Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

25 May 2022
Bob Hancké and Angela Garcia Calvo take a closer look at the initiatives to build semiconductors in Europe through the perspective of industrial policy successes and failures in…
23 May 2022
Daniel Clausen explores how Japan's cities are engaging in state-like actions at home and abroad. The 21st century has been called the “urban century.” The World Bank estimates…
16 May 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…
12 May 2022
Chris Dunn and Morgan Bazilian summarize how satellite data is rapidly growing in importance for informing crucial policy decisions. Insights offered fall into one of three main…
10 May 2022
Negotiating Survival: Civilian–Insurgent Relations in Afghanistan by Ashley Jackson. London: Hurst 2021. 328 pp., £30 hardcover 9781787384859 Ashley Jackson’s fascinating book, …
05 May 2022
Andreas Antoniades and Stefanie Ortmann remind us that Russia’s war in Ukraine has set in motion broader systemic dynamics that the world will need answers for regardless of…
05 May 2022
James McBride argues that, in light of climate change, the Rome Statute should be amended to enable the prosecution of corporations and their officers for the destruction of the…
04 May 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…
04 May 2022
Dave Anderson explains that Putin’s thinking regarding nuclear weapons cannot be understood through the lens of Western rationality.  World War III, though irrational to the…
03 May 2022
Daniel Clausen explores the historical legacies that inform modern city diplomacy.  When people think of diplomacy today, they often think of formal negotiations between…