Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

20 January 2017
As we move towards a jobless world, Davos participants give their views on what it may mean for our wellbeing and our identities. “If you went back 10,000 years and spoke…
17 January 2017
When a system calls itself democracy, but forces increasing parts of the demos (people) to live under poverty, its own central concept gradually becomes hollow. Since early…
16 January 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 January 2017
How does received knowledge vis-a-vis our financial system emerge and change? Here, Michael Lee explores how ideas about the economy have come into existence and gained acceptance…
12 January 2017
"The Chinese economy is undergoing unprecedented and profound changes." To open up or to close? To advance or go back? The global economy is currently at the crossroads…
11 January 2017
Zygmunt understood the crisis of a social democracy built on solid jobs, fixed identities and bounded within nation states, and paved the way for thinking about the need for…
11 January 2017
The Jungle in Calais is closed and the deal with Turkey is in place. Is the refugee crisis over? Not at all. The refugee crisis is first and foremost about refugees, not about…
10 January 2017
Green Growth: Ideology, Political Economy and the Alternatives. Gareth Dale, Manu V. Mathai and Jose Puppim de Oliveira (eds). Zed Books. 2016. While there is broad consensus on…
09 January 2017
Over the last week the ever more shrill criticism of international aid found a new target - the practice of giving money directly to some of the poorest and most vulnerable people…
09 January 2017
Are Donald Trump's selections for his cabinet and other top administration positions indicative of a man who is ready to "drain the swamp?" Is the president-elect…