Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

05 August 2024
C.J. Polychroniou argues that the authoritarian, dystopian settings that the U.S. created in so many places across the world are being reconceived by ultra-conservative forces…
02 August 2024
Humanitarian funding is skewed by political bias and must recover a credible sense of neutrality to address massive humanitarian needs. To achieve this, Liana Ghukasyan calls on…
01 August 2024
Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation is one of these famous books whose ideas have been so absorbed into social sciences that the books themselves are no longer read. This would be…
30 July 2024
The Gulf Monarchies after the Arab Spring: Threats and Security by Cinzia Bianco. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. 206 pp., £85 hardcover 978-1-5261-7084-2 The Gulf…
29 July 2024
Researchers synthesize climate resilience strategies from five global case studies. From food and water security to sustainable housing, climate change disproportionately affects…
25 July 2024
Major powers are increasingly approaching global problems through a zero-sum lens. Is multilateralism on its last leg? In his inaugural lecture as Professor of International…
25 July 2024
Andy Sumner and Arief Anshory Yusuf explore what it means and how much would it cost? In a new UNU-WIDER paper, which provides background for this year’s OECD Development…
24 July 2024
Do international organisations have a PR problem? A breakdown of new research on the relationship between tangibility and the image of IOs in Western states. In your research, you…
24 July 2024
Glauco Ortolano explores an implausible proposal for how the war may end through economic rather than political means. Although I live in a country that enshrines in its…
23 July 2024
Tim Hirschel-Burns and Marina Zucker-Marques call for an expansion for the scope of the Nairobi-Washington Vision to help countries regain financial stability and…