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Michael Todd listened to a recent lecture by Gary King on the big data revolution in the social sciences. Professor King insists data is easy to come by and is in…
Johann Hari and Benjamin Ramm in conversation for OpenDemocracy's series on 'The Human Cost of Global Drug Policy'.
Benjamin Ramm: One of the most interesting developments over…
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This is an excerpt from Time, Temporality and Global Politics – an E-IR Edited Collection. Available now on Amazon (UK, USA, Ca, Ger, Fra), in all good book stores, and via a free…
The Closing of the Net by Monica Horten. Polity Press. 2016. 1509506896
In The Closing of the Net, Monica Horten confronts the issue of how corporate structural power has…
Pledging a new commitment to climate action, the liberal government of Justin Trudeau will have to reconcile these initiatives with the economic boom generated by oil extraction.…
The aid community often ignores the wishes of the very people it’s supposed to be helping. The world needs a more bottom-up approach to development. A contribution to…
David Bollier reports on a meeting of a diverse group of twenty commons-oriented activists, academics, policy experts and project leaders for three days in Lehnin, Germany,…
Six of the twelve candidates for the job of UN Secretary-General are women, but in the first informal vote at the Security Council only one woman made it to the top five. Why?
On…
Oxfam’s private sector adviser Erinch Sahan thinks the times are ripe for a paradigm shift
In a former life (i.e. six years ago), I worked as a development adviser to…