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Justice in Conflict: The Effects of the International Criminal Court’s Interventions on Ending Wars and Building Peace, by Mark Kersten. Oxford: Oxford University Press,…
Duncan Green reports from a conference exploring how we should react to disruptive tech.
It’s often a good sign when you rock up at a conference and hardly know anyone…
Asheesh Advani and Leonardo Martellotto explore the latest silver bullet for tackling poverty.
Before Cindy started her company, Chocolovers, through the JA (Junior Achievement)…
If Europe has a culture, is there such a thing as a European nation, asks Benjamin G Marti? In a piece originally published at Aeon, he cautions against…
It is now possible that new governments in France and Germany will respond to civil society pressure and do what is needed to change the EU, without being blocked by Britain.
This…
The first 100 days are considered to be a benchmark for presidential performance. This is part of the legacy of FDR, who managed to reshape the US government's role in the…
Dave Anderson explores what we mean when we talk of 'leveraging'.
Leveraging has emerged as the dominant method individuals, organizations and countries use to get things…
Ducan Green shares some thoughts on recent discussions over how the aid sector should repond to the rising tide of nationalism, populism, and attacks on aid.
A couple of Oxfamers…
Citizens’ Wealth: Why (and How) Sovereign Funds Should be Managed by the People for the People by Angela Cummine. New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2016. 296 pp,…
Global Policy's General Editor Dani Rodrik discusses options for the future of Europe.
This month the European Union will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding treaty…
The UNDP's Administrator Helen Clark talks to Masood Ahmed the president of the Center for Global Development on the day the Trump Administration proposed considerable cuts to…
Aengus Collins explores the potential consequences of our technological revolution.
Any change can be unsettling, but changes as profound as those being unleashed by the current…
Quotas aren't anathema to meritocracy: they increase competence levels by displacing mediocre men, write Tim Besley, Olle Folke, Torsten Persson and Johanna Rickne.
A common…
Writing for The Conversation, Joseph Aldy explores the future of climate change measurements under Trump.
President Trump is expected to issue an executive order soon to reverse…
One of the most panoramic, as well as readable analyses of our time’s conundrums can be found in David Held’s Global Politics After 9/11: Failed Wars, Political…