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Expected for over a year, China’s 13th Five-year Plan on International Capacity Cooperation is not forthcoming. When finally released, it will detail China’s…
The Catalan crisis has caught Europe by surprise. Some in Madrid may also have been unprepared. Yet most Catalans – regardless of their views on independence – were…
Mark Nance argues that Europe can be an effective champion of a liberal world order, but only if it ensures that European integration yields a more social political economy…
In the wake of recent events, Nikolaos Karagiannis and C.J. Polychroniou explore what can be done to build the Caribbean’s future resilience to hurricanes.
Hurricanes…
Branko Milanovic explores the ideal of a world “without injustice of birth”.
A friend sent me this interesting but slightly odd (I have to say so at the outset)…
Martin Chungong introduces a campaign to protect democracies' institutions.
Democracy today is widely seen as under siege. We acknowledge this, but a distinction should be…
In Crisis and Sustainability: The Delusion of Free Markets, Alessandro Vercelli argues that the concepts of freedom which underpin neoliberal economics are at odds with those…
Herman T. Saltonon on the art of teaching international relations in a globalized world.
“Professor, you are biased.” This comment—made by one of my students in…
Fumiya Iida explores how close we are to the film's robotic vision.
The new Blade Runner sequel will return us to a world where sophisticated androids made with organic…
Viraj Mehta unpicks the potential of India’s ‘unique experiment in human history’.
Those of us who grew up in India in the 1980s, when only one national…
Branko Milanovic explores lessons from Fernando Pessoa's 'The anarchist banker'.
It is impossible to spend a few days in Lisbon and to be a compulsive voyeur of…
After a surprising election result, Europe is closely watching German coalition negotiations. A so-called Jamaica coalition of conservatives, liberals and greens is the most…
Morgan Bazilian, Peri-Khan Aqrawi-Whitcomb, Paasha Mahdavi, and Cyril Widdershoven examine the similaritires and differences between an independent Kurdistan and South Sudan.…
llan Manor examines digital diplomats’ ability to reach new audiences and construct competing versions of reality.
In 1987, James Der Derian conceptualized …
Under Donald Trump, US federal drug policy has undergone a fairly dramatic reversal. The Obama administration’s criticisms of the ‘war on drugs’ are gone,…