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Kyle Scott argues that countries that can foster equitable rural and urban development will be best placed to tackle deglobalization.
Almost at the outset of the COVID…
Leesa Danzek explores social media influencers as a tool for diplomacy.
Search “#ukrainewar” on TikTok and you may find a handful of Ukrainian soldiers dancing to James…
Danny Bradlow shows how it became standard practice for multilateral financing institutions like the World Bank to have an independent citizen driven accountability…
Thuy Pham examines AI’s role in the classroom and outlines how this new and useful educational tool could be an asset for younger generations.
Artificial intelligence was once a…
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria by Daniel E Agbiboa. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2022. £75 hardcover…
Rajat Khosla and David McCoy argue that correcting power imbalances and ensuring accountability are at the heart of transforming the global health agenda.
The last few years have…
Feminist Global Health Security. Clare Wenham. Oxford University Press. 2021.
In Feminist Global Health Security, Clare Wenham challenges the marginalisation of women in…
Bright Simons argues that the absorption channel for development finance, rather than fundraising, is the main bottleneck the Bank's new President must address.…
Pelle Axelsson interviews the well known WMD hunter.
Hans Blix was born in Uppsala in 1928. He studied law at Uppsala University and later continued his studies at Cambridge…
Tom Kirk argues that INGOs should be objects of study as much as the outcomes of their programmes.
I have long argued that a ‘public authorities’ lens can inform the way we think…
Stuart Mills tempers expectations and fears around the new AI driven tool.
ChatGPT is a remarkable technological development, capable of writing compelling prose that comes across…
Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh and Muhammad Ittefaq have shed light on the announcement of the proposed loss and damage fund, arguing it a monumental achievement for climate activists and…
Davina Cooper explores an increasingly common practice in private, pubic and professional spaces.
Pronoun sharing has become an increasingly mainstream practice. Today, pronouns…
The University of Johannesburg and the Centre for Public Authority and International Development at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics and…
Nicholas Ross Smith, from the University of Canterbury, argues that in light of the war in Ukraine which has so far elicited a fairly muted response from actors from the Global…