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AI for Peace by Branka Panic and Paige Arthur. Abingdon: Routledge 2024. 112 pp., £120 hardcover 9781032418384, £22.99 paperback 9781032418377, £20.69 e-book 9781003359982
The…
The end of coal signals a new energy security conundrum for Britain. Can Germany’s recent Gulf partnership offer a solution?
As September drew to a close, so too did…
Cameron Boyle discusses the myriad challenges facing global health and the steps the UK Government must take to achieve health equity.
We are living in an era of polycrisis.…
This blog reflects on the academic writing experiences of early career researchers in East Africa, building on discussions and writing diaries developed in the context of a…
Pouring billions into emergency projects without sufficient citizen input undermines effectiveness.
The bad news remains relentless these days – from the devastating war in…
Amal Chandra argues that India is no longer content with being a passive observer. Instead, it is now actively shaping the global order.
As the Russia-Ukraine conflict…
Veronika Bertram introduces the findings of a paper exploring the complexities of international insurance premium support for improving societies’ financial resilience…
The Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the Fund will be held in Washington DC the week of October 21 – 26, 2024. The BRICS+ summit will be held in Kazan, Russia, October 22 –…
Global Policy's Tom Kirk in discussion with students, colleagues and practitioners on combining academic learning with practical work in the development sector.
As we…
Emrys Schoemaker argues that we must recognize that DPI is as much about governing for outcomes as it is about technology per se.
There is a striking addition to the newly…
Steve Biko was undoubtedly the most influential South African liberation struggle theorist and activist of the 1970s. Rick Turner was arguably among the most…
In this podcast - the first in a new series for Global Policy - Tom Kirk hosts Jutta Bakonyi and Peter Chonka, authors of Precarious Urbanism: Displacement, belonging and the…
Alan Alexandroff talks to the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) project's Gregory T Chin about the BRICS+.
It is with pleasure that I was able to invite my colleague…
The AI Military Race: Common Good Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Denise Garcia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2023. 320 pp., £30 hardcover 9780192864604…
Glauco Ortolano argues that Freedom of Expression is still the X of a rather complex democratic equation.
George Orwell’s classic literary piece, 1984, seems to have found yet a…