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Tom Kirk
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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…
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…
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…
Jennifer Bagelman examines how the language landscape shapes migration debates.“Swarms of people.” This is how Prime Minister David Cameron describes children, women,…
Strategic Resource Partnerships (SRP’s) based on Strategic Resource Modeling (SRM) are becoming increasingly important issues for the theory and practice of International…
Climate Change and Human Rights: An International and Comparative Law Perspective, edited by Ottavio Quirico and Mouloud Boumghar. Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2016. 410 pp,…
Strategic Resource Partnerships (SRP’s) based on Strategic Resource Modeling (SRM) are becoming increasingly important issues for the theory and practice of International…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Global Energy Justice: Problems, Principles, and Practices by Benjamin K. Sovacool and Michael H Dworkin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014. 414 pp, £24.99…
A liberal Actor in a Realist World: The European Union Regulatory State and the Global Political Economy of Energy by Andreas Goldthau and Nick Sitter. Oxford: Oxford University…
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…