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Carmen Leong explores how social media’s ‘weak ties’ can grow and sustain a movement for democratic reforms. The Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street are not the only media-driven…
Josephine Liebl, Oxfam’s global policy lead on displacement, looks ahead to the UN Summit in New York in September – and looks back on a heady few weeks negotiating its…
Piers Robinson outlines a post Chilcot Report research agenda. The Chilcot Report has delivered severe criticisms of the way in which the British government took Britain to war…
Michael Todd listened to a recent lecture by Gary King on the big data revolution in the social sciences. Professor King insists data is easy to come by and is in…
Johann Hari and Benjamin Ramm in conversation for OpenDemocracy's series on 'The Human Cost of Global Drug Policy'. Benjamin Ramm: One of the most interesting developments over…
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This is an excerpt from Time, Temporality and Global Politics – an E-IR Edited Collection. Available now on Amazon (UK, USA, Ca, Ger, Fra), in all good book stores, and via a free…
The Closing of the Net by Monica Horten. Polity Press. 2016. 1509506896 In The Closing of the Net, Monica Horten confronts the issue of how corporate structural power has…
Pledging a new commitment to climate action, the liberal government of Justin Trudeau will have to reconcile these initiatives with the economic boom generated by oil extraction.…