Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

01 August 2022
Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights by Nina Reiners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022. 216 pp., £85 hardcover 978-1-108-84554-0 Who makes human rights…
29 July 2022
Freeze! The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War by Henry Richard Maar III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 300 pp., $51.95 hardcover…
28 July 2022
As all sports, women’s football is in its essence and backgrounds political. The Women’s European Football Championships in England 2022 are no exception. They clearly manifest…
27 July 2022
Sam Pryke reviews the literature on the supposed demise of globalisation to argue that it was and should be viewed as a process, rather than an endpoint we have been heading…
26 July 2022
Michael Bröning argues that it is increasingly unclear how the United Nation's global governance ambitions can be squared with the fragmenting political reality. Figuratively…
25 July 2022
The culminating piece in the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project's commentary series provides an overview of the New Development Bank's role in the…
19 July 2022
Almost all qualitative and quantitative research into human society involves the participation of other humans. However, they are frequently rendered passively in research outputs…
15 July 2022
Sharanya Sekaram on the fear activists feel due to recent developments in the USA and the hope they must take from elsewhere.  I recall watching the passage of the 2018 Irish…
13 July 2022
Through the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become clear that an effective response to an emergency of this nature goes beyond the health system. While strengthening health…
07 July 2022
Oxfam’s Amy Croome explores a tricky issue for aid organizations like Oxfam. At the Grand Bargain Meeting this week, signatories will reflect on the role of…