Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Tom Kirk
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Climate Change and Human Rights: An International and Comparative Law Perspective, edited by Ottavio Quirico and Mouloud Boumghar. Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2016. 410 pp,…
Strategic Resource Partnerships (SRP’s) based on Strategic Resource Modeling (SRM) are becoming increasingly important issues for the theory and practice of International…
Foreign aid has helped Nepal make headway in the health and education sector in the past decade. But the earthquakes in April and May 2015 and the insufficent response by Nepal…
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement – initiated by the US, has excluded many emerging economies of Asia-Pacific from its remit. This post highlights the potential…
Digital Diplomacy: Conversations on Innovation in Foreign Policy by Andreas Sandre. Lanham / London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 332 pp, £54.95 hardcover 978-1-4422-3635…
Brad L. Brasseur explores the current problems in creating good education for the poor in developing nations and looks at some of the solutions.
The United Nations recently…
Stephen Minas explores how the Climate Technology Centre Network represents an important form of cross border collective action to help address climate change.
The intensification…
Global Energy Justice: Problems, Principles, and Practices by Benjamin K. Sovacool and Michael H Dworkin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014. 414 pp, £24.99…
A liberal Actor in a Realist World: The European Union Regulatory State and the Global Political Economy of Energy by Andreas Goldthau and Nick Sitter. Oxford: Oxford University…
In the first of a series of commentaries on the Justice and Security Research Programme’s emerging ideas, Tom Kirk reports on Alex de Waal’s recent book launch and…
Theories of International Relations: Contending Approaches to World Politics by Stephanie Lawson. Cambridge: Polity, 2015. 288 pp., £55.00 / €68.80 hardcover 978-0-7456…
The Indian Government should step back from its move to ban commercial surrogacy for foreigners. The policy further restricts the choices of those in poverty and will have a…
ISIS fighters must be held to account as criminals, not conventional military adversaries, for their violent crimes. Snared by geopolitical interests, post-9/11 interventions have…
Andrea Koch, Alex McBratney and Budiman Minasny investigate the viability of a call by the French Government in the lead up to COP21 to increase carbon in the global soil stock by…
This post is part of a series from the ongoing G20 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to keep up to date…