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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…
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 keep up…
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. B. Du Bois…
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 paperback 978-0-7456-6002-…
In this Global Policy Response Mario Telo dissects the Hertie School of Governance’s Governance Report 2015, with particular attention to its focus on the link between governance…
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…
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…
Madeleine K. Albright and Ibrahim A. Gambari, Co-Chairs, Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance, introduce the idea of 'just security' to forge a mutually…
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.” So goes…
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 and…
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 textbook on…
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,…