Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

13 September 2021
Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison by Ahmet T. Kuru. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019. 316 pp., £74.99 hardcover 978-1-…
10 September 2021
Thomas Hale responds to a report from the new UN Special Envoy for Future Generations aimed at putting temporal problems on the agenda. Can we govern the future? The United…
09 September 2021
Joerg Mayer argues that data governance that harnesses the increasing dependence of manufacturing on data, and innovation policies that give greater importance to indigenous…
08 September 2021
  Vicky Karyoti explores popular misconceptions regarding the age of drone warfare. In October 2001, nearly one month after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center…
07 September 2021
Eighteen months after COVID reached Europe, we can begin to reflect on the ethical dimensions of the pandemic. Aveek Bhattacharya (Social Market Foundation) and Fay Niker (…
02 September 2021
Judith Nshobol unpicks the nuts and bolts of the power differentials within the development sector's global research ‘supply chains’. This is part of the Bukavu series…
01 September 2021
Immigration and Freedom by Chandran Kukathas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. 364pp. $35 hardcover 9780691189680, $19.25 e-book 9780691215389 In this informed and…
26 August 2021
Saqib Qureshi argues that profit may have been the real motive of America's long and ultimately unsuccessful involvement in Afghanistan.   Right now, you’d be hard…
25 August 2021
The ICC has come under sustained attacks for a disproportionate focus on crimes in Africa, discrediting the Court’s mandate amid accusations of bias. By looking inwardly and by…
19 August 2021
Duncan Green (and friends) with a timely listicle on Afghanistan. On Monday, exasperated by the nature of the coverage of the fall of Kabul, I tweeted a request for links: ‘What…