Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

04 December 2023
Duncan Green explores an event and paper on 'Social Norms, Religion and Family Laws in the MENA Region'. Bafflingly, I was recently invited to an online ‘Expert Group Meeting’ to…
28 November 2023
Israel’s war in Gaza has left Saudi Arabia hedging its bets on the international stage and has stalled its tentative rapprochement with Iran. How is the ongoing conflict set to…
22 November 2023
I’ve just spent a busy few days giving feedback on students’ proposals for their assignments in my activism class at the LSE, which I teach along with Global Policy's Tom Kirk.…
21 November 2023
Nick Strogov explores how and why authoritarian states encourage civil society. Over time, liberal thinkers have believed that a strong civil society in Russia could counteract…
20 November 2023
As ChatGPT noted, “AI has the potential to bring significant benefits to society, but it is crucial to manage its implementation and ensure that it is used in an ethical and…
20 November 2023
Robert Diab argues that we need to change the framing to protect civilians in Gaza. In 1949, Hannah Arendt, who had recently fled from Nazi Germany, pointed out a paradox at the…
16 November 2023
M. Rodwan Abouharb and Bernhard Reinsberg argue that the IMF should require borrower countries to impose loan conditions in a non-partisan way. Sri Lanka received a bailout from…
15 November 2023
Taking a sideways look at George Ritzer’s famous McDonaldization thesis, Titus Alexander argues that rather than being an iron cage, social scientists have much to gain from…
15 November 2023
This post by Oxfam’s Richard Stanforth and Magnus Corfixen first appeared on Oxfam’s Views and Voices blog. Why are Oxfam and other humanitarian organisations…
09 November 2023
Latin American Foreign Policies in the New World Order: The Active Non-Alignment Option, edited by Carlos Fortin, Jorge Heine, and Carlos Ominami. London: Anthem Press, 2023. 304…