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Magda Osman explores a recent review of a review that challenges nudge dogma.
At the end of last year (2021), there was lots of excitement about the first comprehensive…
Alex Evans summarizes a new report with five questions for change-makers.
How big is our idea of ‘us’? Are our family and friends part of ‘us’? Of course. Our…
Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights by Nina Reiners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022. 216 pp., £85 hardcover 978-1-108-84554-0
Who makes human rights…
Freeze! The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War by Henry Richard Maar III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 300 pp., $51.95 hardcover…
As all sports, women’s football is in its essence and backgrounds political. The Women’s European Football Championships in England 2022 are no exception. They clearly manifest…
Sam Pryke reviews the literature on the supposed demise of globalisation to argue that it was and should be viewed as a process, rather than an endpoint we have been heading…
Michael Bröning argues that it is increasingly unclear how the United Nation's global governance ambitions can be squared with the fragmenting political reality.
Figuratively…
The culminating piece in the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project's commentary series provides an overview of the New Development Bank's role in the…
Almost all qualitative and quantitative research into human society involves the participation of other humans. However, they are frequently rendered passively in research outputs…
Sharanya Sekaram on the fear activists feel due to recent developments in the USA and the hope they must take from elsewhere.
I recall watching the passage of the 2018 Irish…
Through the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become clear that an effective response to an emergency of this nature goes beyond the health system. While strengthening health…
Oxfam’s Amy Croome explores a tricky issue for aid organizations like Oxfam.
At the Grand Bargain Meeting this week, signatories will reflect on the role of…
Roland Benedikter argues that UNESCO's Futures Literacy approach is key to ensuring global policies are appropriate for and taken up by local communities.
UNESCO is the…
The global minimum corporate tax, coming into place in 2023, is a first step toward a global system of taxation, but it will benefit almost exclusively rich countries. I recommend…
International Media Centre, G7 Schloß Elmau Summit
So, another summit has concluded with the release of the G7 Leaders’ Communiqué and the resultant flurry of activity in the…