Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

07 October 2020
Sumithra Prasanna explores how COVID-19 has brought long-standing tensions between individual freedoms, safety, democracy and the common good to the fore. “When is coercion…
06 October 2020
Muddassar Ahmed calls for more open communication between governments and international organizations to regain travellers’ trust in tourism hindered by COVID-19. Sunday 27th of…
05 October 2020
Martha Molfetas draws parallels between the deadly effects of popular responses to COVID-19 and climate change.  Scientists have been ringing the alarm bell on our climate…
05 October 2020
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik and Katja Lindskov Jacobsen explore how a tech-reliant humanitarian sector increasingly finds itself implicated in a global War on Data. In 1971, the…
02 October 2020
A new GP / EGG Essay from Carlos Fortín, Jorge Heine and Carlos Ominami asks what will the impact of a Second Cold War be on Latin America? The COVID-19 pandemic has brought…
01 October 2020
BRI and International Cooperation in Industrial Capacity: Industrial Layout Study edited by Xu Shaoshi. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. 590 pp., 67 b/w Illust, £120…
30 September 2020
Echoing a potential global trend, Dharish David and Simran Walia explore Japan's moves away from operating in China. The desire for Japanese and Western business to wean their…
29 September 2020
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 10 years…
28 September 2020
A flawed understanding of the concept of “public good” hampers the fight for equitable access to the upcoming COVID-19 vaccine. The term “global public good” has been used in very…
25 September 2020
Alexander Butler takes an historical approach to the growing Cold War between the United States and China to argue that the West must do better to uphold its own traditions of…