Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

15 June 2022
Why not all leaders get a popularity boost in threatening times - and certainly not Joe Biden. It has been more than hundred days since Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the…
14 June 2022
Macho, tough-talking, strongmen have shaped the 21st century’s politics. In fact, the century began with the archetype of contemporary strongman politics, Putin, being elected on…
13 June 2022
This is part of in a new collection of commentaries from the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project on the New Development Bank's evolution. Browse…
10 June 2022
Petra Minnerop writes on the unprecedented move of a German Court to visit a glacial lake in the Andes to investigate the extraterritorial effects of greenhouse gas emissions that…
09 June 2022
Occasionally, the International Space Station (ISS) must perform special dance maneuvers to avoid colliding with other objects. But the “dancing days” of the …
07 June 2022
Russell Huang and Grant W. Turner propose that a UK programme that secured Huawei products domestically should be scaled to secure other nations reliant on Huawei. While US…
06 June 2022
Leon Hady argues that it is time to use the government’s Ukrainian policies as the standard for helping all immigrant children. The Ukrainian conflict has highlighted the systemic…
01 June 2022
This is part of in a new collection of commentaries from the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project on the New Development Bank's evolution. Browse…
31 May 2022
Anna Stavrianakis explores how international arms transfer rules apply to the war in Ukraine and assesses the implications for international order. The war in Ukraine has…
27 May 2022
The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of the Cold War, and it seemed the end of ideologically driven global conflicts. Thirty years later, there is little…