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Duncan Green with a realistic yet optimistic take on making change. I was asked to do an ‘inspirational 5 minutes’ at the end of our new-look LSE graduation ceremony just before…
Tahir M. Nisar and Henry Agyei-Boapeah discuss how effectively low and middle-income (LMICs) can tackle the challenge of COVID-19 by designing and implementing AI and data science…
Azer Babayev explores the role the international community can play in ensuring the current fragile peace lasts. The recent military flair up of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was…
Refusal to allow a Hungarian official to enter Ukraine stoked political tensions which were already riding high. But what are the repercussions for Ukraine’s cooperation with the…
Koldo Casla reflects on a year dominated by the pandemic and why we still can't be sure what its final outcomes may be. In March 2020, days after the World Health Organization…
These institutions were designed with colonial principles in mind, and they remain largely colonial in character to this day. Most people assume that inequality between the global…
UK print media coverage of immigration is noted for its hostility and divisiveness. From the cliché that migrants heap unsustainable pressure on public services, to the depiction…
The overwhelming prioritization of vaccines takes attention and resources away from the complex political, social and infrastructural investments that underlie a resilient public…
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 15 years…
The Media Manifesto by Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman, Justin Schlosberg and Lina Dencik. Cambridge: Polity, 2020. 142 pp., £35 hardcover 9781509538058, £9.99 paperback…