Tom Kirk

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

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International Media Centre — G20 Hangzhou Summit. In the run-up to the G20 Leaders Summit, China has upped its game to present itself as ready and willing to show leadership. In…
International Media Centre – G20 Hangzhou Summit. This year’s G20 summit pays special attention to sustainable development, bringing into question how ‘development’ is defined,…
International Media Centre — G20 Hangzhou Summit. Unusually clear skies cover the city of Hangzhou, where China will host the G20 Leaders Summit from 4 to 5 September. The streets…
How to Host a Summit – or NotInternational Media Centre — G20 Hangzhou Summit. Hosting an international summit on the scale of the G20 is no easy task. First and foremost, the…
Social scientists and policy-makes have long built their models around a theory of 'rational action' which bears little relation to how people respond to the complexities of the…
The Politics of Inclusive Development: Policy, State Capacity, and Coalition Building. Teichman. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016. The Politics of Inclusive…
Has humanity reached an irreversible stage with regard to climate change? If not, can we halt the phenomenon of global warming from fulfilling a catastrophic scenario which will…
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…
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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 only media-driven…
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 negotiating its…
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…
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 developments over…