Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

03 August 2017
The UK’s decision to vote for Brexit has been viewed by many observers as proof that the European Union suffers from a deep crisis of legitimacy. As Matt Wood …
03 August 2017
Tristan Kenderdine calls for better tools to analyze China’s growing economic influence.  Trade agreements between nation states usually create state-to-state…
02 August 2017
David Held, GP’s General Editor, explores social, economic and political understandings of evolution in a lecture recently delivered at Durham University.   …
02 August 2017
African feminist movements are diverse. But we can, and must, learn from decades of transformational organising on the continent. As African feminists, we face multiple…
01 August 2017
Kristian Hoelscher and Jason Miklian ask how tech can be harnessed for peace without ignoring the lessons from past conflicts and causing more harm than good.  What's the…
01 August 2017
The rise of populism is a challenge for open societies but an opportunity for public policy schools. Students and alumni of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin …
31 July 2017
At the United Nations, the buzz around a “data revolution” has taken the role of numeric indicators to new heights. Once thought to be a technical issue for…
31 July 2017
Ewa Atanassow asks how can we deal with the rise of the term ‘illiberal democracy’? This May 8 in Berlin - a date and place whose symbolism cannot be mistaken - the…
28 July 2017
‘White trash,’ ‘dumbass libtard,’ ‘right-wing fuckhead:’ have we all gone mad? Q: “Why are you such a dumbass? A: Why are morons like you…
28 July 2017
Kishore Mahbubani explores the prospects of a joint Chinese-Indian defence of globalisation. The biggest contradiction in global governance can be described succinctly. We live in…