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The Crisis of Citizenship in the Arab World edited by Roel Meijer and Nils Butenschøn. Leiden: Brill, 2017. 544 pp., €149 hardcover 9789004340565, €138 e-book 9789004340985
Given…
Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists and the Making of Global China. Julian Gewirtz. Harvard University Press. 2017.
I can still remember the days when we sang…
As antisemitism appears to be on the rise across a number of countries, Gervase Phillips provides important background.
Antisemitism is on the march. From the far-right…
Can a model for facilitating the integration of refugees into local labor markets and economies be found from ongoing research in and around Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh?
Just ask the…
As a trade war looms, James Parisot and Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. explore the USA's response to rising powers.
The world appears to be shifting into an era of intensified…
Irene Bucelli, of the LSE and Franziska Mager, of Oxfam GB, summarize the results from an Oxfam volunteer research project.
When it comes to inequality, a growing body of evidence…
One morning in 1914, Henry Ford made an announcement that shocked the US, if not the whole world. A Cleveland newspaper reported that it “shot like a blinding rocket through the…
English has achieved prime status by becoming the most widely spoken language in the world – if one disregards proficiency – ahead of Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. English is…
You can't understand the Cambridge Analytica scandal until you understand what its parent company does.
"The Gulf War Did Not Take Place". This audacious claim was made by the…
The business innovation author and speaker on 'onlyness' and how to unlock our individual and collective capacities.
As a former executive at Apple and Autodesk, and consultant…
In a world that is dominated by money, as the only universal means of exchange, how would our democracies, economies and societies look like if values were a central part of our…
I’ve just been reading the UK Labour Party’s Green Paper on International Development (out this week). ‘Green Papers’ are not about the colour (this one is actually red), but ‘…
Why agency and privacy matter for refugee communities.
Ahmed and the Internet
Ahmed fled Daraa in Syria nearly two years ago. He registered as a refugee in Jordan, but the same…
The Middle East is heating up again, in part due to President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The Trump administration has also incited upset with its…
TNI today presents its Atlas of Utopias (click here to see the website), part of the Transformative Cities initiative, sharing 32 stories of radical transformation…