Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

15 June 2020
Over a billion people living in poverty and a $500 million per day loss of income for the poorest people in the world could soon be reality. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to…
10 June 2020
Jon (Yuan) Jiang explores the BRI's ideological aims and why they may inadvertently threaten others. For a raft of typically conspiratorially inclined commentators, the Belt and…
09 June 2020
As governments decide to postpone elections or alter electoral processes because of COVID-19, it is crucial that they have a transparent debate about doing so. Importantly, they…
08 June 2020
Helidah Didi Ogude argues that a long history of neoliberal state policies have left a US welfare system unfit for purpose and a citizenry wrongly held responsible for their own…
08 June 2020
Professor Anoush Ehteshami introduces four 'coronavirus diaries' written by his PhD students from different areas of the world, yet undertaking their studies at Durham University…
05 June 2020
Ba-Linh Tran and Robyn Klingler-Vidra highlight lessons from Vietnam’s currently successful easing of lockdown restrictions.  Vietnam eased social distancing on April 23rd, so I (…
04 June 2020
Caroline Tynan unpicks why South Korea and Taiwan has been so effective at countering COVID-19. Since the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, challenges to democratic…
04 June 2020
George Kibala Bauer argues that we must seek nuanced perspectives, engage with local realities, and transcend the Western gaze when reporting on Covid and Africa. We all know the…
03 June 2020
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 10 years…
02 June 2020
Insofar as the world economy was already on a fragile, unsustainable path, COVID-19 clarifies the challenges we face and the decisions we must make. The fate of the world economy…