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Gender, War, and Conflict by Laura Sjoberg. Cambridge / Malden MA: Polity Press, 2014. 202 pp, £50 / €62.50 hardcover 978-0-7456-6001-1, £14.99 / €18.80…
In this Global Policy Response Mario Telo dissects the Hertie School of Governance’s Governance Report 2015, with particular attention to its focus on the link between…
When States lack social legitimacy, a lack of trust in politicians or political parties is merely a symptom of this. Who then do we turn to?
On Saturday, Oct 10, over one hundred…
Where does India stand on current developments in internet governance? Rohan Wadhwa argues that the country needs to take the lead in shaping the debate in order to fulfill its…
Madeleine K. Albright and Ibrahim A. Gambari, Co-Chairs, Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance, introduce the idea of 'just security' to forge a mutually…
Fear may never disappear, but we can make it ineffective as a means of power and control.
“Fear is the deadliest assassin; it does not kill but it keeps you from living.…
Morten Koch Andersen examines the relationship between corruption and torture and how the global reform movement needs to rethink policy and intervention, moving from…
In the wake of the mounting migration crisis in Europe, Global Policy’s General Editor David Held unpacks the reasons behind the upsurge in people crossing the Mediterranean…
The Politics of Nuclear Weapons by Andrew Futter. London and New Delhi: Sage, 2015. 280 pp, £75 hardcover 978-1-4462-9430-7, £26.99 paperback 978-1-4462-9431-4
A good…
Without Shepherds, directed by Cary McClelland and Imran Babur. Pakistan, 2013. Produced by Cary McClelland, Billy Smith, Robert Profusek, and Ryan Silbert. 89 minutes,…
Covering Bin Laden: Global Media and the World’s Most Wanted Man edited by Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 259 pp, $95…
The way financial growth is framed determines everything from how we address poverty and inequality to how we deal with climate change.
Growth is good. We need growth for wealth,…
Political Order and Inequality: Their Foundations and their Consequences for Human Welfare by Carles Boix (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). 334 pp. ISBN:…
Does Facebook liberate or further segregate women? Emrys Schoemaker explores how and why women in Pakistan prefer to use WhatsApp rather than Facebook to avoid young men seeing…
To prepare it to address pressing global challenges, Susanne Salz suggests the United Nations should be turned into the ‘United Actors’, which would include certain…