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Branko Milanovic explores the link between mass wars and inequality.
It has become somewhat of a truism to hold that big mass mobilization cause income inequality to…
Avril Keating explores research on what young Britons really think about Brexit.
In the immediate aftermath of the EU referendum, much was made of how devastated young people were…
Humans will work increasingly closely with machines, and we need to prepare people for that, write Terence Tse, Mark Esposito and Danny Goh.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been…
For the first time, a paradise in danger will host the UN climate talks. Can Fiji’s presidency bring about the desperately needed global partnerships for island nations?
The…
Nations Torn Asunder: The Challenge of Civil War by Bill Kissane. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 285 pp., £18.99 hardcover 978-0-19-960287-2
This book deals with the…
C.J. Polychroniou looks back at the October Revolution and its ramifications.
Exactly one hundred years ago today, in the evening of October 25, 1917, the Winter Palace in…
This is the second part of a wide-ranging interview with world-renowned public intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin.
C.J. Polychroniou: Noam, racism, inequality, mass…
Nina Hall asks what the New Zealand election can tell us about global political shifts?
Yesterday New Zealand’s new government was sworn into office. At its helm…
Konstantinos Efstathiou explores the prize winner's contributions.
Martin Sandbu in the FT lists some of Thaler’s seminal contributions to behavioural economics, which…
Civil society must keep the dialogue over migration open, to retain relevance and to survive.
The so-called European migration crisis and the populist political backlash that…
US President Donald Trump recently criticised the EU for being protectionist, and several political figures in the UK have suggested that Brexit will allow the country to remove…
As Xi Jinping takes up a second 5-year term, Jinghan Zeng explores his plans to make his nation great again.
In 1793, in his letter to Britain’s King George III, China…
This is the first part of a wide-ranging interview with world-renowned public intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin.
Not long after taking office, it became evident that…
Deepening interdependence, due in part to the success of the postwar order, has created structural gridlock in world politics and contributed to an anti-global backlash across the…
The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century: The Piketty Opportunity. Pat Hudson and Keith Tribe (eds). Columbia University Press. 2017.
In The Contradictions…