Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

27 June 2024
ENSURED has an exciting 30 months ahead. As we get started, we want to reflect on the questions that set the project in motion and what is coming down the pipeline. To tackle…
24 June 2024
Liana Ghukasyan argues that a leadership fit for contemporary challenges must be visionary and inclusive, whilst willing to collaborate and distribute decision-making…
19 June 2024
Global Policy's Tom Kirk introduces his new chapter for the How Change Happens’ 2nd Edition, published last week. When I was invited to contribute a chapter on digital activism, I…
18 June 2024
Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change by Christopher Shaw. Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2024. 148 pp., £135 hardcover 9781138615045, £36.99 paperback 9781138615069, £…
12 June 2024
Anticipating a second term for Trump, Karl T. Muth argues that some immigration is in the national interest and strategically vital. I make here the controversial…
06 June 2024
The Concertation Impulse in World Politics: Contestation over Fundamental Institutions and the Constrictions of Institutionalist International Relations by Andrew F Cooper. Oxford…
05 June 2024
In an area dominated by discussions about devastating wars and humanitarian principles of neutrality and impartiality on social media, Liana Ghukasyan makes the case that it is…
04 June 2024
Over thirteen years, Bashar al-Assad's regime has committed numerous crimes against humanity in Syria, including the killing of civilians, and the displacement of inhabitants.…
23 May 2024
Brian Stoddart unpicks why international education finds itself under attack and argues for a new approach. Global affairs have likely reached yet another major inflection…
22 May 2024
Duncan Green overviews a radical proposal for the UK in a changing world. Just been reading The World in 2040: Renewing the UK’s Approach to International Affairs. In many ways,…