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Moonhawk Kim explores the breakdown of America's post-war domestic-international bargain.
Ruggie’s (1982) “embedded liberalism” provided the framework for understanding the nature…
Kevin P. Gallagher's commentary for the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) series explores China's growing passion for green finance, south-south development cooperation, and global…
How should universities respond to the global rise in populism?
“We are going to survive this phase, because basic education and research – which is based on facts and higher…
Stefan Kossoff (DFID’s governance czar) reviews the new WDR, published this week.
For those of us working on governance this week’s publication of the 2017 World Development…
Unless life is uncomfortable, there’s no room for transformation.
Does it matter that Micah Johnson was killed by a robot, albeit one controlled by human hands? Johnson shot five…
The years since 9/11 have cast a dark shadow over global politics in many respects. But we have the option of recalling where the pursuit of authoritarianism leads.
The…
A powerful new report finally kills off any remaining intellectual veil for a broken economics that is breaking society.
Sometimes an ideology is so brilliantly propagated that…
Hakan Altinay explores the transformative potential of conversations.
A conversation is a ubiquitous activity in which we engage without much reflection. It may nevertheless be…
Gramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and its Narratives. Kate Crehan. Duke University Press. 2016.
In Gramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and its Narratives, Kate Crehan examines a…
A paradox: the more “communist” the sharing license used in the digital commons (no restrictions on sharing), the more capitalist the practice (multinationals can use it for free…