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Is Greece on the road to economic recovery? In this interview, Lapavitsas suggests it is simply ludicrous on the part of a former left party to speak of a neoliberal success story…
The challenges that Europe faces both from within and from outside require immediate, concerted counter-efforts. While efforts to advance the European economic architecture are…
The end game is clear: Assad, Russia and Iran will emerge victorious.
The conflict in Syria has been the most vicious in contemporary history, creating a geo-political hall of…
Andrew Fanning finds that no country currently meets the basic needs of its citizens at a globally sustainable level. Here he reflects on a further insight from that research…
Only a handful of European states are currently governed by left-wing governments, and several of the traditionally largest left-wing parties, such as the Socialist Party in…
Corinna Lathan explores how beyond the global conversations Davos brought home some very personal reflections.
Last year when I was in Davos, I received a text from my 11-year-old…
Imagine a world where every country has not only complied with the Paris climate agreement but has moved away from fossil fuels entirely. How would such a change affect global…
Too small to influence economics, too bureaucratic to be social movements, banned from politics and removed from the societies they’re trying to change, where do NGOs go next?
On…
The juncture of big and open data informs areas as diverse as artificial intelligence, agriculture, and public health, and promises to transform our ability to tackle global…
Some years ago, the distinguished economist Richard Baldwin said: “Regional trade liberalisation sweeps the globe like wildfire”. He was right. Preferential trade agreements (PTAs…