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The UK will extract as much oil and gas from the North Sea as possible, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said last week as he announced more than 100 new drilling licenses. Only a few…
Europe is placing insurmountable barriers in front of Africans trying to get visas to visit. This policy is denying people opportunities and doing Europe more harm than good…
The ESRS has been hailed as innovative, a watershed. We study its innovativeness relative to existing corporate sustainability policies and find that its not innovative in the…
Elise Stephenson and Susan Harris Rimmer explore new research on diversity within intelligence agencies and its implications.
In recent years, many global intelligence agencies…
David J. Hunter, Kyriaki Nanou and Heather Lodge report on how trade and health policy can collaborate.
The Global Policy Institute (GPI) at Durham University hosted and…
China and Latin America: Development, Agency, and Geopolitics by Chris Alden and Alvaro Mendez. London: Bloomsbury 2023. 281 pp., £70 hardcover 9781786992536, £22.99 paperback…
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik discusses the broader implications of evolving AI for humanitarian action, aid work, and aid workers.
Generative AI: From same, same but different to…
How to Engage Policy Makers with your Research: The Art of Informing and Impacting Policy. Edited by Tim Vorley, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean, Syahirah Abdul Rahman. Edward Elgar…
On both sides of the Atlantic, political leaders are attacking the integrity of international arbitration as a mechanism for resolving disputes, especially between private parties…
Les Coleman finds the UN-led framework to tackle global warming has failed dismally, and calls for a practical, devolved approach.
The next climate change Conference will be held…
MSc International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies student, Kubilay Ogutcu interviews Dr. Kristin Surak about her upcoming book The Golden Passport: Global…
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik and Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert identify a problematic lack of engagement with AI in the humanitarian strategies of donor countries and offer a set of…
Duncan Green relays insights from a veteran humanitarian practitioner.
Just got back from Dakar, and a great few days with the latest cohort of leaders from UN, INGOs and Red…
Recent advances in international coordination of climate and trade policies conceal gridlock on an emerging and highly controversial policy option: border carbon adjustments.…
No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World by Mathias Thaler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022. 352 pp., £80 hardcover 9781316516478, £26.99 paperback…