Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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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,…
Oxfam’s private sector adviser Erinch Sahan thinks the times are ripe for a paradigm shift
In a former life (i.e. six years ago), I worked as a development…
What role should social scientists play in society? Louisa Hotson explores the evolution of the social sciences through four periods in the history of political science…
In a new periodic feature, Global Policy’s Board Members recommend books that have caught their attention.
China’s Future? by David Shambaugh, Cambridge: Polity, 2016…
GP’s General Editor Dani Rodrik argues that the left helped construct the conditions for the right's current global resurgence. This post first appeared on Project…
When Elon Musk talks about governance on Mars, what’s really scary are the implications for democracy on Earth.
Elon Musk made headlines recently at ReCode’s 2016 Code…
The Global Transformation: History, Modernity, and the Making of International Relations by Barry Buzan and George Lawson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 426 pp,…
James Der Derian is Michael Hintze Chair of International Security and Director of the Centre of International Security Studies at the University of Sydney. He writes books and…
Digital Dilemmas: Power, Resistance and the Internet by M. I. Franklin. Oxford University Press. 2013. 0199982708.
How are digital landscapes being incorporated into public space…
Duncan Green explores Unilever’s approach to working with governments and civil society for developmental outcomes in the regions it operates.
Oxfam works with lots of big…
The human rights movement can be seen as the ongoing but failing struggle to close the gap between the abstract man of the Declarations and the empirical human being. Has it…
In the second of this three-part series Mubashar Hasan explains how Islamists manipulate a religious concept to justify transnational terrorism, and to mount challenges to Western…