Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

29 February 2024
Briony Hannell explores the positive influence of the microblogging platform. Like so many millennials, my teenage years on the multimedia microblogging platform, Tumblr…
28 February 2024
Robert H. Wade on why repeated predictions of the end of the dollars hegemony are probably, once again, too soon. The air rebounds with claims of “the end of dollar hegemony…
22 February 2024
Sander van der Linden, Lee McIntyre and Stephan Lewandowsky argue that people can be inoculated against the effects of disinformation.  With over half the world’s…
21 February 2024
Ubuntu is based on a simple yet radical premise, that there are no primary differences between people. If we take that message into our politics and legal systems we can address…
20 February 2024
Jess Crombie explores data from new research into the humanitarian and development sector's enduring problem. The term Poverty Porn (coined in 1985); the widely criticised (though…
14 February 2024
Kristian Alexander draws inspiration from youth activists around the world for those looking to advocate in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). MENA youth part of global…
13 February 2024
One of the best things about the course I give on ‘Influencing for Senior Leaders: Analysis, Strategy, and Practice’, with Global Policy's Tom Kirk, is the anecdotes…
12 February 2024
Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh and Muhammad Ittefaq discuss climate activism in the Global South, highlighting the need for advocating eco-friendly agri-livestock practices and cleaner…
09 February 2024
Global Financial Networked Governance: The Power of the Financial Stability Board and its Limits, by Peter Knaack. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2023. 224 pp., £120 hardcover…
07 February 2024
Farida T. Bena explores steps towards a UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation. A few months ago, I interviewed Abdul Muheet Chowdhary (below…