Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

27 July 2016
Social Media for Academics by Mark Carrigan. London, UK, SAGE Publishing, 2016. 208pp. 144629868X. While social media is an increasingly important part of academic life that can…
27 July 2016
Norm Change in International Relations: Linked Ecologies in UN Peacekeeping Operations by John Karlsrud. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016. 172 pp., £90 hardcover 978-1-1389-…
26 July 2016
Duncan Green explores how systems thinking means activists should be rethinking their roles and applying them to the way NGOs (and others) do research. If you stick around in your…
25 July 2016
In this exclusive interview for Global Policy Journal, Graciela Chichilnisky discusses the impact of climate change on the global economy and sketches out a vision of alternative…
22 July 2016
Brett Heasman reflects on the psychological impact of the EU referendum. Whether you voted to remain or leave, the EU referendum has unquestionably altered our cultural landscape…
21 July 2016
The European Union (EU) had been lurching from one crisis to the next even before a majority of British voters expressed their desire to leave it. While staying away from the…
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,…