Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

25 January 2017
Saad al-Fagih argues that Saudi Arabia is teetering on the edge of major changes. This is a chapter in the E-book 'The Future of the Middle East' co-produced by Global Policy and…
18 January 2017
Andrew Hammond explores the continuities and new developments in representations of Islam, politics and violence in the Middle East. This piece is the first chapter in the E-book…
19 December 2016
Martha Molfetas argues that the we are at the beginning of a new cold war. Somehow it feels as if the Cold War never really ended. Normalised relations between the US and Russia…
13 December 2016
In a personal reflection, Martha Molfetas asks where is a globalist, lover of the EU, environmentalist, former expat and Londoner to go? It's taken me a while to come to grips…
28 November 2016
Cornelius Adebahr argues that although security is a sexy topic, these days the EU has more pressing issues to tackle. When the EU heads of state or government met for the first…
12 October 2016
Karl Muth argues that the croissant’s place in the French economy holds wider lessons for global manufacturers. Last week, I departed before dawn with French breakfast…
11 October 2016
Marion Labouré and Juergen Braunstein examine the structural drivers of recent turns towards populist and extremist politics, and offer Sweden as a role model. The recent Brexit…
31 August 2016
Economists Justin Lin and Wang Yan are the authors of this first commentary in the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) series. Their piece details the key shifts in the global…
17 August 2016
Karl Muth explores the challenge of acknowledging the stubbornly slow pace of some global risks. Our political systems move quickly, as does our media cycle. The vote for Brexit…
08 August 2016
Karl Muth explains why basic incomes should transcend typical left right divides. It isn’t obvious to most of my colleagues and friends why, during the past ten years, I (and…