Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Tom Kirk
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The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts by Harriet Allsopp and Wladimir Van Wilgenburg. London and New York: I.B. Tauris 2019. 264 pp., £75 hardcover 978-…
Alex Nunn and Marc Cowling explore the effects of lockdown on Subjective Well-Being in the UK and draw policy lessons applicable to many countries.
Many countries around the world…
Tom Kirk – GP’s Online Editor and development researcher - shares his worries that the recent announcement to merge the UK’s foreign aid and affairs ministries will make the…
In the wake of COVID-19 and the looming challenges associated with climate change, technocracy will become a more popular form of governance to tackle the issues that arise. But,…
With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic two key tenets for humanitarian aid that often go together, context analysis and travel, are now in tension. World Vision’s Johan Eldebo…
Nayef Al-Rodhan overviews some of the opportunities and worries about the use of big data to address pandemics.
The COVID19 pandemic has re-energized the interest in Big…
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures– Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 10…
Over a billion people living in poverty and a $500 million per day loss of income for the poorest people in the world could soon be reality.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to…
Jon (Yuan) Jiang explores the BRI's ideological aims and why they may inadvertently threaten others.
For a raft of typically conspiratorially inclined commentators, the Belt and…
As governments decide to postpone elections or alter electoral processes because of COVID-19, it is crucial that they have a transparent debate about doing so. Importantly, they…
Helidah Didi Ogude argues that a long history of neoliberal state policies have left a US welfare system unfit for purpose and a citizenry wrongly held responsible for their …
Professor Anoush Ehteshami introduces four 'coronavirus diaries' written by his PhD students from different areas of the world, yet undertaking their studies at Durham…
Ba-Linh Tran and Robyn Klingler-Vidra highlight lessons from Vietnam’s currently successful easing of lockdown restrictions.
Vietnam eased social distancing…
Caroline Tynan unpicks why South Korea and Taiwan has been so effective at countering COVID-19.
Since the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, challenges to democratic…
George Kibala Bauer argues that we must seek nuanced perspectives, engage with local realities, and transcend the Western gaze when reporting on Covid and Africa.…