Tom Kirk

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

Post Archive

11 February 2016
Zika—the new kid on the pandemic block—is emerging in the wake of Ebola, at a time when critical lessons learned from the world’s response to Ebola are still…
08 February 2016
This opinion piece is part of the “The Global Governance Futures” programme, which brings together young professionals to look ahead and recommend ways to address…
02 February 2016
Aramide Odutayo examines the strengths and limitations of the UN Women’s flagship report “Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights”. The…
02 February 2016
Jennifer Bagelman examines how the language landscape shapes migration debates.“Swarms of people.” This is how Prime Minister David Cameron describes children, women,…
29 January 2016
Strategic Resource Partnerships (SRP’s) based on Strategic Resource Modeling (SRM) are becoming increasingly important issues for the theory and practice of International…
26 January 2016
Strategic Resource Partnerships (SRP’s) based on Strategic Resource Modeling (SRM) are becoming increasingly important issues for the theory and practice of International…
25 January 2016
Foreign aid has helped Nepal make headway in the health and education sector in the past decade. But the earthquakes in April and May 2015 and the insufficent response by Nepal…
12 January 2016
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement – initiated by the US, has excluded many emerging economies of Asia-Pacific from its remit. This post highlights the potential…
11 January 2016
Digital Diplomacy: Conversations on Innovation in Foreign Policy by Andreas Sandre. Lanham / London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 332 pp, £54.95 hardcover 978-1-4422-3635…
04 January 2016
Brad L. Brasseur explores the current problems in creating good education for the poor in developing nations and looks at some of the solutions. The United Nations recently…
23 December 2015
Stephen Minas explores how the Climate Technology Centre Network represents an important form of cross border collective action to help address climate change. The intensification…
21 December 2015
Global Energy Justice: Problems, Principles, and Practices by Benjamin K. Sovacool and Michael H Dworkin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014. 414 pp, £24.99…
09 December 2015
In the first of a series of commentaries on the Justice and Security Research Programme’s emerging ideas, Tom Kirk reports on Alex de Waal’s recent book launch and…