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Young people feel that they’re not being listened to by global decision makers. But with over half of the world’s population under the age of 30, it won’t be…
The Law of Deliberative Democracy by Ron Levy and Graeme Orr. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016. 239 pp, £110 hardcover 9780415705004, £39.99 e-book 9781315890159
With…
Mark Lorch explores why conspiracy theories spring up with such regularity.
I’m sitting on a train when a group of football fans streams on. Fresh from the game –…
This is the third of a four-part series of posts on Poland’s, Hungary’s and the Czech Republic’s perilous play with the EU’s refugee relocation agreement.…
Aid donors, governments and the United Nations have made many commitments to gender equality. Their actions have been less impressive.
Across United Nations programmes, gender…
This is the second of a four-part series of posts on Poland’s, Hungary’s and the Czech Republic’s perilous play with the EU’s refugee relocation agreement…
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap by Yuen Yuen Ang. 2016. Cornell University Press, Cornell Studies in Political Economy.
We chose to highlight this book for the World…
This is the first of a four-part series of posts on Poland’s, Hungary’s and the Czech Republic’s perilous play with the EU’s refugee relocation agreement.…
What we eat matters to us – but we’re not sure whether it ought to matter to anyone else. We generally insist that our diets are our business and resent being told to…
The more people who participate in a democracy, the more democratic it becomes – or so de Tocqueville believed. But sceptics have challenged that assumption on the basis…
When you find yourself doing the same thing Putin and his propaganda machine does, you’re doing something wrong.
On 11-12 August, violent clashes erupted between the far-…
llan Manor explores America's changing use of social media under Trump.
For over a decade the State Department has relied on social media sites to counter extremist narratives…
Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination: From Patriots to Victims by David M. Rosen. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015. 238 pp, $90 hardcover 978-0-8135-6371-8…
Emma Chippendale explores a recent conference on Political Remittances and Political Transnationalism: Narratives, Political Practices and the Role of the State.
On 19 and 20…
Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi distills the vital lessons from the past, the complicated legacy of independence and partition, and the enduring relevance of…