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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman. New York: Custom House 2017. 352 pp, $24.99 hardcover 9780062654618, $9.99 e-book 9780062654458
The war…
The wheels have started rolling on China’s globalisation project, and it is less a case of globalisation with Chinese characteristics than it is a complete remodeling of the…
Under the presidency of Vladimir Putin, Russia has become increasingly isolated from the norms and mechanisms of international society. This policy brief explores this trend…
The 2018 G7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec was thrown into disarray by President Trump’s imposition of punitive tariffs on other members of the group. Much of the action centred on…
Rapid advances in technologies – in areas such as robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, synthetic biology and clean technologies – are fundamentally changing…
With the recent diplomatic fluctuations between both the US and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and the US and Iran, the issue of nuclear proliferation has…
This policy brief examines the environmental theme of the 44th G7, how countries have previously addressed the issues of climate, energy and the environment, and the novel…
The 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represented a concerted effort by the global community to recognise and tackle worldwide injustices, in the form of poverty,…
Feminists have long argued that gender relations need to be taken seriously as an integral element of the analysis of every social problem, rather than being ‘added on’. In…
Jorge Moreira da Silva, Director of Development Co-operation, OECD makes a plea to the international donor community to make good on its promises to do more to support small…