Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

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…
02 August 2016
Jane Kirkpatrick interviews Richard Murphy, author of the Joy of Tax, about the power of tax to shape societies, globalisation and tax justice, and the difficulty of teaching…
02 August 2016
Too small to influence economics, too bureaucratic to be social movements, banned from politics and removed from the societies they’re trying to change, where do NGOs go…
01 August 2016
Power Shift: On the New Global Order by Richard Falk. London: Zed Books. 1783607939. In Power Shift: On the New Global Order, Richard Falk examines the challenges and changes to…
01 August 2016
In the first of a three-part series, Mubashar Hasan explains how Islamists manipulate a religious concept to justify transnational terrorism, and to mount challenges to Western…
29 July 2016
Carlo Carraro explores current and potential future efforts to measure and evaluate progress towards the SDGs. In September 2015, the UN Assembly unanimously approved its new…