Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

18 March 2022
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’…
18 March 2022
Western governments have united to bring in a number of serious economic sanctions against Russia in retaliation for its violence in Ukraine, including the latest announcement…
15 March 2022
The time limit to reach the goals of the 2030 Agenda is now just eight years away. It is vital to pursue a new model of partnerships, based on coordinated responses, if we are to…
11 March 2022
Ramesh Thakur argues that we're experiencing an international order in transition, with terrible consequences for Ukraine, few options for NATO and big wins for…
10 March 2022
Guest post from Anna Landre, one of our (Tom from GP and Duncan from F2P2) amazing students, who has bunked off class (with permission) to do some amazing work on Ukraine. And she…
08 March 2022
By empowering women, we make communities more resilient to the direct impacts of climate change. Women disproportionately bear the brunt of climate change. However, they are also…
08 March 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has met with fierce resistance from the Ukrainian military and from ordinary citizens. Drawing on survey evidence, Pippa Norris and …
04 March 2022
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia by Robtel Neajai Pailey. Cambridge University Press 2021. 250 pp., £75…
03 March 2022
Ali Fathollah-Nejad argues that the Biden and Raisi administrations have no other options but to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, but that this does not mean…
01 March 2022
Robert H. Wade takes on the challenging task of sketching the contours of a diplomatic solution to conflict in the Ukraine. I was among the large majority confident that…