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Happiness Explained: What Human Flourishing Is and What We Can Do to Promote It by Paul Anand. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 160 pp, £12.99 hardcover 9780198735458…
In the current climate of global uncertainty, Latin America is in fact sitting on a wealth of opportunity. This opportunity can be realised through the coming together of two…
This essay is part of the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project - an initiative of the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced…
Filippo Dionigi argues that despite the recent presidential election nothing much has changed in Lebanon's domestic politics or its international relations.
From being the…
Ann Florini argues that agreements on climate and energy in 2015, and rapidly developing technologies, are creating opportunities that policymakers should seize.
Until recently,…
LSE alumnus Samer Abdelnour examines the false causality in the gender-based violence and improved cook stoves agenda.
There is growing interest among humanitarian actors in…
Nayef Al-Rodhan argues that we live in the age of divisive politics and neuroscience may help explain this impasse.
After Brexit, hate crime has spiked in the UK and “…
Faced with a future that presents itself as non-negotiable, the temptation is to turn towards the past.
When Harry Potter discovers the Mirror of Erised in The…
Alex Papadovassilakis argues that cities must put communities’ participation at the centre of public-private partnerships.
In October, during the third UN-Habitat Conference…
What makes for and where are the most civic-minded citizens?
If you live in Myanmar you are much more likely to give money to charity than if you live in China.
That’s…