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Thomas Hale and Yixian Sun call for serious research and dialogue to make China to a global environmental leader.
What would it take for China to be an international environmental…
In the third and final part of a series on the implications and consequences of the cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Simon Fraser asks ‘What…
Kodili Henry Chukwuma argues that the decision could serve broader political functions in relation to the ongoing war in Gaza.
The decision by the Home Secretary to proscribe…
Mark Beeson urges the international community to organise a collective response to America’s unilateralism.
For nearly eighty years we have been accustomed to the United States…
Precarious Urbanism: Displacement, Belonging and the Reconstruction of Somali Cities by Jutta Bakonyi and Peter Chonka. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. 234 pp., £80…
Jasmin Lorch argues that European support to human rights NGOs, critical civil society and free media is not merely a “nice-to-have“. Instead, it directly serves European…
Jianyong Yue revisits the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown through a developmental lens and invites reflection on the longer-term consequences of privileging stability over political…
Liana Ghukasyan argues that what we need now is not a return to the past, but a reinvention, and explores what that may entail.
Multilateralism is bruised but not broken. The…
Elkhan Nuriyev outlines three potential scenarios for the unfolding conflict.
The Middle East has once again been plunged into the flames of open conflict. Following …
Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat on how unchecked privatization is turning a sacred duty into a business transaction.
In late May, Heri Kiswanto boarded a plane to Jeddah alongside his…