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As the vote on Britain’s EU membership draws closer, Ted Schrecker explores Québec’s own history of referendums to offer an outsider’s perspective.
As a Canadian political…
"Autonomous weapons are artificial intelligence systems that are programmed to kill.” Future of Life InstituteThe development of lethal artificial intelligence will pose…
El Poeta, directed by Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega, Loteria Films, 2015. 55 minutes, distributed by Bull Frog Films, DVD ISBN 1-94154-546-7
On March 28, 2011, seven…
With China at the helm, South-South cooperation on climate finance can make 2016 a historic year, write Thomas Hale and Peter Ogden.
The December 2015 UN climate summit in…
Marghoob Saleem Butt, Executive Director of the IPHRC, argues that despite a slow start there are hopeful signs that the implementation of UNHRC Resolution 16/18 is about to pick…
Western policies on Syria were misguided. And they were not in line with basic responsibility to protect principles.
Syria is the latest large-scale humanitarian tragedy. Syria,…
This year the Global Leadership Initiative at the University of Sheffield led by Dr Chay Brooks and Prof Tim Vorley have taken a team of social scientists acting as policy…
Trade-Related Agricultural Policy Analysis edited by David Orden. Singapore: World Scientific 2015. 480 pp, £91 hardcover 978-981-4616-21-8
Agricultural protection, commonly used…
In March 2016, the Global Leadership Initiative at the University of Sheffield, led by Professor Jason Heyes and Dr. Thomas Hastings led a team of social scientists acting as…
The Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) is run by the American organisation Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), and is now in its eighth year. It attracts individuals from…