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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…
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…
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…
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…
This interview was conducted by Joel Sandhu for the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to…
Human rights regimes such as the European Convention on Human Rights are unlikely to shield citizens against the wave of authoritarianism threatening liberal democracies.
Shortly…
Steve Baines explores the possibility that all good things really can go together.
These are definitely not the research findings I expected to be presenting. The data in front of…
The 12th March was the world wide web’s 28th birthday. Here’s a message from its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on how the web has evolved, and what we must do to…