Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Tom Kirk
Post Archive
The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards by Annie Tracy Samuel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022. 302 pp., £75…
Lydia Poole introduces a new report that shows why pre-arranged financing is a critical component in improving crisis response but that it requires support from international…
I warned leaders at COP28 that the age of oil is over. If Sultan Al Jaber’s climate action plan gets through, it certainly will be.
The world has been in shock and awe over the…
As the EU’s diplomatic service, the European External Action Service (EEAS) has an important role to play in EU climate diplomacy. Drawing on a new study, Joseph Earsom …
Alexander Gale examines the strategic rationale driving the Hungarian government’s foreign policy.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán perturbed his Western allies this October…
Duncan Green explores an event and paper on 'Social Norms, Religion and Family Laws in the MENA Region'.
Bafflingly, I was recently invited to an online ‘Expert Group Meeting’ to…
Israel’s war in Gaza has left Saudi Arabia hedging its bets on the international stage and has stalled its tentative rapprochement with Iran. How is the ongoing conflict set to…
I’ve just spent a busy few days giving feedback on students’ proposals for their assignments in my activism class at the LSE, which I teach along with Global Policy's Tom Kirk.…
Nick Strogov explores how and why authoritarian states encourage civil society.
Over time, liberal thinkers have believed that a strong civil society in Russia could counteract…
As ChatGPT noted, “AI has the potential to bring significant benefits to society, but it is crucial to manage its implementation and ensure that it is used in an ethical and…
Robert Diab argues that we need to change the framing to protect civilians in Gaza.
In 1949, Hannah Arendt, who had recently fled from Nazi Germany, pointed out a paradox at the…
M. Rodwan Abouharb and Bernhard Reinsberg argue that the IMF should require borrower countries to impose loan conditions in a non-partisan way.
Sri Lanka received a bailout from…
Taking a sideways look at George Ritzer’s famous McDonaldization thesis, Titus Alexander argues that rather than being an iron cage, social scientists have much to gain from…
This post by Oxfam’s Richard Stanforth and Magnus Corfixen first appeared on Oxfam’s Views and Voices blog.
Why are Oxfam and other humanitarian organisations…
Latin American Foreign Policies in the New World Order: The Active Non-Alignment Option, edited by Carlos Fortin, Jorge Heine, and Carlos Ominami. London: Anthem Press, 2023. 304…