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National innovation strategies are of crucial importance. They determine the types of innovation that are prioritised and funded. But who is deciding which innovations we should…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. The G20 Osaka Summit could play host to the blossoming of a love triangle that nobody asked for, with Emanuel Macron and Abe Shinzō…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. Japan’s second city displays a distinct identity and culture and is always keen to extol its virtues to anyone who is listening.…
Researching gender-based violence in African conflicts is ethically treacherous. A new series on Open Democracy looks at how researchers can avoid the worst pitfalls while working…
Misheck Mutize explores the shortfalls in the regulatory mechanism for international credit rating agencies.
International credit rating agencies have had their fair share of …
Can liberalism be saved from obsolescence and does this really matter? Did the recent European elections spare us the irresistible fall of the establishment?
I find useful points…
Every year, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report examines national gender gaps as they stand today, and projects recent trends into the future to map the likely…
Pressures from global North countries on the global South to adopt multilateral rules on digital trade exemplifies coercive networks of knowledge production and dissemination –…
In this Democracy Papers essay, George Marcus addresses the important role that emotions play in politics. In a timely contribution to essays on the Anxieties of Democracy, Marcus…
At the heart of the current US trade war with China is tariffs on imports like steel, sorghum and silicon chips. But, with the growing role of data and digital technology in the…