Tom Kirk

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

Post Archive

30 November 2015
Theories of International Relations: Contending Approaches to World Politics by Stephanie Lawson. Cambridge: Polity, 2015. 288 pp., £55.00 / €68.80 hardcover 978-0-7456…
27 November 2015
The Indian Government should step back from its move to ban commercial surrogacy for foreigners. The policy further restricts the choices of those in poverty and will have a…
25 November 2015
ISIS fighters must be held to account as criminals, not conventional military adversaries, for their violent crimes. Snared by geopolitical interests, post-9/11 interventions have…
24 November 2015
Andrea Koch, Alex McBratney and Budiman Minasny investigate the viability of a call by the French Government in the lead up to COP21 to increase carbon in the global soil stock by…
16 November 2015
This post is part of a series from the ongoing G20 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to keep up to date…
16 November 2015
This post is part of a series from the ongoing G20 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to keep up to date…
15 November 2015
This post represents the third in a series from the ongoing G20 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to…
15 November 2015
This post represents the second in a series from the ongoing G20 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to keep…
15 November 2015
This post represents the first in a series from the ongoing G20 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to…
13 November 2015
Global Energy Dilemmas by Michael Bradshaw. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014. 240 pp, $26.95 / £16.99 paperback 978-0-7456-5065-4, £55 hardcover 978-0-7456-5064-7 As W. E…
29 October 2015
Gender, War, and Conflict by Laura Sjoberg. Cambridge / Malden MA: Polity Press, 2014. 202 pp, £50 / €62.50 hardcover 978-0-7456-6001-1, £14.99 / €18.80…
15 October 2015
When States lack social legitimacy, a lack of trust in politicians or political parties is merely a symptom of this. Who then do we turn to? On Saturday, Oct 10, over one hundred…
09 October 2015
Where does India stand on current developments in internet governance? Rohan Wadhwa argues that the country needs to take the lead in shaping the debate in order to fulfill its…