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04 September 2017
This is the last of a four-part series of posts on Poland’s, Hungary’s and the Czech Republic’s perilous play with the EU’s refugee relocation agreement.…
01 September 2017
Young people feel that they’re not being listened to by global decision makers. But with over half of the world’s population under the age of 30, it won’t be…
01 September 2017
The Law of Deliberative Democracy by Ron Levy and Graeme Orr. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016. 239 pp, £110 hardcover 9780415705004, £39.99 e-book 9781315890159 With…
31 August 2017
Mark Lorch explores why conspiracy theories spring up with such regularity. I’m sitting on a train when a group of football fans streams on. Fresh from the game –…
31 August 2017
This is the third of a four-part series of posts on Poland’s, Hungary’s and the Czech Republic’s perilous play with the EU’s refugee relocation agreement.…
30 August 2017
Aid donors, governments and the United Nations have made many commitments to gender equality. Their actions have been less impressive. Across United Nations programmes, gender…
29 August 2017
This is the second of a four-part series of posts on Poland’s, Hungary’s and the Czech Republic’s perilous play with the EU’s refugee relocation agreement…
29 August 2017
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap by Yuen Yuen Ang. 2016. Cornell University Press, Cornell Studies in Political Economy. We chose to highlight this book for the World…
24 August 2017
This is the first of a four-part series of posts on Poland’s, Hungary’s and the Czech Republic’s perilous play with the EU’s refugee relocation agreement.…
24 August 2017
What we eat matters to us – but we’re not sure whether it ought to matter to anyone else. We generally insist that our diets are our business and resent being told to…