Tom Kirk

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

Post Archive

09 June 2015
This six below analyses represent the collected post-summit thoughts of the Global Leadership Initiative's team that covered the event for Global Policy. The Global…
09 June 2015
Just as is has done on mass immigration, the liberal-left needs to reconsider its stance on international aid. Its current position does not serve those it is supposed to…
08 June 2015
This post represents the fifth in a series from the ongoing G7 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to keep up…
08 June 2015
This post represents the fourth in a series from the ongoing G7 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to keep up…
08 June 2015
Last year’s presidential elections were a huge achievement for Afghanistan’s infant democracy. Yet, will President Ashraf Ghani’s national unity government be able to face the…
07 June 2015
This post represents the third in a series from the ongoing G7 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to keep…
07 June 2015
This post represents the second in a series from the ongoing G7 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to keep up…
07 June 2015
This post represents the first in a series from the ongoing G7 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to keep…
28 May 2015
This speech was given by Global Policy Board Member Pascal Lamy as the Jan Tumlir Lecture at a conference organized by ECIPE on March 9, 2015 in Brussels. I will argue that we are…
26 May 2015
Asia’s development has been so successful that it has been labelled a “miracle.” However, if this is true for economic growth, the picture looks far less…
25 May 2015
Following a largely unexpected election defeat, David Held poses 10 questions for the Labour Party with significance far beyond Britain. The UK general election was tumultuous…
18 May 2015
Nayef Al-Rodhan explores the implications of the development and acquisition of human enhancement technologies for military purposes. Human enhancement technologies are expanding…
15 May 2015
Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse by Paul Staniland. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014. $79.95 hardcover 978-0-8014-5266-6, $27.95…