurity. We all celebrated. Poverty in the world halved in just two decades – historic success, humankind at its best, a world altogether more free, less exposed to disease, less violent....

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Why is life in Fragile/Conflict States not more ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’? New research programme on ‘Public Authority’

Duncan Green
24th May 2017 Duncan Green explores a new research programme on public authority at LSE. Thomas Hobbes argued that states are essential to guarantee security. In their absence there would be a ‘war of all against all’ in which life would be ‘...

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The Wrongs of Counter-Violence

Paul Rogers
24th May 2017 In the event of a major ISIS-inspired action in Britain, what principles do far-sighted – and brave – politicians need to observe? First published on 20 January 2017. "A few months before the 7/7 attacks in London in July 2005...

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Caught Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Effects of Greece's Loss of Sovereignty

C.J. Polychroniou
23rd May 2017 C.J. Polychroniou argues that Syriza is a political case study that should provide much food for thought to all radical movements, organizations and parties. For the last several months, Greece's international creditors -- the European Union (EU...

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