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This interview was conducted by Joel Sandhu for the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to…
Human rights regimes such as the European Convention on Human Rights are unlikely to shield citizens against the wave of authoritarianism threatening liberal democracies.
Shortly…
Steve Baines explores the possibility that all good things really can go together.
These are definitely not the research findings I expected to be presenting. The data in front of…
The 12th March was the world wide web’s 28th birthday. Here’s a message from its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on how the web has evolved, and what we must do to…
Democracy is in decline.
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) latest Democracy Index 2016 shows 72 countries experienced a decline in democratic values last year.…
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds. Lisa Messeri. Duke University Press. 2016.
In Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds, Lisa…
Charles Kenny explores the potential of a possible US International Organizations review.
There’s increasing appetite in the US to follow the UK model and launch a review…
Dr Nicola Rollock, lead author of the award-winning book The Colour of Class: the educational strategies of the Black middle classes, discusses race, equality and education…
The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts. Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins. Manchester University Press. 2016.
In The Econocracy: The Perils of…
Garth Le Pere explores Africa’s ongoing climb out of a peripheral global position and how the international community can work with it.
Despite the recent discourse about…