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Global Cities and Global Order by Simon Curtis. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016. 240 pp, £55 hardcover 9780198744016
During the last decade, there has been an extraordinary…
Joel Sandhu introduces the Global Governance Futures 2030 – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues and outlines its approach.
Thanks to rapid advances in technology…
“The urge to censor is greatest where debate is most disquieting and orthodoxy most entrenched…”
–Chief Judge Alex Kozinski
In September of last year, conservative speaker, Ben…
James Parisot and Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. introduce their book exploring America’s responses to its loss of hegemony.
The world appears to be shifting into an era of…
Militarised Responses to Transnational Organised Crime: The War on Crime. Tuesday Reitano, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo and Sasha Jesperson (eds). Palgrave Macmillan. 2018.
In…
Corporations and governments around the world increasingly stand accused of causing or failing to prevent the damaging effects of climate change. Test cases are being…
Is Greece on the road to economic recovery? In this interview, Lapavitsas suggests it is simply ludicrous on the part of a former left party to speak of a neoliberal success story…
The challenges that Europe faces both from within and from outside require immediate, concerted counter-efforts. While efforts to advance the European economic architecture are…
The end game is clear: Assad, Russia and Iran will emerge victorious.
The conflict in Syria has been the most vicious in contemporary history, creating a geo-political hall of…
Andrew Fanning finds that no country currently meets the basic needs of its citizens at a globally sustainable level. Here he reflects on a further insight from that research…
Only a handful of European states are currently governed by left-wing governments, and several of the traditionally largest left-wing parties, such as the Socialist Party in…
Corinna Lathan explores how beyond the global conversations Davos brought home some very personal reflections.
Last year when I was in Davos, I received a text from my 11-year-old…
Imagine a world where every country has not only complied with the Paris climate agreement but has moved away from fossil fuels entirely. How would such a change affect global…
Too small to influence economics, too bureaucratic to be social movements, banned from politics and removed from the societies they’re trying to change, where do NGOs go next?
On…
The juncture of big and open data informs areas as diverse as artificial intelligence, agriculture, and public health, and promises to transform our ability to tackle global…