Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

01 April 2019
Nicholas Beuret on why we need to look within countries and households to understand the source of dangerous emissions. American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently…
01 April 2019
Milan Varda interviews Filip Ejdus, Associate Professor of Security Studies at the University of Belgrade, about the view of European security from the periphery. How has the…
29 March 2019
Common Enemies: Crime, Policy, and Politics in Australia-Indonesia Relations by Michael McKenzie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 272 pp., $90 hardcover 9780198815754 While…
27 March 2019
Hala Hanna lays out Solve's 2019 Global Challenges for innovators looking to support the SDGs. A shared, connected future built by scalable innovative solutions could be the…
26 March 2019
New approaches to development that have responsibility for climate change and inequality at their heart are needed. The tropical cyclone rampaging south-eastern Africa has been…
26 March 2019
Structural inequalities and discrimination are at the core of the caste system. Caste determines social hierarchy and restricts people's access to fundamental human rights. It…
23 March 2019
Yuho Nishimura, Director of the International Department at The Genron NPO and a GGF 2030 Fellow, discusses the upcoming G20 meeting in Japan, and Tokyo’s priorities during…
22 March 2019
Jason Hickel argues that a famous graph purporting to show how globalisation has addressed inequality hides more than it reveals. There is a powerful infographic that has been…
21 March 2019
Book Review – A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism by Jeffrey D. Sachs. New York: Columbia University Press 2018. 272 pp., £13.99 hardcover 9780231188487, £13.99 e…
20 March 2019
Branko Milanovic on why we accept 'second best' solutions to climate change.    There are obvious and (to some people) surprising similarities between global climate…