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International Media Centre — G20 Hangzhou Summit. Unusually clear skies cover the city of Hangzhou, where China will host the G20 Leaders Summit from 4 to 5 September. The…
How to Host a Summit – or Not
International Media Centre — G20 Hangzhou Summit. Hosting an international summit on the scale of the G20 is no easy task. First and…
Social scientists and policy-makes have long built their models around a theory of 'rational action' which bears little relation to how people respond to the complexities…
The Politics of Inclusive Development: Policy, State Capacity, and Coalition Building. Teichman. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016.
The Politics of Inclusive…
Has humanity reached an irreversible stage with regard to climate change? If not, can we halt the phenomenon of global warming from fulfilling a catastrophic scenario which will…
Instead of fighting a destructive economic system, international conservation NGOs are bonding with its brutality.
Conservationists like me want a world where wildlife has space,…
Could the current modalities of humanitarian aid to refugees be improved? Dr. Stephanie Levy argues for more creative aid agreements to form the backbone of the global…
Dani Rodrik on the checks and balances that will likely temper increasing anger with globalisation.
Perhaps the only surprising thing about the populist backlash that…
Carmen Leong explores how social media’s ‘weak ties’ can grow and sustain a movement for democratic reforms.
The Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street are not the…
Josephine Liebl, Oxfam’s global policy lead on displacement, looks ahead to the UN Summit in New York in September – and looks back on a heady few weeks…