Reiterative Policy Divergence—Explaining the Processes of Political Change
Tristan Kenderdine argues that during a period of global…
Global Britain or Little Britain? We May Find Out this Week
Sam Nadel, Oxfam’s Head of Policy and Advocacy, reflects on a bad…
Testing Our Way Out of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov and Min Zhu introduce a recent IMF paper…
Solve Suffering by Blowing up the Universe? The Dubious Philosophy of Human Extinction
Thomas Moynihan explores extreme solutions to humanities' tendency to…
Peacekeeping in Nagorno-Karabakh: Will the Scandinavians Contribute?
While a degree of calm has returned to the Nagorno-Karabakh region,…
Columnists
Cornelius Adebahr argues that a return to an old, pre-Trump, transatlantic mindset will not…
Branko Milanovic on the lessons we should learn from the Trump era.
Now as Trump is being made…
This is a short, less than 700 words, piece that “Globe and Mail” asked me to write about the…
Markovits, D. (2019) The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality,…
Scott Montgomery on why autocrats fear scientific knowledge and expertise.
A hidden but heated…
Keman Huang, Stuart Madnick and Nazli Choucri argue that Singapore must lead the world in …
Branko Milanovic argues that, in some cases, literature can help shed light on how inequality was…
Opinion and Analysis
Tristan Kenderdine argues that during a period of global change, institutional theory can…
Sam Nadel, Oxfam’s Head of Policy and Advocacy, reflects on a bad week for the UK.
Cast your mind…
Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov and Min Zhu introduce a recent IMF paper that argues mass testing…
Thomas Moynihan explores extreme solutions to humanities' tendency to threaten others.
At a…
While a degree of calm has returned to the Nagorno-Karabakh region, the prospect for a…
Nathanial Matthews, Karen Sack and Chip Cunliffe call for multilateral collaboration and innovation…
The Northern Irish politician John Hume, who was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998,…
Essays
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of society and nearly every unit of government.…
Many countries around the world instituted a ‘Lockdown’ in response to the novel Coronavirus Covid…
Harnessing the economic opportunities of digital technologies often requires changes in policy and…
Reviews
Aid and Technical Cooperation as a Foreign Policy Tool for Emerging Donors: The Case of Brazil, by…
Markovits, D. (2019) The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality,…
Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies by Clive Jones and Yoel Guzansky. London: Hurst,…