Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

10 March 2022
Guest post from Anna Landre, one of our (Tom from GP and Duncan from F2P2) amazing students, who has bunked off class (with permission) to do some amazing work on Ukraine. And she…
08 March 2022
By empowering women, we make communities more resilient to the direct impacts of climate change. Women disproportionately bear the brunt of climate change. However, they are also…
08 March 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has met with fierce resistance from the Ukrainian military and from ordinary citizens. Drawing on survey evidence, Pippa Norris and …
04 March 2022
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia by Robtel Neajai Pailey. Cambridge University Press 2021. 250 pp., £75…
03 March 2022
Ali Fathollah-Nejad argues that the Biden and Raisi administrations have no other options but to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, but that this does not mean…
01 March 2022
Robert H. Wade takes on the challenging task of sketching the contours of a diplomatic solution to conflict in the Ukraine. I was among the large majority confident that…
28 February 2022
What do we mean when we talk about “realism”? Do we mean the Realism of IR, the realism of mature adults, or realism as many scientists understand the term? In 2007, Ken Booth…
25 February 2022
Jonas Ecke reflects on the life and work of Paul Farmer. Paul Farmer, a medical anthropologist and physician who served some of the world’s most vulnerable populations…
23 February 2022
In the upcoming Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI), authoritarian states are in the majority for the first time ever. But there are also signs of hope. "Democracy in crisis?"…
23 February 2022
Mosoka Fallah, Jonas Ecke and Sharon Abramowitz argue that improving African health care is in the self-interest of the entire world. When the Ebola virus was ravaging West…