Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

12 August 2016
The Global Transformation: History, Modernity, and the Making of International Relations by Barry Buzan and George Lawson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 426 pp,…
11 August 2016
James Der Derian is Michael Hintze Chair of International Security and Director of the Centre of International Security Studies at the University of Sydney. He writes books and…
10 August 2016
Digital Dilemmas: Power, Resistance and the Internet by M. I. Franklin. Oxford University Press. 2013. 0199982708. How are digital landscapes being incorporated into public space…
10 August 2016
Duncan Green explores Unilever’s approach to working with governments and civil society for developmental outcomes in the regions it operates. Oxfam works with lots of big…
09 August 2016
The human rights movement can be seen as the ongoing but failing struggle to close the gap between the abstract man of the Declarations and the empirical human being. Has it…
08 August 2016
In the second of this three-part series Mubashar Hasan explains how Islamists manipulate a religious concept to justify transnational terrorism, and to mount challenges to Western…
05 August 2016
Dani Rodrik explores what China's role may mean for the global trade system. The global trade system faces an important turning point at the end of this year, one that was…
04 August 2016
This briefing updates an earlier ORG report on climate change and points to the significance of the recent acceleration in global warming in relation to the need for a radical…
04 August 2016
"Does the United Nations Still Matter?" It often seems so irrelevant to the problems of the modern age that those words appeared last year on the front page of The New…
03 August 2016
Sentiment analysis is an increasingly popular metric for news and social media platforms. Alison Powell reflects here on the implications of sentiment analysis and its…