Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

07 April 2020
Sumithra Prasanna argues that we are in the midst of a debilitating 'infodemic' caused by our inability to make sense of the COVID-19 story. We all love stories. We have a…
06 April 2020
Graham Teskey explores potential governance challenges facing practitioners when the COVID-19 pandemic dissipates. Pandemics are depressingly common in human history. We all know…
06 April 2020
Amine Bennis highlights here how thematic diplomacy is an effective tool for middle powers to both increase their influence and promote shared interests with smaller states. A key…
03 April 2020
Harry Sanders looks for international models to solve Scotland's growing demographic crisis. After years of discussion and debate, Brexit appeared to move one step further…
03 April 2020
*** A video of the webinar is available here or below *** Duncan Green introduces a forthcoming Global Policy Essay on COVID-19 as a 'critical juncture' during an open webinar to…
02 April 2020
Jordy Lee and Morgan Bazilian explain why supply chain disruptions from COVID 19 are indicative of larger problems within the mining industry. Without holding mining Environmental…
01 April 2020
Juergen Braunstein and Sachin Silva explore the need for financial risk models to account for pandemics. The Dow Jones industrial average recorded its highest single-day…
31 March 2020
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik examines the politics of humanitarian wearables to understand more about how digitization is reshaping the nature and relations of aid. Utopian…
30 March 2020
Iwa Salami reports on countries relaxing cryptocurrency regulations in the wake of COVID-19 and what this may mean for the technology's future. Anyone holding bitcoin would have…
30 March 2020
Maddie Grounds explores calls for the automation of health services and what they may mean for the NHS.  Covid-19 is an unprecedented time in our history. The global pandemic…