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What does the term "globalization" mean? Is it a strictly economic phenomenon or does it involve several dimensions? How it is currently presented in the middle of the digital…
How can you forget when the internet won’t let you?
I have just taken an entire website and gigabytes of data offline. It covered a highly successful series of conferences on the…
Jason Hickel argues that we must not forget why inequality matters.
How should we measure inequality? There are two metrics that economists use: relative and absolute. In…
What if our homes were alive? I don’t mean smart homes with the disembodied voice of Alexa deciding the setting for your living room spotlights. I mean actually alive – growing,…
Why is it that just 1p of a £2.50 cup of coffee goes to the farmer who cultivated and harvested the coffee beans?
Mainstream politics in Europe and North America is increasingly…
Resilient Communities: Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War by Jana Krause. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018. 306 pp., £75 hardcover 9781108471114
The…
Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil is at its highest rate in a decade, according to new satellite data. This comes after president Jair Bolsonaro has loosened…
Madhu Raghavendra and Amiya Kumar Das highlight that India is strengthening its maternal health governance through comprehensive national programmes that address health and social…
The Logic of Financial Nationalism: The Challenges of Cooperation and the Role of International Law by Federico Lupo-Pasini. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017. 306 pp., £…
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for its Renewal by William J. Burns. New York: Random House, 2019.
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the…