Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

02 July 2020
Jon Jiang argues that China's recent moves against Australia should be viewed through the frame of 'tianxia' - an ancient Chinese term for global order. The…
01 July 2020
Emilian Kavalski suggests that China’s lodestone appears to be losing its appeal in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe; thus, while a year ago many were convinced that…
30 June 2020
I recently skyped Deepak Nayyar, Professor of Economics at India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to discuss his new book, Resurgent Asia. Podcast below. You start with an…
26 June 2020
Shmona Simpson argues that to truly stand in solidarity with #BLM, the development sector must work towards its own irrelevance. After four weeks of global Black Lives Matter…
26 June 2020
Kevin P. Gallagher and Richard Kozul-Wright call on international financial institutions to adopt a series of measures to give developing countries the space to fight…
25 June 2020
Sam Pryke examines the view that the Covid19 pandemic is further weakening globalisation and finds that this is not the case.  In some respects, it is extending it.…
24 June 2020
As societies develop plans for revitalizing economies and protecting citizens from further pandemics, Wiley's Samantha Green spoke with a biologist - Marc…
24 June 2020
The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts by Harriet Allsopp and Wladimir Van Wilgenburg. London and New York: I.B. Tauris 2019. 264 pp., £75 hardcover 978-…
22 June 2020
Alex Nunn and Marc Cowling explore the effects of lockdown on Subjective Well-Being in the UK and draw policy lessons applicable to many countries. Many countries around the world…
19 June 2020
Tom Kirk – GP’s Online Editor and development researcher - shares his worries that the recent announcement to merge the UK’s foreign aid and affairs ministries will make the…