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Milan Babic argues that states’ strategic adaptation to neoliberal globalization grants them new powers in international politics. The ongoing transformation of the liberal world…
Other worlds are possible - the Pluriverse is breathing. The current planetary crisis has taken on a civilizational dimension. Never before have so many crucial aspects of life…
The success of populist parties is often viewed as an act of protest against ‘the establishment’. Drawing on new research, Bram Geurkink, Andrej Zaslove, Roderick…
Sukhayl Niyazov examines the ambiguous implications of the dollar’s dominant status that forces Washington to choose between nationalist and globalist approaches to international…
Duncan Green, Oxfam's Strategic Adviser, analyses recent responses to climate change activism and politics. Following on yesterday’s conversation with Matthew Lockwood, I was…
Having a son turned me into a pacifist not because I was an idealist, but because motherhood made me a realist. Why are we raising our children in a culture saturated with…
The Amazon, now on fire, has become the central political and geopolitical hot spot for humanity's right to its own future. Optimism is the gasoline that must feed the fight.…
Andrew Baker and Richard Murphy introduce their recent Global Policy article on a new framework for identifying and evaluating tax spillovers generated by national policies.…
Elle Young reports on discussions at the  fourth annual Global Challenges Summit, including the role that the North East can play as a ‘global development powerhouse for…
Over 100 organisations and academics sign a letter demanding a fair selection process for the next IMF managing director. To governors and executive directors of the IMF, The ‘…