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Researching gender-based violence in African conflicts is ethically treacherous. A new series on Open Democracy looks at how researchers can avoid the worst pitfalls while working…
Misheck Mutize explores the shortfalls in the regulatory mechanism for international credit rating agencies.
International credit rating agencies have had their fair share of…
Can liberalism be saved from obsolescence and does this really matter? Did the recent European elections spare us the irresistible fall of the establishment?
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Every year, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report examines national gender gaps as they stand today, and projects recent trends into the future to map the…
Pressures from global North countries on the global South to adopt multilateral rules on digital trade exemplifies coercive networks of knowledge production and dissemination –…
In this Democracy Papers essay, George Marcus addresses the important role that emotions play in politics. In a timely contribution to essays on the Anxieties of…
At the heart of the current US trade war with China is tariffs on imports like steel, sorghum and silicon chips. But, with the growing role of data and digital…
Milan Varda and Sophie Nepali interview Global Policy’s Board Member Suresh Nanwani about the challenges and opportunities under the current regime of international development.…
Mary Kaldor introduces the idea of 'civicness' and why its important in conflict-affected places.
The Oxford English dictionary defines civicness as ‘relating to a city or town,…
Emrys Schoemaker and Tom Kirk introduce Caribou Digital’s new project to develop an identity ecosystem mapping tool for use by development and civil society organizations. This…
Presenting evidence from the Harbingers Study, a three-year longitudinal study of Early Career Researchers (ECRs), David Nicholas assesses the extent to which the new…
Sean Lang explores what lessons Trump might have taken away from the D-Day ceremonies and what they may mean for the future of global cooperation.
In 1944 the blimps…
The government's plan to move away from traditional methods of measuring growth and development are in keeping with a global push for a more purposeful capitalism.
Prime…
In this conversation, hosted by the SSRC’s Media & Democracy program, program officer Mike Miller revisits an often overlooked topic—expectations and predictions for…
In collaboration with Karl-Andrew Woltin from Roehampton University and Kai Sassenberg from the University of Tübingen, Nihan Albayrak introduce a new paper on approaches to…