Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

24 March 2017
Global Policy's General Editor Dani Rodrik discusses options for the future of Europe. This month the European Union will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding treaty…
23 March 2017
The UNDP's Administrator Helen Clark talks to Masood Ahmed the president of the Center for Global Development on the day the Trump Administration proposed considerable cuts to…
23 March 2017
Aengus Collins explores the potential consequences of our technological revolution. Any change can be unsettling, but changes as profound as those being unleashed by the current…
22 March 2017
Quotas aren't anathema to meritocracy: they increase competence levels by displacing mediocre men, write Tim Besley, Olle Folke, Torsten Persson and Johanna Rickne. A common…
22 March 2017
Writing for The Conversation, Joseph Aldy explores the future of climate change measurements under Trump. President Trump is expected to issue an executive order soon to reverse…
20 March 2017
One of the most panoramic, as well as readable analyses of our time’s conundrums can be found in David Held’s Global Politics After 9/11: Failed Wars, Political…
20 March 2017
This interview was conducted by Joel Sandhu for the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to…
16 March 2017
Steve Baines explores the possibility that all good things really can go together. These are definitely not the research findings I expected to be presenting. The data in front of…
16 March 2017
Human rights regimes such as the European Convention on Human Rights are unlikely to shield citizens against the wave of authoritarianism threatening liberal democracies. Shortly…
15 March 2017
The 12th March was the world wide web’s 28th birthday. Here’s a message from its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on how the web has evolved, and what we must do to…