Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

10 August 2021
Germany and the EU should stick to their guns and avoid armed conflict at all cost. On 29 June 2021, a press release announcing that the last German soldiers were leaving…
05 August 2021
Tad Daley urges President Biden to support a proposal to expand the democratic character of the United Nations. In his foreign policy pronouncements since Inauguration…
04 August 2021
The New Climate Activism: NGO Authority and Participation in Climate Change Governance by Jen Iris Allan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2020. 226 pp., $63.75 hardcover…
29 July 2021
Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India by Ravinder Kaur. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press 2020. 360 pp., $90…
28 July 2021
Duncan Green offers ideas to ensure we don't waste the transformational potential of the pandemic for aid's ongoing localisation challenge. Lots of people are hailing a surge in…
27 July 2021
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 15 years…
23 July 2021
Hizbullah Khan argues that the recent withdrawal of Us forces will not spell the end of the Afghan government as feared by many. In April 2021, President Joe Biden officially…
22 July 2021
In this long-read Robert H. Wade argues that the climate change consensus is dangerously stifling debate and analysis, and offers concrete policy recommendations to…
19 July 2021
Chiara Oldani describes the challenges of the 2021 Italian presidency of the G20 following the pandemic year. The year 2021 started under very bright auspices, especially for…
16 July 2021
As countries closed their borders and quarrelled over vaccines, some thought there was little role for international organisations. Yet, say Maria J Debre (University of…