Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

06 February 2017
Jason Miklian explains what the election of Donald Trump means for the future of peacebuilding as the world takes an illiberal turn, and how businesses can carve new roles at the…
06 February 2017
Moonhawk Kim explores the breakdown of America's post-war domestic-international bargain. Ruggie’s (1982) “embedded liberalism” provided the framework for…
03 February 2017
Kevin P. Gallagher's commentary for the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) series explores China's growing passion for green finance, south-south development cooperation,…
02 February 2017
How should universities respond to the global rise in populism? “We are going to survive this phase, because basic education and research – which is based on facts…
01 February 2017
Stefan Kossoff (DFID’s governance czar) reviews the new WDR, published this week. For those of us working on governance this week’s publication of the 2017 World…
31 January 2017
Unless life is uncomfortable, there’s no room for transformation. Does it matter that Micah Johnson was killed by a robot, albeit one controlled by human hands? Johnson shot…
30 January 2017
The years since 9/11 have cast a dark shadow over global politics in many respects. But we have the option of recalling where the pursuit of authoritarianism leads. The…
26 January 2017
A powerful new report finally kills off any remaining intellectual veil for a broken economics that is breaking society. Sometimes an ideology is so brilliantly propagated that…
25 January 2017
Hakan Altinay explores the transformative potential of conversations. A conversation is a ubiquitous activity in which we engage without much reflection. It may nevertheless be…
24 January 2017
Gramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and its Narratives. Kate Crehan. Duke University Press. 2016. In Gramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and its Narratives, Kate Crehan…