Tom Kirk

Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

Post Archive

08 June 2017
The Middle East is going through the biggest transformation since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of modern nation states by colonial powers. Some…
07 June 2017
Nayef Al-Rodhan looks towards international solutions to the problem of fake news. “Post-truth” was selected the 2016 ‘word of the year’ by the Oxford…
07 June 2017
The discussion on how to protect countries from pandemics should also include strategies aimed at curbing potential ‘pandemics of fear’. Few events cause as much…
06 June 2017
Dani Rodrik explores the calls to compensate the losers of globalisation. It appears that a new consensus has taken hold these days among the world’s business and policy…
05 June 2017
Getting more girls into school is vital, but it isn’t an answer to poverty and inequality. In recent weeks there has been uproar about President Trump’s decision to…
05 June 2017
Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Mariko J. Klasing and Petros Milionis explores the implications for economic policy of the worldwide polarisation of values. A striking development in recent…
02 June 2017
After just five months in power, the new President of the US has done it. He has ripped up the most powerful demonstration of collective and responsible global citizenship that…
01 June 2017
As the reality of the horrifying terrorist attack on Manchester sinks in, it is easy to assume that such an atrocity will make it harder for the people of the city to get on…
31 May 2017
Amitendu Palit argues that the China-led Maritime Silk Road Initiative is causing ripples among Indian policymakers. Regional connectivity and infrastructure capacities in Asia…
30 May 2017
Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East by Christopher Davidson. London: Oneworld Publications, 2016. 688 pp, £25/$30, hardcover 978-1-78607-001-2 Having…
30 May 2017
Alan Alexandroff and Arthur Stein reflect on Graham Allison’s use of the ‘Thucydides Trap’ to assess the state of US-China relations. The US-China relationship…
29 May 2017
This weekend the 43rd G7 summit takes place in Taormina, Italy. Staff and students attending the summit are working as policy analysts with Sheffield University's Global…
28 May 2017
This weekend the 43rd G7 summit takes place in Taormina, Italy. Staff and students attending the summit are working as policy analysts with Sheffield University's Global…
28 May 2017
This weekend the 43rd G7 summit takes place in Taormina, Italy. Staff and students attending the summit are working as policy analysts with Sheffield University's Global…