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Instead of fighting a destructive economic system, international conservation NGOs are bonding with its brutality.
Conservationists like me want a world where wildlife has space,…
Could the current modalities of humanitarian aid to refugees be improved? Dr. Stephanie Levy argues for more creative aid agreements to form the backbone of the global…
Dani Rodrik on the checks and balances that will likely temper increasing anger with globalisation.
Perhaps the only surprising thing about the populist backlash that…
Carmen Leong explores how social media’s ‘weak ties’ can grow and sustain a movement for democratic reforms.
The Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street are not the…
Josephine Liebl, Oxfam’s global policy lead on displacement, looks ahead to the UN Summit in New York in September – and looks back on a heady few weeks…
Piers Robinson outlines a post Chilcot Report research agenda.
The Chilcot Report has delivered severe criticisms of the way in which the British government took Britain to war…
Michael Todd listened to a recent lecture by Gary King on the big data revolution in the social sciences. Professor King insists data is easy to come by and is in…
Johann Hari and Benjamin Ramm in conversation for OpenDemocracy's series on 'The Human Cost of Global Drug Policy'.
Benjamin Ramm: One of the most interesting…
In light of the Olympics, Brian Stoddart explores the arguments for state funding of athletes.
As International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach makes his inevitable but…
This is an excerpt from Time, Temporality and Global Politics – an E-IR Edited Collection. Available now on Amazon (UK, USA, Ca, Ger, Fra), in all good book stores, and via…
The Closing of the Net by Monica Horten. Polity Press. 2016. 1509506896
In The Closing of the Net, Monica Horten confronts the issue of how corporate structural power has…
Pledging a new commitment to climate action, the liberal government of Justin Trudeau will have to reconcile these initiatives with the economic boom generated by oil extraction.…
The aid community often ignores the wishes of the very people it’s supposed to be helping. The world needs a more bottom-up approach to development. A contribution to…
Six of the twelve candidates for the job of UN Secretary-General are women, but in the first informal vote at the Security Council only one woman made it to the top five. Why?…
David Bollier reports on a meeting of a diverse group of twenty commons-oriented activists, academics, policy experts and project leaders for three days in Lehnin, Germany,…