Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

18 July 2017
The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe by Joseph E. Stiglitz. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. 416 pp, $28.95 / £13.99 hardcover 978-0-393-…
17 July 2017
Slavery is about power and its unequal distribution. Anti-Slavery International has released a new charter that recognises that truth and lays out what's needed to start…
17 July 2017
This interview was conducted by Joel Sandhu for the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to…
13 July 2017
Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale has remained popular since its publication in 1985. It has been translated into dozens of languages, made into a film in…
13 July 2017
Decisive action should be taken by the G20 to assess the impact, legitimacy and effectiveness of the whole system of international rules designed to combat money laundering and…
12 July 2017
Published in the run up to the recent G20 summit, Gregory Chin explores the hopes for Sino-German cooperation. The world media's attention is focused on the on-going G20…
12 July 2017
Branko Milanovic explores the effects of aid at both ends of the transfer. There are many arguments against foreign aid. Angus Deaton has forcefully argued that foreign aid, by…
11 July 2017
Nina Hall weighs up the power and perils of digital activism. Donald Trump is a master Tweeter, Breitbart has been a powerful disseminator of fake news, and Trump’s campaign…
10 July 2017
One of the more surprising aspects of Labour’s strong performance in the UK’s general election is that it came at a time when social democratic parties have…
10 July 2017
The concept of imperialism has fallen out of the political lexicon of many leftists in the West, with some deeming the concept irrelevant for understanding the dynamics of…