Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Fear may never disappear, but we can make it ineffective as a means of power and control.
“Fear is the deadliest assassin; it does not kill but it keeps you from living.…
Morten Koch Andersen examines the relationship between corruption and torture and how the global reform movement needs to rethink policy and intervention, moving from…
In the wake of the mounting migration crisis in Europe, Global Policy’s General Editor David Held unpacks the reasons behind the upsurge in people crossing the Mediterranean…
The Politics of Nuclear Weapons by Andrew Futter. London and New Delhi: Sage, 2015. 280 pp, £75 hardcover 978-1-4462-9430-7, £26.99 paperback 978-1-4462-9431-4
A good…
Without Shepherds, directed by Cary McClelland and Imran Babur. Pakistan, 2013. Produced by Cary McClelland, Billy Smith, Robert Profusek, and Ryan Silbert. 89 minutes,…
Covering Bin Laden: Global Media and the World’s Most Wanted Man edited by Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 259 pp, $95…
The way financial growth is framed determines everything from how we address poverty and inequality to how we deal with climate change.
Growth is good. We need growth for wealth,…
Political Order and Inequality: Their Foundations and their Consequences for Human Welfare by Carles Boix (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). 334 pp. ISBN:…
Does Facebook liberate or further segregate women? Emrys Schoemaker explores how and why women in Pakistan prefer to use WhatsApp rather than Facebook to avoid young men seeing…
To prepare it to address pressing global challenges, Susanne Salz suggests the United Nations should be turned into the ‘United Actors’, which would include certain…
Nayef Al-Rodhan explores how the study of strategic culture remains important for understanding and addressing conflicts in an interdependent world.
The debate on Strategic…
Challenges for Europe in the World, 2030 edited by John Eatwell, Terry McKinley and Pascal Petit. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 408 pp, £25 paperback 9781472419262, £72…
This interview was conducted by Mirko Hohmann and Joel Sandhu for the 'Global Governance Futures 2025' program, which brings together young professionals to look ahead and…
Duncan Green comments on Dani Rodrik’s (one of Global Policy's General Editors) recent gloomy presentation on the causes and consequences of premature…
Seth Oppenheim explores the application of the law of war to cyber conflicts and why efforts should be made to shape its future now.
The summer blockbuster season presents the…