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Guinea is an exemplary case of North-South exploitation, as well as of the ambiguities involved on both sides. This is what is shown by the case of its foreign-stored gold…
Robert H. Wade argues the West is following a well worn play book.
On 26 March President Biden, speaking in Warsaw, said, unscripted: “For God’s sake, this man [Putin] cannot…
Rather than accepting global rankings and their accompanying policy recommendations, Robyn Klingler-Vidra and Yu Ching Kuo contend that policymakers should either ignore, or…
Nik Emir Din explores what the tech sector could learn from Fairtrade.
Every day, there is a new war over data. Right now, Europe and Meta are locking horns over …
Dave Anderson explains how NATO’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is neither a realist nor idealist reponse but a pragmatist response.
There are many isms in…
Zhanna Malekos Smith explores a recent fractures in U.S.-Russia space relations.
Since 1998, the International Space Station (ISS) has been praised as an exemplary model…
Understandably, perhaps, progressive researchers often prefer to try to understand the lives, challenges and struggles of the poor. Who wants to spend their time talking to sleazy…
The United States vs China: The Quest for Global Economic Leadership by C. Fred Bergsten. Cambridge: Polity 2022. 384 pp., £25 hardcover 9781509547357
Although Fred Bergsten’s…
Hans Gutbrod argues that all interpretations of Russia's invasion of Ukraine point to a radical change of paradigm for international relations.
Public and international…
Global Inequality 101: Global inequality is the distribution of income across all people on the planet from the poorest to the richest. It can be measured with the ‘Gini’…