Tom Kirk

Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

Post Archive

25 January 2018
Materialism gets a bad press. There is an assumption that people who prioritise “things” are inherently selfish. The stereotype is that of highly materialistic people, living in a…
23 January 2018
Yemen is suffering one of the world’s largest humanitarian catastrophes. To resolve it, it is necessary to look beyond the national conflict. Yemen’s civil war is complex. It’s a…
22 January 2018
The proclaimed support of the EU for gender equality is seen as one element in a wider programme of colonization, whereby what was once Marxism is now replaced by gender politics…
21 January 2018
While there has been increasing attention paid to the role of emotions in international relations, generally the same cannot be said of international law –with some exceptions.…
18 January 2018
During academic seminars, any given question is 2.5 times more likely to be asked by a male than a female audience member. Alecia Carter reports on this research, which suggests…
17 January 2018
A ballistic missile warning alarm that was wrongly triggered in Hawaii recently rams home the importance of the way interfaces are designed to prevent such major bloopers from…
17 January 2018
How can we face up to the enormity of environmental collapse? How can we collectively build a politics for the Anthropocene? Laurie Laybourn-Langton interviews activist and former…
16 January 2018
David Duriesmith identifies tensions created by efforts to ‘engage’ men and boys in Women, Peace and Security, and introduces his new working paper: ‘Engaging men and boys in the…
15 January 2018
Stephenie Foster argues we need transport systems that work for everyone. Today, 55 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and by 2050, that number is…
15 January 2018
Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know by Ray Fisman and Miriam A. Golden. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2017. 336 pp, £51 hardcover 9780190463984, £10.99 paperback…
12 January 2018
Jonathan Birch considers the development of large-scale human cooperation. The scale of human cooperation If you start with the assumption that biological altruism evolves because…
11 January 2018
Vladimir Kmec explores what Brexit may mean for international peacebuilding efforts. As a form of international assistance to post-conflict societies, peacebuilding addresses both…