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The human rights movement can be seen as the ongoing but failing struggle to close the gap between the abstract man of the Declarations and the empirical human being. Has it…
In the second of this three-part series Mubashar Hasan explains how Islamists manipulate a religious concept to justify transnational terrorism, and to mount challenges to Western…
Dani Rodrik explores what China's role may mean for the global trade system.
The global trade system faces an important turning point at the end of this year, one that was…
This briefing updates an earlier ORG report on climate change and points to the significance of the recent acceleration in global warming in relation to the need for a radical…
"Does the United Nations Still Matter?" It often seems so irrelevant to the problems of the modern age that those words appeared last year on the front page of The New…
Sentiment analysis is an increasingly popular metric for news and social media platforms. Alison Powell reflects here on the implications of sentiment analysis and its…
Jane Kirkpatrick interviews Richard Murphy, author of the Joy of Tax, about the power of tax to shape societies, globalisation and tax justice, and the difficulty of teaching…
Too small to influence economics, too bureaucratic to be social movements, banned from politics and removed from the societies they’re trying to change, where do NGOs go…
Power Shift: On the New Global Order by Richard Falk. London: Zed Books. 1783607939.
In Power Shift: On the New Global Order, Richard Falk examines the challenges and changes to…
In the first of a three-part series, Mubashar Hasan explains how Islamists manipulate a religious concept to justify transnational terrorism, and to mount challenges to Western…