Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

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…
24 July 2023
On both sides of the Atlantic, political leaders are attacking the integrity of international arbitration as a mechanism for resolving disputes, especially between private parties…
18 July 2023
Les Coleman finds the UN-led framework to tackle global warming has failed dismally, and calls for a practical, devolved approach. The next climate change Conference will be held…
14 July 2023
MSc International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies student, Kubilay Ogutcu interviews Dr. Kristin Surak about her upcoming book The Golden Passport: Global…
12 July 2023
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik and Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert identify a problematic lack of engagement with AI in the humanitarian strategies of donor countries and offer a set of…
10 July 2023
Duncan Green relays insights from a veteran humanitarian practitioner. Just got back from Dakar, and a great few days with the latest cohort of leaders from UN, INGOs and Red…
03 July 2023
Recent advances in international coordination of climate and trade policies conceal gridlock on an emerging and highly controversial policy option: border carbon adjustments.…
29 June 2023
No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World by Mathias Thaler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022. 352 pp., £80 hardcover 9781316516478, £26.99 paperback…
27 June 2023
Duncan Green reports on the feasibility of welcome proposals for reforming the aging bank.  Spent a half day at ODI recently discussing the reform of the…
26 June 2023
Regenerating ecologies and economies for society: Challenges and guideposts for Ukraine and beyond. With the proposed costs of post-conflict reconstruction in the war-torn country…