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Robert Hii explores ongoing efforts to reconcile the livelihoods of rapeseed and palm oil farmers with threats to biodiversity and climate change.  A new United Nations…
This post by GP's Online Editor is part of a series exploring ‘public authority’ based on research at LSE’s Centre for Public Authority and International…
Euan Burns examines which remittance-dependent countries are likely to be most affected by the Covid-19 global pandemic. The different ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic is…
Jasminka Dedić responds to a recent post by Branko Milanović on ‘magical thinking’ among the proponents of the degrowth agenda. Ljubljana, 1 March 2021 Honorable professor…
Issues affecting gender equality are frequently debated in the European Parliament. Drawing on a recent study, Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo present…
Karola Klatt explores Japan’s contradictory moves towards a nuclear free future. Ten years after the devastating tsunami and triple core meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear…
Nation states, we’re told, are in a state of decline. What, then, is the alternative? Is a post-state world possible? What would a post-state world even look like? How would the…
Oussama Mezoui arges that developed countries' pandemic responses should be a wake up call for the aid and development sector's conditionalities.  The pandemic has shown us…
Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey examines Ghana’s insurgency development, state response and likely implication of a failure of early counter-insurgency. Weak States are more vulnerable to…
Hans Gutbrod examines the recent Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through the just war tradition and asks whether it is still useful for unpicking modern conflicts.  Last…