Tom Kirk

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

Post Archive

31 March 2017
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…
30 March 2017
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…
30 March 2017
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…
28 March 2017
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…
28 March 2017
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…
24 March 2017
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…
23 March 2017
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…
23 March 2017
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…
22 March 2017
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…
22 March 2017
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…
20 March 2017
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…
20 March 2017
This interview was conducted by Joel Sandhu for the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to…
16 March 2017
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…