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Sean Lang explores what lessons Trump might have taken away from the D-Day ceremonies and what they may mean for the future of global cooperation.
In 1944 the blimps above London…
The government's plan to move away from traditional methods of measuring growth and development are in keeping with a global push for a more purposeful capitalism.
Prime Minister…
In this conversation, hosted by the SSRC’s Media & Democracy program, program officer Mike Miller revisits an often overlooked topic—expectations and predictions for the…
In collaboration with Karl-Andrew Woltin from Roehampton University and Kai Sassenberg from the University of Tübingen, Nihan Albayrak introduce a new paper on approaches to…
James Dyke discusses his personal tipping point.
Everybody seems to be talking about climate change again. This time, a great deal of the coverage has been sympathetic to the idea…
Aliza Luft tackles a question essential for social science and for human rights work—how, and how much, does dehumanizing propaganda spread by planners of genocide affect the “…
Duncan Green on what a recent MA course taught with Global Policy's Tom Kirk tells us about the future of activism.
I’ve spent the last three weeks buried in marking. For most…
China in the Global Political Economy: From Developmental to Entrepreneurial by Gordon C.K. Cheung. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2018. 224 pp., £75 hardcover 978-1-78471-490-1.
While…
What if collective introspection made us into better campaigners?
Campaigners aren’t known for being contemplative. By definition they are trying to change something beyond…
Dimitris Xygalatas engages the problems of the generalizability and comparability of research results and their “ecological validity.” Xygalatas argues for the “methodological…