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The ever-deepening relationship between China and Russia has played a significant role in the current crisis in Ukraine.
Many in the West see a connection between Russian…
This is the third of a four-part Global Policy blog series that seeks to spark new ways of thinking about digitally-mediated activism. It engages Timms and Heimans’ New/Old…
Researchers in the global North often make assumptions about the motivations and abilities of local research collaborators in the global South. Not only are these assumptions…
It’s a common argument among climate deniers: scientific models cannot predict the future, so why should we trust them to tell us how the climate will change?
This trope recently…
Duncan Green explores Oxfam's annual Davos report: The Inequality Virus.
I know this is the week of Blue Monday, when we are all supposed to feel at our most miserable, but I’m…
This is the second of a four-part Global Policy blog series that seeks to spark new ways of thinking about digitally-mediated activism. It engages Timms and Heimans’ New/Old Power…
Talks between Russia and the west have failed. Moscow has described the situation in Ukraine as “intolerable” and “a matter of life or death”. The US president, Joe Biden, has…
I sat down recently with Ayesha Khan, who works with the Collective for Social Science Research in Karachi, Pakistan. She is author of The Women’s Movement in Pakistan:…
This is the first of a four-part Global Policy blog series that seeks to spark new ways of thinking about digitally-mediated activism. It engages Timms and Heimans’ New/Old Power…
Abdur Rehman Cheema argues that sufficient gender disaggregated data is available in Pakistan, the challenge remains how to use this data to improve gender equality.
Sustainable…