Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

28 June 2018
Florence Crick, Kate Gannon and Estelle Rouhaud highlight the need to support private sector adaption in semi-arid lands or risk missing opportunities for development. Around a…
27 June 2018
James Pamment has written that for most of the 20th century the term public diplomacy was associated with the term propaganda. According to the Oxford Dictionary propaganda…
27 June 2018
Energy poverty is a global problem, as more than a billion people continue to live without access to electricity and almost three billion still have no clean cooking energy.…
25 June 2018
On April 12, 2018, it was reported that United States President Donald Trump had ordered his officials to study the possibility of having the U.S. rejoin the Trans Pacific…
22 June 2018
This paper explores and reflects on the subtle changes in managerial attitudes evolving in all continents as the world faces a natural slow-down in economic growth as nations…
21 June 2018
Owing to major demographic shifts and the dynamics of urbanization, future large-scale infectious disease outbreaks will likely be mostly urban in nature. Municipal leaders are…
20 June 2018
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 10 years…
20 June 2018
Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was an inside job to the idea that reptilian humanoids rule…
19 June 2018
This month’s African Union Summit is poised to probe widespread corruption but a closer look at East Africa also reveals other pressing issues, not least rising political…
18 June 2018
This post is the third in a five part series from Jakob Vestergaard exploring reforms to the EMU that the Commission is hoping that member states will commit to at the end of…