United Nations report highlights the opportunities and challenges of Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Developing Countries
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) schemes have the ability…
China builds influence using African parliaments
The People’s Republic of China has fully financed the construction of…
European War and Global Pandemic: The Renewed Validity of Active Non-Alignment
The war in Ukraine is a turning point in the international relations…
Human microchip implants take center stage
Zhanna L. Malekos Smith argues that implanted microchips offer…
Brazil's insurgency should serve as warning to the Global South: The West will not protect us
At least 39 people have been charged following the …
Columnists
“Every day, capitalism proves that it is absolutely indifferent to human flourishing,” says author…
Mainstream economics failed miserably in addressing the financial crisis of 2007-08, so why would…
What leads to arrogance towards the Global South, what German foreign policy can do better and why…
C.J. Polychroniou and Nancy Folbre discuss how a feminist political economy not only…
Scott Montgomery on George Santos' assemblage strategy for political success.
George…
Scott Montgomery argues against an absolutist position in the debate over monument removal.
This…
The ground is well prepared for neofascism to fill the void left by class war wrought by…
Opinion and Analysis
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) schemes have the ability to help smallholder farmers…
The People’s Republic of China has fully financed the construction of at least 15 new African…
On 8 November 2022, the Research Workshop on China and the Global South was held online, jointly…
The war in Ukraine is a turning point in the international relations of the Twenty-first century.…
Zhanna L. Malekos Smith argues that implanted microchips offer alluring benefits of convenience and…
At least 39 people have been charged following the riots in Brazil’s capital…
Max Lawson introduces Oxfam’s 2023 Davos report, ‘Survival of the Richest: How we must tax the…
Essays
Innovation ecosystems are said to vary across China. By examining all the startups operating in…
China’s emergence as a powerful challenger to the US’s and the west’s well-crystallized position…
Russian aggression in Ukraine has spotlighted longstanding calls for reform of the United Nations (…
Reviews
Political Settlements and Development: Theory, Evidence, Implications by Tim Kelsall, Nicolai…
Financing the Future: Multilateral Development Banks in the Changing World Order of the 21st…
Southwood, R. (2022) Africa 2.0: Inside a Continent’s Communications Revolution. Manchester…