Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

18 June 2018
This post is the third in a five part series from Jakob Vestergaard exploring reforms to the EMU that the Commission is hoping that member states will commit to at the end of…
15 June 2018
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman. New York: Custom House 2017. 352 pp, $24.99 hardcover 9780062654618, $9.99 e-book 9780062654458 The war…
14 June 2018
The wheels have started rolling on China’s globalisation project, and it is less a case of globalisation with Chinese characteristics than it is a complete remodeling of the…
13 June 2018
Under the presidency of Vladimir Putin, Russia has become increasingly isolated from the norms and mechanisms of international society. This policy brief explores this trend…
13 June 2018
The 2018 G7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec was thrown into disarray by President Trump’s imposition of punitive tariffs on other members of the group. Much of the action centred on…
12 June 2018
Rapid advances in technologies – in areas such as robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, synthetic biology and clean technologies – are fundamentally changing…
12 June 2018
With the recent diplomatic fluctuations between both the US and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and the US and Iran, the issue of nuclear proliferation has…
11 June 2018
This policy brief examines the environmental theme of the 44th G7, how countries have previously addressed the issues of climate, energy and the environment, and the novel…
11 June 2018
The 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represented a concerted effort by the global community to recognise and tackle worldwide injustices, in the form of poverty,…
11 June 2018
Feminists have long argued that gender relations need to be taken seriously as an integral element of the analysis of every social problem, rather than being ‘added on’. In…