Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

08 March 2018
Following the #MeToo revelations, journalist and creative writer Sian Norris let her imagination run wild to envision a global feminist revolution. This is her dispatch from a…
07 March 2018
Tracy Bhamra explores the impact of the late Trevor Baylis. Trevor Baylis, who has died aged 80, left his school in London at 15 without any qualifications. But he went on to…
07 March 2018
Mihai Chihaia analyses Russia’s current approach towards North Africa highlighting the main avenues of cooperation with the countries in the region. North Africa has long been an…
06 March 2018
In light of recent divestment announcements by insurers from coal, Lisa Benjamin examines emerging legal obligations for institutional investors in high-emitting industries such…
06 March 2018
Global Cities and Global Order by Simon Curtis. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016. 240 pp, £55 hardcover 9780198744016 During the last decade, there has been an extraordinary…
28 February 2018
Joel Sandhu introduces the Global Governance Futures 2030 – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues and outlines its approach.  Thanks to rapid advances in technology…
28 February 2018
“The urge to censor is greatest where debate is most disquieting and orthodoxy most entrenched…” –Chief Judge Alex Kozinski In September of last year, conservative speaker, Ben…
27 February 2018
James Parisot and Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. introduce their book exploring America’s responses to its loss of hegemony. The world appears to be shifting into an era of…
27 February 2018
Militarised Responses to Transnational Organised Crime: The War on Crime. Tuesday Reitano, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo and Sasha Jesperson (eds). Palgrave Macmillan. 2018. In…
26 February 2018
Corporations and governments around the world increasingly stand accused of causing or failing to prevent the damaging effects of climate change. Test cases are being…