Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

19 September 2016
How serious of an issue is climate change? Does global warming really threaten human civilization? Can it be reversed, or is it already late? In this exclusive interview for…
16 September 2016
David Held and Pietro Maffettone introduce the themes in their new edited volume ‘Global Political Theory’. It is literally impossible to shy away from global…
16 September 2016
Neoliberalism and Terror: Critical Engagements edited by Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Christopher Baker-Beall and Lee Jarvis. London/New York: Routledge, 2016, 198 pp, £95.00…
16 September 2016
Amartya Sen’s famous study of famines found that people died not because of a lack of food availability in a country, but because some people lacked entitlements to food.…
15 September 2016
The alternative is to recover the constitutive elements of the politics of accommodation, the core ideas of democratic public life mediated by the rule of law and accountable to…
14 September 2016
World leaders gather in New York on 19 September 2016 for a summit on large movements of refugees and migrants. Through this blog series the United Nations University Migration…
14 September 2016
After the recent statement by the German Minister of the Interior about the need to resume the transfer of asylum seekers to Greece under the Dublin Regulation, Solon Ardittis…
13 September 2016
Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration by David Miller. Harvard University Press. 2016. 0674088905 In Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of…
13 September 2016
Sian Sullivan explores whether the conservation of natural capital equates with the conservation of nature? The four-yearly World Conservation Congress of the International Union…
12 September 2016
Washington's move to limit proliferation of armed drones is part of its search for a sharper military-technological edge. The United States sent a senior official to the Arms…