Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

29 April 2015
William Attwell asks how we currently attempt to rank global cities and what these efforts tell us. In March, international property consultancy Frank Knight published its 2015…
28 April 2015
In the first part of this new six part series, Roland Benedikter begins to develop his argument that fighting extremism worldwide will require institutional solutions for…
21 April 2015
In the latest output from Juxtapose, Dr Sumit Roy explores the shift in the strategic vision of China and India towards Africa. For full paper See; ‘China and India, “…
20 April 2015
Fabrizio Petri explores the relationship between homosexuality and nonviolence. Studying the psychological and ethical relationship between homosexuality and nonviolence seems a…
16 April 2015
As geoengineering is increasingly seen as a method of limiting global warming, Jasdeep Randhawa explores ways of regulating the conduct of geoengineering experiments. The…
16 April 2015
Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China, by Stephen Roach. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2014. 344 pp, $35/£20 hardcover 9780300187175, $22/…
15 April 2015
In the wake of the recent attack in Tunis, Dr Rafik Abdessalem, Tunisia’s former Foreign Minister, outlines why social and economic inclusion may be the best strategy for…
10 April 2015
GP Board Member Pascal Lamy argues that while many of the answers to globalization's questions reside within domestic political systems, our current global governance system…
03 April 2015
In an inversion of development norms, Rachit Ranjan & Ishita Das argue that christchurch could look to emerging markets to help it rebuild and prepare for the future. The…
01 April 2015
Aasim Khan explores how India’s experiments with liberal constitutionalism have informed its approach to internet governance. The 20th century witnessed several ‘revolutions of…