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In times of conflict with the US, China and Russia significantly step up ties in the defence sphere. Is a Sino-Russian alliance threatening the liberal world order?
In September,…
On average, humans slaughter over 70 billion animals for food every year. That’s 130,000 animals every minute.
This scale is only possible because we’ve transformed animal…
In its new special report on climate change and land, the IPCC calls for more effective and sustainable land management, and more sustainable food consumption. But who is the onus…
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier. 2018. Penguin. ISBN: 0062748653
This is the second part of my review of Paul Collier’s “The future of…
Journalists, politicians and regular citizens have spent much time in recent years discussing the ‘Chinese dream’. It’s our vision of China’s journey into the future.
I believe…
This blog is part of a series on FP2P exploring the lessons from a recent MA course at the LSE taugtht by Duncan Green and Global Policy's Tom Kirk.
Final instalment from my…
A new conception of privacy as an ambient, public good is necessary if we are to save our rights as individuals.
The need to regulate online privacy is a truth so universally…
Christine Corlet Walker asks if the solutions we promote to climate change are limited by what powerful organisations deem politically feasible?
You may have missed it, but a…
The Politics of Terror by Erica Chenoweth and Pauline Moore. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018. 512 pp., £47.99 paperback 978-0-19-979566-6
Under the backdrop of…
Greg Falconer, Director of Innovation Policy at Nesta, offers Britain's new Prime Minister some advice on how to keep his promises to make the country a world leader in…