Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

12 October 2020
To understand the response to COVID-19 in Africa we must look beyond actions taken by formal states. The roles played by various public authorities, operating below the national…
08 October 2020
“The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, are calling for the immediate disembarkation of more than 400 rescued migrants and refugees…
08 October 2020
Zhanna Malekos Smith explores Iran's growing space ambitions. The Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran wrote that “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” A similar barrier…
07 October 2020
Sumithra Prasanna explores how COVID-19 has brought long-standing tensions between individual freedoms, safety, democracy and the common good to the fore. “When is coercion…
06 October 2020
Muddassar Ahmed calls for more open communication between governments and international organizations to regain travellers’ trust in tourism hindered by COVID-19. Sunday 27th of…
05 October 2020
Martha Molfetas draws parallels between the deadly effects of popular responses to COVID-19 and climate change.  Scientists have been ringing the alarm bell on our climate…
05 October 2020
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik and Katja Lindskov Jacobsen explore how a tech-reliant humanitarian sector increasingly finds itself implicated in a global War on Data. In 1971, the…
02 October 2020
A new GP / EGG Essay from Carlos Fortín, Jorge Heine and Carlos Ominami asks what will the impact of a Second Cold War be on Latin America? The COVID-19 pandemic has brought…
01 October 2020
BRI and International Cooperation in Industrial Capacity: Industrial Layout Study edited by Xu Shaoshi. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. 590 pp., 67 b/w Illust, £120…
30 September 2020
Echoing a potential global trend, Dharish David and Simran Walia explore Japan's moves away from operating in China. The desire for Japanese and Western business to wean their…