Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

13 February 2017
The Ways of the World. David Harvey. Profile Books. 2016. The Ways of the World offers an intellectual journey through the work of David Harvey over the past five decades,…
13 February 2017
For recipients aid has been a very mixed blessing, but for donors it’s been a bonanza. It’s astonishing when you think about it. Why should an old and poorly-…
09 February 2017
Zachary Haver analyzes the European Union’s fundamentally imbalanced relationship with China and argues how an EU-China Free Trade Agreement could resolve this issue. The EU…
09 February 2017
C. J. Polychroniou interviews world-renowned Cambridge University Professor of Economics Ha-Joon Chang. For the past 40 years or so, neoliberalism has reigned supreme over much of…
06 February 2017
Jason Miklian explains what the election of Donald Trump means for the future of peacebuilding as the world takes an illiberal turn, and how businesses can carve new roles at the…
06 February 2017
Moonhawk Kim explores the breakdown of America's post-war domestic-international bargain. Ruggie’s (1982) “embedded liberalism” provided the framework for…
03 February 2017
Kevin P. Gallagher's commentary for the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) series explores China's growing passion for green finance, south-south development cooperation,…
02 February 2017
How should universities respond to the global rise in populism? “We are going to survive this phase, because basic education and research – which is based on facts…
01 February 2017
Stefan Kossoff (DFID’s governance czar) reviews the new WDR, published this week. For those of us working on governance this week’s publication of the 2017 World…
31 January 2017
Unless life is uncomfortable, there’s no room for transformation. Does it matter that Micah Johnson was killed by a robot, albeit one controlled by human hands? Johnson shot…