Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

25 June 2019
Misheck Mutize explores the shortfalls in the regulatory mechanism for international credit rating agencies. International credit rating agencies have had their fair share of …
21 June 2019
Can liberalism be saved from obsolescence and does this really matter? Did the recent European elections spare us the irresistible fall of the establishment? I find useful points…
19 June 2019
Every year, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report examines national gender gaps as they stand today, and projects recent trends into the future to map the likely…
18 June 2019
Pressures from global North countries on the global South to adopt multilateral rules on digital trade exemplifies coercive networks of knowledge production and dissemination –…
18 June 2019
In this Democracy Papers essay, George Marcus addresses the important role that emotions play in politics. In a timely contribution to essays on the Anxieties of Democracy, Marcus…
14 June 2019
At the heart of the current US trade war with China is tariffs on imports like steel, sorghum and silicon chips. But, with the growing role of data and digital technology in the…
12 June 2019
Milan Varda and Sophie Nepali interview Global Policy’s Board Member Suresh Nanwani about the challenges and opportunities under the current regime of international development.…
11 June 2019
Mary Kaldor introduces the idea of 'civicness' and why its important in conflict-affected places. The Oxford English dictionary defines civicness as ‘relating to a city or town,…
11 June 2019
Emrys Schoemaker and Tom Kirk introduce Caribou Digital’s new project to develop an identity ecosystem mapping tool for use by development and civil society organizations. This…
10 June 2019
Presenting evidence from the Harbingers Study, a three-year longitudinal study of Early Career Researchers (ECRs), David Nicholas assesses the extent to which the new…