Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

30 September 2016
David Ritter explores the World’s confusion over Australia’s lack of action over the deteriorating state of the Great Barrier Reef. There are aspects of every liberal…
29 September 2016
Mark Kersten explores what kind of criminal warrants the attention of the ICC. The trial of Ahmad al Faqi al Mahdi has exposed tensions over the kinds of perpetrators that the…
29 September 2016
Human rights scholarship and advocacy claim to be grounded in universality, yet both are anything but in their privileging the Western role in building an international human…
28 September 2016
How can we foster inter-disciplinary understandings of complex global issues? To foster a more comprehensive and holistic understanding of complex issues interdisciplinary…
28 September 2016
Peter Vanham explores what we, as individuals, may have to do to live in an aging world. Here’s a shocking insight: we’ll all live 100 years, and we’re not at…
27 September 2016
Global Democratic Theory: A Critical Introduction by Daniel Bray and Steven Slaughter. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015. 272 pp, £55 hardcover 978-0-7456-8087-3, £16.99…
26 September 2016
In this interview, Bue Rübner Hansen and Cameron Thibos explore how cities and activists across Europe are fighting their national governments to better welcome refugees. Cameron…
26 September 2016
For decades, the US has used sanctions against countries and regimes where they seek to encourage change. But what determines whether or not the US imposes sanctions in the first…
23 September 2016
Nadia Daar argues that Jim Kim’s upcoming interview for the position of World Bank President should be an opportunity rather than just a formality. Preparing for an…
22 September 2016
Veronica Barassi explores digital parenthood and the everyday construction of children’s digital profiles. She argues that children’s data flows are not only…