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With Eritrea, a strange partner has taken over the chair of the “Khartoum Process”, the forum for EU-African dialogue on migration.
In early March 2019, the Eritrean government…
Nicholas Beuret on why we need to look within countries and households to understand the source of dangerous emissions.
American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently…
Milan Varda interviews Filip Ejdus, Associate Professor of Security Studies at the University of Belgrade, about the view of European security from the periphery.
How has the…
Common Enemies: Crime, Policy, and Politics in Australia-Indonesia Relations by Michael McKenzie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 272 pp., $90 hardcover 9780198815754
While…
Hala Hanna lays out Solve's 2019 Global Challenges for innovators looking to support the SDGs.
A shared, connected future built by scalable innovative solutions could be the…
New approaches to development that have responsibility for climate change and inequality at their heart are needed.
The tropical cyclone rampaging south-eastern Africa has been…
Structural inequalities and discrimination are at the core of the caste system. Caste determines social hierarchy and restricts people's access to fundamental human rights. It…
Yuho Nishimura, Director of the International Department at The Genron NPO and a GGF 2030 Fellow, discusses the upcoming G20 meeting in Japan, and Tokyo’s priorities during…
Jason Hickel argues that a famous graph purporting to show how globalisation has addressed inequality hides more than it reveals.
There is a powerful infographic that has been…
Book Review – A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism by Jeffrey D. Sachs. New York: Columbia University Press 2018. 272 pp., £13.99 hardcover 9780231188487, £13.99 e…
Branko Milanovic on why we accept 'second best' solutions to climate change.
There are obvious and (to some people) surprising similarities between global climate…
Duncan Green with some ideas for a more realistic, human-centred, foreign aid agenda.
Last week I went along to the annual conference of DFID’s Social Development Advisers (SDAs…
Scott L. Montgomery explores how climate change deniers have had the monopoly of ideas around energy use in the United States of America.
Max Lerner was a Russian…
Pupils in 60 countries went on strike from school on March 15, 2019, to demand urgent action from the world’s leaders on climate change. Here, a scientist answers teenagers’…
Conducting research in new socio-economic spaces can bring unexpected challenges. For two researchers in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo their identities as white…