Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

14 October 2016
Amy F. Woolf explores the implications of a possible no first use policy in the US. In July 2016, reports in U.S. newspapers indicated the Obama Administration considered adopting…
14 October 2016
My inbox has been buzzing with praise for a new paper on this issue by the Carnegie Endowment’s democracy guru, Thomas Carothers. Since he’s one of my favourite FP2P…
13 October 2016
Stephan Manning explores how the modular principle can help develop solutions to various global 'wicked' problems. We live in a world burdened by large-scale problems…
11 October 2016
This interview was conducted by Joel Sandhu for the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to…
11 October 2016
On the last day of the AWID International Forum in Brazil, more than two thousand women came together to help imagine a feminist future, and to look at the hard realities of…
10 October 2016
Johanna Mendelson Forman argies that food is an important aspect of national security, social entrepreneurship, and peacebuilding. We are witnessing a revolution in food. New…
10 October 2016
Their message is that it will change production, benefit consumers and bring a sense of togetherness, writes Giuseppe Porcaro. Any device with an on-and-off switch can (and should…
07 October 2016
Nelson Mandela once said, “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” He should know. Mandela, and others, vanquished perhaps the world’s second most…
07 October 2016
Since the financial crisis, central banks have taken on a far more significant role in economic management. But with diminishing returns of and unintended consequences from…
07 October 2016
15 years after he coined the term, Jim O'Neill explores the progress of the BRICS. This year marks the 15th anniversary of the “BRICs,” the term I coined to…