Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

03 December 2014
Karl Muth suggests a way out of the polarised gridlock that has come to define Occidental liberal democracy. When I was a teenager – during the Blair government and the Clinton…
01 December 2014
The Post-2015 Consensus' seventh set of papers unpick the argument that promoting free trade as a target for the post-2015 development agenda could make everyone in the world…
28 November 2014
Is minting a currency truly an early symptom of statehood or state-building? To ISIS, state-building means something different from its use in development circles. It means the…
24 November 2014
Karl Muth argues that the analysis of policy alignment – intranationally and internationally – can be examined using quantitative tools. The historical approach to…
14 November 2014
Karl Muth discusses the reputational, political and gender-related connotations of the use of ‘they’. The singular plural as “they” has always bothered me, sounding to me like…
13 November 2014
Cornelius Adebahr argues that countries in and outside of the EU should consider reforms as continuing regardless of any official ascension date. After the experience of (…
13 November 2014
The Post-2015 Consensus' sixth set of papers is focuses on whether energy should be included in the post-2015 development agenda and, if so, how? Nutritious food, clean…
06 November 2014
Karl Muth argues supporting the minimum wage was an easy - but wrong - decision in the US's mid-term elections. During the midterm American election on Tuesday, five out of…
04 November 2014
Karl Muth reports on the positive signals for policy surrounding electric cars. Much ink (tangible and digital) has been spilled on the issue of Hong Kong’s democracy.…
04 November 2014
Are we willing to pay $254 billion or almost two years of the next fifteen years of development aid, to get better data? The Post-2015 Consensus' fifth set of papers is…