Tom Kirk

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

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The alternative is to recover the constitutive elements of the politics of accommodation, the core ideas of democratic public life mediated by the rule of law and accountable to…
World leaders gather in New York on 19 September 2016 for a summit on large movements of refugees and migrants. Through this blog series the United Nations University Migration…
After the recent statement by the German Minister of the Interior about the need to resume the transfer of asylum seekers to Greece under the Dublin Regulation, Solon Ardittis…
Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration by David Miller. Harvard University Press. 2016. 0674088905 In Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of…
Washington's move to limit proliferation of armed drones is part of its search for a sharper military-technological edge. The United States sent a senior official to the Arms…
Surveillance is woven into our everyday lives. While this in itself is not new, what we experience today differs in scale from, say, covert surveillance photos of suffragettes,…
Dani Rodrik argues that the goal of global governance embodies a yearning for technocratic solutions that override and undercut public deliberation. Global governance is the…
Climate and environmental impacts are ravaging our planet, and women and marginalized groups are among those most affected.   “We must resist in the different ways that we…
Thomas Carothers of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace introduces his newly released report, Navigating International Aid in Transitions:  A Guide for Recipients…
Simeon Djankov argues that the access that London has to European money is based on proximity and historic relationships, not on being part of the EU. Following the Brexit vote,…
International Media Centre – G20 Hangzhou Summit. Earlier this year Britain held a referendum on its EU membership, and voted to leave the European Union, though the decision was…
Lant Pritchett comments on the ongoing process to choose the Bank’s next president. Last week the World Bank announced the process for choosing the next president of the…
International Media Centre – G20 Hangzhou Summit. When something becomes a usual feature we tend to refer to it as a ‘staple.’ In common language we speak about dietary staples,…