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Outrage is rife in Israel following the new ultra-right government’s planned judicial reforms that would shrink Supreme Court’s ability to revoke laws passed in parliament. But…
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller. New York: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2022. 464 pp., $30.00 hardcover 9781982172008…
Humans are naturally afraid of the dark. We sometimes imagine monsters under the bed and walk faster down unlit streets at night. To conquer our fears, we may leave a night light…
Europe has been shifting towards renewable energy sources for electricity generation over the past decade.
Wind and solar energy have been the main drivers of the shift…
Stuart Reynolds argues that the decline of insects is far from the good news those with a fear of creepy crawlies may think.
Over the past 20 years a steady trickle of…
The Systems Work of Social Change: How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change by Cynthia Rayner and Francois Bonnic. 2022. Oxford…
The growing threat of violent extremist groups and how these groups operate across borders has stimulated the emergence of a new type of security arrangement in Africa. These Ad-…
New research tracks the rise of E over S in sustainable finance.
Despite widespread interest in the topic, there is a lack of consensus about what sustainable finance is, and…
Political Settlements and Development: Theory, Evidence, Implications by Tim Kelsall, Nicolai Schulz, William D. Ferguson, Matthias vom Hau, Sam Hickey, and Brian Levy. Oxford…
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) schemes have the ability to help smallholder farmers change their production and managerial practices through trainings, capacity…
The People’s Republic of China has fully financed the construction of at least 15 new African parliamentary buildings and refurbished and furnished several others on the …
On 8 November 2022, the Research Workshop on China and the Global South was held online, jointly organised by the LSE International Development, the Institute for Global Public…
Financing the Future: Multilateral Development Banks in the Changing World Order of the 21st Century by Chris Humphrey. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2022. 240 pp., £70…
The war in Ukraine is a turning point in the international relations of the Twenty-first century. As the bloodiest confrontation in Europe since World War II and with no end in…
Zhanna L. Malekos Smith argues that implanted microchips offer alluring benefits of convenience and mobility, but they carry potential cybersecurity, privacy and health risks.
The…