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Six of the twelve candidates for the job of UN Secretary-General are women, but in the first informal vote at the Security Council only one woman made it to the top five. Why?…
David Bollier reports on a meeting of a diverse group of twenty commons-oriented activists, academics, policy experts and project leaders for three days in Lehnin, Germany,…
What role should social scientists play in society? Louisa Hotson explores the evolution of the social sciences through four periods in the history of political science…
Oxfam’s private sector adviser Erinch Sahan thinks the times are ripe for a paradigm shift
In a former life (i.e. six years ago), I worked as a development…
GP’s General Editor Dani Rodrik argues that the left helped construct the conditions for the right's current global resurgence. This post first appeared on Project…
In a new periodic feature, Global Policy’s Board Members recommend books that have caught their attention.
China’s Future? by David Shambaugh, Cambridge: Polity, 2016…
When Elon Musk talks about governance on Mars, what’s really scary are the implications for democracy on Earth.
Elon Musk made headlines recently at ReCode’s 2016 Code…
The Global Transformation: History, Modernity, and the Making of International Relations by Barry Buzan and George Lawson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 426 pp,…
James Der Derian is Michael Hintze Chair of International Security and Director of the Centre of International Security Studies at the University of Sydney. He writes books and…
Digital Dilemmas: Power, Resistance and the Internet by M. I. Franklin. Oxford University Press. 2013. 0199982708.
How are digital landscapes being incorporated into public space…