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06 September 2022
Our global economic system is failing. We need a fresh start to address the inequities of the past 80 years. In 1944, with the Second World War still raging, US president Franklin…
05 September 2022
On 18 July, the EU signed a new agreement with Azerbaijan aimed at increasing the country’s gas exports to Europe. Gubad Ibadoghlu assesses what the deal means for…
02 September 2022
This blog by Maitland Murray was written as part of the LSE's DV455 MA module which GP's Online Editor co-teaches with Duncan Green. It is reposted here as its a great bit of…
01 September 2022
At the recent AU Humanitarian Summit, finding African solutions to African problems was an important theme. What will it take to walk the talk? In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia now…
31 August 2022
With Boris Johnson’s departure, the drama of the Conservative leadership election, and Keir Starmer’s declaration that “integrity matters” in politics, the question of what…
30 August 2022
Biden must release Afghanistan’s foreign reserves to alleviate suffering, argues Ecuador’s ex-central bank director. "Hell on earth.” That’s how the World Food Programme’s…
29 August 2022
What were the origins of European imperialism? Drawing on a new study, Jan P. Vogler explains that centuries of European interstate rivalries were an essential…
26 August 2022
This blog by Andreas Brox was written as part of the LSE's DV455 MA module which GP's Online Editor co-teaches with Duncan Green. It is reposted here as its a great bit of…
25 August 2022
Duncan Green urges investigators to focus on starvation methods in their extraordinary efforts to document war crimes in Ukraine and…
24 August 2022
The “living with COVID” strategy being pursued by many countries relies heavily on two key pillars. First, that vaccines continue to protect most people from severe disease. And…