Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

06 March 2018
Global Cities and Global Order by Simon Curtis. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016. 240 pp, £55 hardcover 9780198744016 During the last decade, there has been an extraordinary…
28 February 2018
Joel Sandhu introduces the Global Governance Futures 2030 – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues and outlines its approach.  Thanks to rapid advances in technology…
28 February 2018
“The urge to censor is greatest where debate is most disquieting and orthodoxy most entrenched…” –Chief Judge Alex Kozinski In September of last year, conservative speaker, Ben…
27 February 2018
James Parisot and Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. introduce their book exploring America’s responses to its loss of hegemony. The world appears to be shifting into an era of…
27 February 2018
Militarised Responses to Transnational Organised Crime: The War on Crime. Tuesday Reitano, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo and Sasha Jesperson (eds). Palgrave Macmillan. 2018. In…
26 February 2018
Corporations and governments around the world increasingly stand accused of causing or failing to prevent the damaging effects of climate change. Test cases are being…
26 February 2018
Is Greece on the road to economic recovery? In this interview, Lapavitsas suggests it is simply ludicrous on the part of a former left party to speak of a neoliberal success story…
22 February 2018
The challenges that Europe faces both from within and from outside require immediate, concerted counter-efforts. While efforts to advance the European economic architecture are…
22 February 2018
The end game is clear: Assad, Russia and Iran will emerge victorious. The conflict in Syria has been the most vicious in contemporary history, creating a geo-political hall of…
21 February 2018
Andrew Fanning finds that no country currently meets the basic needs of its citizens at a globally sustainable level. Here he reflects on a further insight from that research…