Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

03 March 2017
Andrew Chakhoyan asks what can the U.N. learn from the world of start-ups? Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced “Facebook's plan to bring the global community together…
03 March 2017
In part 1, Nikolaos Karagiannis briefly presents the main features and concerns associated with financialization in the present era of neoliberal globalization. The era of…
02 March 2017
So far, the nature of Christine Lagarde’s speeches and the discussions I had with Fund staff this week suggest that there is more work to be done. Recent commentary on…
02 March 2017
Matt Haikin, an ICT for Development (ICT4D) practitioner, summarizes a new paper on digital development in East Africa reports, and the challenges for Oxfam and other…
01 March 2017
Yolanda Jinxin Ma explores how open data could benefit the government of China. In the past decade, open data has grown out of a conceptual discussion into a global movement.…
27 February 2017
Helen Clark examines trends in global governance and considers what is needed going forward to tackle issues beyond the capacity of individual nation states to resolve on their…
20 February 2017
Duncan Green explores a new paper from IDS' Robin Luckham on the contested concept of security. I have been known in the past to be a little snippy about the writing style of…
20 February 2017
C.J. Polychroniou and Nikolaos Karagiannis explore Syriza’s inability to resist the pressures of the international creditors. It's been seven years since the…
17 February 2017
Mark Zuckerberg has posted a manifesto on his view of social media's role in global events and what they can do about it. To our community, On our journey to connect the world…
17 February 2017
As India continues to seek membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, Kanica Rakhra reflects on current controls regarding the trade of nuclear material. She argues that these…