Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

11 August 2023
The 'Global South' has never been easy to define. Grouping such a diverse range of places together under a single label can seem simplistic. That's particularly true at a time…
09 August 2023
Measuring progress by Gross Domestic Product leads straight to gender injustice, austerity and environmental ruin. Anam Parvez Butt and Alex Bush introduce a new Oxfam discussion…
08 August 2023
The UK will extract as much oil and gas from the North Sea as possible, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said last week as he announced more than 100 new drilling licenses. Only a few…
07 August 2023
Europe is placing insurmountable barriers in front of Africans trying to get visas to visit. This policy is denying people opportunities and doing Europe more harm than good…
01 August 2023
The ESRS has been hailed as innovative, a watershed. We study its innovativeness relative to existing corporate sustainability policies and find that its not innovative in the…
01 August 2023
Elise Stephenson and Susan Harris Rimmer explore new research on diversity within intelligence agencies and its implications. In recent years, many global intelligence agencies…
31 July 2023
David J. Hunter, Kyriaki Nanou and Heather Lodge report on how trade and health policy can collaborate. The Global Policy Institute (GPI) at Durham University hosted and…
31 July 2023
China and Latin America: Development, Agency, and Geopolitics by Chris Alden and Alvaro Mendez. London: Bloomsbury 2023. 281 pp., £70 hardcover 9781786992536, £22.99 paperback…
28 July 2023
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik discusses the broader implications of evolving AI for humanitarian action, aid work, and aid workers. Generative AI: From same, same but different to…
25 July 2023
How to Engage Policy Makers with your Research: The Art of Informing and Impacting Policy. Edited by Tim Vorley, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean, Syahirah Abdul Rahman. Edward Elgar…