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In 1984 the Mexico City Policy, or ‘global gag rule’, was enacted by the United States, restricting federal funds to international family planning institutions…
The Military in Post-Revolutionary Iran: the evolution and roles of the Revolutionary Guards by Hesam Forozan. New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2016. 255 pp, £100 hardcover…
Andrew Chakhoyan asks what can the U.N. learn from the world of start-ups?
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced “Facebook's plan to bring the global community together…
In part 1, Nikolaos Karagiannis briefly presents the main features and concerns associated with financialization in the present era of neoliberal globalization.
The era of…
So far, the nature of Christine Lagarde’s speeches and the discussions I had with Fund staff this week suggest that there is more work to be done.
Recent commentary on…
Matt Haikin, an ICT for Development (ICT4D) practitioner, summarizes a new paper on digital development in East Africa reports, and the challenges for Oxfam and other…
Yolanda Jinxin Ma explores how open data could benefit the government of China.
In the past decade, open data has grown out of a conceptual discussion into a global movement.…
Helen Clark examines trends in global governance and considers what is needed going forward to tackle issues beyond the capacity of individual nation states to resolve on their…
Duncan Green explores a new paper from IDS' Robin Luckham on the contested concept of security.
I have been known in the past to be a little snippy about the writing style of…
C.J. Polychroniou and Nikolaos Karagiannis explore Syriza’s inability to resist the pressures of the international creditors.
It's been seven years since the…