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Olu Fasan analyses why economic partnership agreements could be the key to helping African countries achieve their goal of industrialisation.
For nearly three decades, Europe’s…
Antoine Martin explores the increasingly complex relationships between cryptocurrencies and states.
Looking at cryptocurrency and blockchain news this week got me thinking…
Dan Banik argues that the development community must embrace the complexity of measuring success in the difficult places they work.
The history of international…
Erik Brattberg argues that Trump’s trade policies threaten to undermine America’s global leadership role.
By imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, President Donald…
When Zhou Xiaochuan hands over the reins of the People’s Bank of China after 15 years in control, his successor will take charge of a central bank with unprecedented global…
Dan Lomas provides background to clandestine security services’ assassination attempts on foreign soil.
Whitehall sources had been claiming that the suspected…
The worldview that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights promotes is the polar opposite of the one actually gaining traction today, writes Francesca Klug. She argues that…
Michael Johnson gets us up to speed on President Trump's latest policy.
President Donald Trump has signed an order for special tariffs of 25% on imports into the United…
Nayef Al-Rodhan explores the evolving space security race.
Space…
Some of the most widely cited predictions of the economic effects of Brexit rely on flawed analysis, particularly of the performance of the UK after it joined the EEC, and on the…
This guest post on the 'From Poverty to Power' blog by Nikki van der Gaag, Oxfam’s Director of Gender Justice and Women’s Rights.
This International Women’s Day feels different to…
Following the #MeToo revelations, journalist and creative writer Sian Norris let her imagination run wild to envision a global feminist revolution. This is her dispatch from a…
Tracy Bhamra explores the impact of the late Trevor Baylis.
Trevor Baylis, who has died aged 80, left his school in London at 15 without any qualifications. But he went on to…
Mihai Chihaia analyses Russia’s current approach towards North Africa highlighting the main avenues of cooperation with the countries in the region.
North Africa has long been an…
In light of recent divestment announcements by insurers from coal, Lisa Benjamin examines emerging legal obligations for institutional investors in high-emitting industries such…