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At the end of an LSE Public Lecture back in November 2022, I was asked by an astute Oxford graduate student whether Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s return as President of Brazil, the…
Solved: How the World’s Great Cities are Fixing the Climate Crisis by David Miller. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2020. 208 pp., $34.99 hardcover 9781487506827
Where can we…
Solon Ardittis calls for a Security Council made up of political blocs (or alliances).
Calls to reform the UN Security Council have pervaded the political agenda of most non-…
Pelle Axelsson interviews Johan Engvall about a region of the world that some consider 'a blank spot on the map'.
Johan Engvall has been working with the countries in Central Asia…
Pelle Axelsson asks Jan Eliasson for his reflections on a career seeking to maintain communications and prevent conflict.
Jan Eliasson was born in 1940 in…
Kyle Scott argues that countries that can foster equitable rural and urban development will be best placed to tackle deglobalization.
Almost at the outset of the COVID…
Leesa Danzek explores social media influencers as a tool for diplomacy.
Search “#ukrainewar” on TikTok and you may find a handful of Ukrainian soldiers dancing to James…
Danny Bradlow shows how it became standard practice for multilateral financing institutions like the World Bank to have an independent citizen driven accountability…
Thuy Pham examines AI’s role in the classroom and outlines how this new and useful educational tool could be an asset for younger generations.
Artificial intelligence was once a…
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria by Daniel E Agbiboa. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2022. £75 hardcover 9780198861546 …
Rajat Khosla and David McCoy argue that correcting power imbalances and ensuring accountability are at the heart of transforming the global health agenda.
The last few years have…
Feminist Global Health Security. Clare Wenham. Oxford University Press. 2021.
In Feminist Global Health Security, Clare Wenham challenges the marginalisation of women in global…
Bright Simons argues that the absorption channel for development finance, rather than fundraising, is the main bottleneck the Bank's new President must address.…
Pelle Axelsson interviews the well known WMD hunter.
Hans Blix was born in Uppsala in 1928. He studied law at Uppsala University and later continued his studies at Cambridge…
Tom Kirk argues that INGOs should be objects of study as much as the outcomes of their programmes.
I have long argued that a ‘public authorities’ lens can inform the way we think…