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"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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Natasha Agarwal and Zheng Wang investigate the impact of US EXIM Bank on US exports.
With heightening debate around the functions and lending activities/practices of national…
Harvey M. Sapolsky argues that, despite their knowledge of foreign policy, America's next Commander in Chief may not be that different from the last.
The American electorate…
GP’s General Editor Dani Rodrik explores ongoing debates over technological innovation, and its consequences for productivity, employment, and equity. This post first…