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Jehanzeb Khan and Annette Fisher argue that ‘Doing Development Differently’ is as much about the people and processes as it is about programme design and technical…
We're living in a new era of proxy warfare, where multiple powers fund local proxies with disastrous consequences. We need to break the cycle.
The end of the Cold War was one…
Walter Quattrociocchi explores the growing fight back against fake news.
The spread of false information has always been with us, but it is something we face every day in the…
Donald Trump will probably go down in history as having pulled the biggest political con job in US electoral politics. With no coherent ideology but lies and false promises, he…
Austin Schiano explores the link between human rights and renewable energy.
2016 was the year that, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF), renewable energy finally became a…
Citizenship is a duty that transcends borders. Jennifer Allsopp reports for 50.50 from the first day of of the 2017 Nobel Women's Initiative conference.
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The UK-EU financial settlement risks becoming a toxic stumbling block in Brexit negotiations. But there are actually much more important issues to discuss. To diffuse the issue,…
A Revolution Undone: Egypt’s Road Beyond Revolt by H.A. Hellyer. London: Hurst, 2016. 251 pp, £20 hardcover 9781849046848
There is much to commend in H.A. Hellyer…
Duncan Green explores a new report on the changing face of global civic activism.
Bumped into Tom Carothers in the DFID foyer the other day, and he handed me a copy of a…
Paula Serafini explores the paradox of Trump's wealth, the lack of social mobility, and voting patterns in contemporary America.
Commentators tend to agree on two main reasons…