Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

09 November 2018
Cara Stauß, a representative of the German state of Baden-Württemberg to the European Union, explores the role regions and cities can play addressing global challenges.  1.…
08 November 2018
Karen Yeung and Peter Mills argue that we need to start thinking now about what might be good and bad reasons to preselect certain characteristics of future people. ‘…
08 November 2018
Duncan Green explores the aid sector's enduring blind spot. I’ve spotted a recurring problem with the way the aid sector talks about fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS). …
07 November 2018
Higher education, although clearly not a government priority, is becoming a bargaining chip as the UK considers its future outside the EU. Anne Corbett examines the UK government’…
06 November 2018
Oliver Taherzadeh and Benedict Probst weigh in on eating less meat to address climate change. Here we go again. The “sceptical environmentalist”, Bjorn Lomborg, has returned to…
06 November 2018
This week, Lukas Schlogl and Andy Sumner up their special series on the future of economic development, work, and wages in developing countries. We draw some…
05 November 2018
Marina Costa Esteves Coutinho comments on the rise of old messages in Brazil's recent elections.  The result of Brazil’s latest national election follows the current…
01 November 2018
The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration: Politics, Law, and Unintended Consequences by Taylor St John. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018. 304 pp., £60 hardcover 9780198789918…
01 November 2018
Observers have noted we are now in the midst of a “Fourth Industrial Revolution” whereby new digital technologies and big data both offer the potential to address longstanding…
31 October 2018
Richard Falk's lecture on 'World Order in the Age of Trump and Trumpism' at West Chester University, October 24, 2018. The title requires a few words of explanation. By the ‘Age…