Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

19 July 2016
Gbenga Oduntan explores the difficulties faced by the Turkish plotters. The military coup attempted in Turkey has failed and its leaders have fled to Greece, where they are…
19 July 2016
The ILO oversees the global protection of workers’ rights. It should consider instigating and/or supporting litigation in courts to serve that purpose. A contribution to…
15 July 2016
What impact will Brexit have on the rest of the European Union in the coming years and decades? Antonio Lettieri writes that while some commentators have portrayed the result as a…
13 July 2016
Behavioural Scientists at the LSE explore what do we mean by, and what should we be measuring, when we talk about ‘happiness’. Your question sounds very pertinent,…
13 July 2016
Brexit is prompting a lot of discussion within the UK’s aid community right now. But while the focus is understandably on EC funding and exchange rates, there’s a…
12 July 2016
Mobile polling could revolutionize how civil society and human rights groups operate—if it’s done right. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on public…
08 July 2016
Kerry Brown unpicks why China may be looking at Brexit with some trepidation over its own domestic fractures. Ancient Chinese wisdom is something beloved by Chinese leaders…
07 July 2016
Decisions to go to war don’t just analyze whether we can win. That is the easy part: the superiority of the western military machine makes this an absolute. Did we really…
06 July 2016
The economy features prominently in the public debate, even though the jargon and decision-making behind it is completely inaccessible to much of the public. As a result, and to…
30 June 2016
Britain’s referendum on the European Union resulted in a decision to leave. For some, the vote represents one episode in a worrying global disillusionment with globalisation,…