Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

19 March 2018
Antoine Martin explores the increasingly complex relationships between cryptocurrencies and states. Looking at cryptocurrency and blockchain news this week got me thinking…
19 March 2018
Dan Banik argues that the development community must embrace the complexity of measuring success in the difficult places they work.  The history of international…
14 March 2018
Erik Brattberg argues that Trump’s trade policies threaten to undermine America’s global leadership role.  By imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, President Donald…
14 March 2018
When Zhou Xiaochuan hands over the reins of the People’s Bank of China after 15 years in control, his successor will take charge of a central bank with unprecedented global…
13 March 2018
Dan Lomas provides background to clandestine security services’ assassination attempts on foreign soil.  Whitehall sources had been claiming that the suspected…
13 March 2018
The worldview that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights promotes is the polar opposite of the one actually gaining traction today, writes Francesca Klug. She argues that…
12 March 2018
Michael Johnson gets us up to speed on President Trump's latest policy. President Donald Trump has signed an order for special tariffs of 25% on imports into the United States of…
12 March 2018
Nayef Al-Rodhan explores the evolving space security race.                               Space…
09 March 2018
Some of the most widely cited predictions of the economic effects of Brexit rely on flawed analysis, particularly of the performance of the UK after it joined the EEC, and on the…
08 March 2018
This guest post on the 'From Poverty to Power' blog by Nikki van der Gaag, Oxfam’s Director of Gender Justice and Women’s Rights. This International Women’s Day feels different to…