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In taming the climate crisis, the crude reality is that the interplay between politics, economics and culture figures prominently, which is another way of saying that the profound…
This week the UN Habitat III Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development is underway in Quito, Ecuador. Eight students from the University of Sheffield will be working…
Amy F. Woolf explores the implications of a possible no first use policy in the US.
In July 2016, reports in U.S. newspapers indicated the Obama Administration considered adopting…
My inbox has been buzzing with praise for a new paper on this issue by the Carnegie Endowment’s democracy guru, Thomas Carothers. Since he’s one of my favourite FP2P guest posters…
Stephan Manning explores how the modular principle can help develop solutions to various global 'wicked' problems.
We live in a world burdened by large-scale problems that refuse…
This interview was conducted by Joel Sandhu for the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look…
On the last day of the AWID International Forum in Brazil, more than two thousand women came together to help imagine a feminist future, and to look at the hard realities of…
Johanna Mendelson Forman argies that food is an important aspect of national security, social entrepreneurship, and peacebuilding.
We are witnessing a revolution in food. New…
Their message is that it will change production, benefit consumers and bring a sense of togetherness, writes Giuseppe Porcaro.
Any device with an on-and-off switch can (and should…
Nelson Mandela once said, “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” He should know. Mandela, and others, vanquished perhaps the world’s second most divisive conflict: the…
Since the financial crisis, central banks have taken on a far more significant role in economic management. But with diminishing returns of and unintended consequences from…
15 years after he coined the term, Jim O'Neill explores the progress of the BRICS.
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the “BRICs,” the term I coined to refer to the major…
But the effect on firm performance has been mixed across the different countries, write Simona Comi, Mara Grasseni, Federica Origo and Laura Pagani.
In the last decade, a number…
Angela Robinson and Paul Piff explore how inequality causes an empathy gap.
For many, wealth may seem like an unmitigated good – the more of it you have, the better. After all,…
Building a culture of philanthropy in the global South is a herculean task, but small grants can still make big changes. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on funding…