Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

15 November 2023
Taking a sideways look at George Ritzer’s famous McDonaldization thesis, Titus Alexander argues that rather than being an iron cage, social scientists have much to gain from…
15 November 2023
This post by Oxfam’s Richard Stanforth and Magnus Corfixen first appeared on Oxfam’s Views and Voices blog. Why are Oxfam and other humanitarian organisations…
09 November 2023
Latin American Foreign Policies in the New World Order: The Active Non-Alignment Option, edited by Carlos Fortin, Jorge Heine, and Carlos Ominami. London: Anthem Press, 2023. 304…
08 November 2023
Margreet van Doodewaard and Antonia Potter Prentice make a new case for the old values of solidarity, adaptability and long-term commitment as the basis for effective Civil…
07 November 2023
Geoff Beattie on why elites become trapped in echo chambers of shared values with horrific results for others. Sexism, harassment and bullying plague the Red Arrows, the UK Royal…
02 November 2023
Anastasia Vasilyeva introduces and overviews a new Global Policy e-book available for free now. Often thought to be a malice of the past, slavery continues to take on a variety of…
26 October 2023
Anir Chowdhury and Ashfaq Zaman argue that the digital divide is the perfect priority case for the United Nations.   In many parts of the world, we see the advent…
25 October 2023
The US has never been a fan of some of South Africa’s friends, but with a key trade deal up for renegotiation it might be time for South Africa to choose between the US and its…
24 October 2023
Duncan Green unpicks new research on what works for Protest Movements. I met (albeit via zoom and Global Policy's Tom Kirk) with Srjda Popovic, one of my protest heroes, last week…
20 October 2023
Arief Anshory Yusuf, Zuzy Anna, Ahmad Komarulzaman and Andy Sumner identify the pathway to have any hope of achieving the poverty-related SDGs. Today, October 17th is the UN…