Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

06 September 2024
How India can respond to the global health challenges of climate change. The COVID-19 pandemic brought global health security issues back to mainstream geopolitical engagement,…
05 September 2024
Stefan Wolff argues that Europe's problems are deeper than who wins or loses in Ukraine. As Russia keeps pounding Ukrainian cities with airstrikes and advances along the frontline…
02 September 2024
Nicholas Ross Smith, from the University of Canterbury, argues that the temptation to essentialize China as simply being a Xi-led CCP monolith that will stop at nothing to re-…
22 August 2024
Emrys Schoemaker lays out the necessary steps for the humanitarian sector to embrace a “digital public infrastructure” approach. The humanitarian system is in crisis, yet…
21 August 2024
The President’s Kill List: Assassination and US Foreign Policy since 1945 by Luca Trenta. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 400 pp., £95 hardcover 9781399519496, £25 e-…
20 August 2024
Colleen Murrell warns of a quickening cycle of arresting journalists as pawns in geopolitical games. Reporters Without Borders has welcomed the release of hostages by Russia…
15 August 2024
Tom Kirk and Rose Pinnington argue that notions of how legitimacy is created must make room for the role of social norms and networks to better understand the wider implications …
13 August 2024
Marnie Lloydd argues that it is in the gravest situations, when politics and other laws have failed, that rules are most needed. Today marks 75 years since the adoption of…
12 August 2024
Always wanted to write that book about progressive change but don’t know where to start? Oxfam’s Irene Guijt shares seven tips from an expert… Imagine a conversation…
06 August 2024
Glauco Ortolano explores the soft power myths being generated during the Olympics. Acclaimed 20th Century Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa, Fernando Pessoa - Wikipedia opens…