Tom Kirk

Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

Post Archive

13 August 2015
The Politics of Nuclear Weapons by Andrew Futter. London and New Delhi: Sage, 2015. 280 pp, £75 hardcover 978-1-4462-9430-7, £26.99 paperback 978-1-4462-9431-4 A good…
10 August 2015
Without Shepherds, directed by Cary McClelland and Imran Babur. Pakistan, 2013. Produced by Cary McClelland, Billy Smith, Robert Profusek, and Ryan Silbert. 89 minutes,…
07 August 2015
Covering Bin Laden: Global Media and the World’s Most Wanted Man edited by Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 259 pp, $95…
06 August 2015
The way financial growth is framed determines everything from how we address poverty and inequality to how we deal with climate change. Growth is good. We need growth for wealth,…
06 August 2015
Political Order and Inequality: Their Foundations and their Consequences for Human Welfare by Carles Boix (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). 334 pp. ISBN:…
05 August 2015
Does Facebook liberate or further segregate women? Emrys Schoemaker explores how and why women in Pakistan prefer to use WhatsApp rather than Facebook to avoid young men seeing…
28 July 2015
To prepare it to address pressing global challenges, Susanne Salz suggests the United Nations should be turned into the ‘United Actors’, which would include certain…
22 July 2015
Nayef Al-Rodhan explores how the study of strategic culture remains important for understanding and addressing conflicts in an interdependent world. The debate on Strategic…
21 July 2015
Challenges for Europe in the World, 2030 edited by John Eatwell, Terry McKinley and Pascal Petit. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 408 pp, £25 paperback 9781472419262, £72…
02 July 2015
Seth Oppenheim explores the application of the law of war to cyber conflicts and why efforts should be made to shape its future now. The summer blockbuster season presents the…
30 June 2015
Sylvia Szabo and Rituparna Hajra offer a number of policy options for supporting sustainable urban development and human well-being. Globally around 54% of people live in urban…
30 June 2015
Ruling Capital: Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance by Kevin P. Gallagher. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2015. 248 pp, $29.95 / £…