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Duncan Green on what INGOs can do in fast developing semi-authoritarian countries.  Oxfam country directors face an unenviable task – juggling the daily management…
To mark Europe Day, 2019 – Charta 2020 is a vision for a democratic and egalitarian European Union, and a demand to recognize 20 European public goods that are essential…
Technology has massive potential to deliver a positive impact on our society – when people are at the heart of it. Civil society organizations have been harnessing technology to…
Book Review – Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Concepts, Methods and Policy Options edited by R. Mechler, L. Bouwer, T. Schinko, S. Surminski, and J. Linnerooth-Bayer.…
Nicholas Beuret on how global warming has radically changed the economies and fortunes of the world’s nations. Those least responsible for global warming will suffer the most…
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 10 years…
Agnes Budzyn argues that data will gradually return to the hands of those who generate it.  In 2017, the Economist published a widely referenced article claiming that …
Daniel Cullen explores photojournalist Tim Hetherington's evocative work on male military masculinities. On 20 April 2011, photojournalist Tim Hetherington was killed while…
Talk is rife about the prospects of limited nationalization should Labour win the next election in the United Kingdom. Coupled with the recent Extinction Rebellion, it has been…
Two weeks ago Suay Ozkula and I led a delegation of eight students from the Global Leadership Initiative in the Social Sciences  at the University of…