Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

15 March 2015
Snared by geopolitical interests, post-9/11 interventions have too easily been captured by leading states. A robust law enforcement process must serve enforcers of law, not agents…
09 March 2015
Martha Molfetas explores the possibility of a ‘Petro-Spring’ in countries sufferring from low oil prices. The drop in oil prices has been a boon for oil importers and consumers,…
07 March 2015
This interview was conducted by Mirko Hohmann and Joel Sandhu for the ‘The Global Governance Futures 2025’ programme which brings together young professionals to look ahead and…
05 March 2015
Navanethem Pillay, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, discusses how the United Nations, its human rights mechanisms, and all of us as individuals, can help to advance…
03 March 2015
Shored Up, directed and produced by Ben Kalina. USA: Mangrove Media 2013. 84 minutes, $23 limited edition DVD; $295 educational DVD, distributed by Outcast films. Hot summer days…
03 March 2015
Gregory Chin and Hugo Dobson outline possible approaches for China's turn as G20 president. On 16 November 2014, the last day of the G20 summit in Brisbane, Australian Prime…
24 February 2015
Occupying Political Science: The Occupy Wall Street Movement from New York to the World, edited by Emily Welty, Matthew Bolton, Meghana Nayak, and Christopher Malone. New York:…
12 February 2015
Roland Benedikter and Georg Göschl report on the confidence on display at the third summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. On 28th January 2015, Heads of…
10 February 2015
How Effective Negotiation Management Promotes Multilateral Cooperation: The power of process in climate, trade and biosafety negotiations by Kai Monheim. London and New York:…
02 February 2015
International Mediation, by Paul F. Diehl and J. Michael Greig. Cambridge / Malden: Polity, 2012. 224 pp, £45 hardcover 978-0-7456-5330-3, £16.80 paperback 978-0-7456-…