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International Media Centre – G7 Charlevoix Summit. With the recent decision taken by the Trump administration to impose steel and aluminium tariffs on its European and Canadian…
International Media Centre – G7 Charlevoix Summit. When the first draft agendas of the G7 summit in Charlevoix made the rounds, Canada appeared dead set on making the problem of…
International Media Centre – G7 Charlevoix Summit. In the lead up to the 2018 G7 Summit in Quebec, Canada promised that it would be a ‘tremendous opportunity to strengthen Canada’…
International Media Centre – G7 Charlevoix Summit. Brexit, the closely-fought Scottish independence referendum, ongoing turmoil in Cataolonia, and, more recently, Italy’s election…
International Media Centre – G7 Charlevoix Summit. It is testament to their commitment to the G7 process that since 1975 the overwhelming majority of leaders have sought to attend…
We’re all aware of the gender imbalance in boardrooms, Hollywood studios and politics. But what about global peace talks? Only 4% of signatories to peace…
Google Trends has already been used by social science researchers to measure racism within a community. In this article LSE’s Elliott Green demonstrates how this online…
India’s global ambitions are intricately linked to its influence as a regional actor. While Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been busy deepening political and economic ties…
In the digital world, any action we do generates data – whether browsing the internet, answering emails or messaging our friends. Translated into radio waves, this information can…
This text represents a talk given by Pascal Lamy to the Association des Centraliens in Paris, on 24th April 2018.
Although recent developments have challenged the…
All Rise: The high ambitions of the International Criminal Court and the harsh reality by Tjitske Lingsma. Utrecht: Ipso Facto 2017. 448 pp, €29.95 paperback 978-90-77386-20-0, $…
This post is the first in a weekly five part series from Jakob Vestergaard exploring reforms to the EMU that the Commission is hoping that member states will commit to at the end…
Five years ago, when I first heard about it, the idea had been all but forgotten. Most people I talked to had never heard of it either. Now, suddenly, it’s everywhere.…
When humans’ genetic information (known as the genome) was mapped 15 years ago, it promised to change the world. Optimists anticipated an era in which all genetic diseases would…