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The culminating piece in the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project's commentary series provides an overview of the New Development Bank's role in the…
Almost all qualitative and quantitative research into human society involves the participation of other humans. However, they are frequently rendered passively in research outputs…
Sharanya Sekaram on the fear activists feel due to recent developments in the USA and the hope they must take from elsewhere.
I recall watching the passage of the 2018 Irish…
Through the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become clear that an effective response to an emergency of this nature goes beyond the health system. While strengthening health…
Oxfam’s Amy Croome explores a tricky issue for aid organizations like Oxfam.
At the Grand Bargain Meeting this week, signatories will reflect on the role of…
Roland Benedikter argues that UNESCO's Futures Literacy approach is key to ensuring global policies are appropriate for and taken up by local communities.
UNESCO is the…
The global minimum corporate tax, coming into place in 2023, is a first step toward a global system of taxation, but it will benefit almost exclusively rich countries. I recommend…
International Media Centre, G7 Schloß Elmau Summit
So, another summit has concluded with the release of the G7 Leaders’ Communiqué and the resultant flurry of activity in the…
International Media Centre, G7 Schloß Elmau Summit
On paper, the prospect of a trip to a Group of 7 (G7) summit must appear as light relief from the daily grind of domestic…
International Media Centre, G7 Schloß Elmau Summit
The forty-eighth summit of the Group of 7 (G7) is taking place in the Alpine retreat of Schloß Elmau in Bavaria, Germany. This…
On 11 February 1965, Malcolm X gave a speech to LSE only 10 days before his assassination. Linking the experiences of Black people in the United States fighting for civil rights…
Elisabeth Winter recommends a values-based foreign policy approach for the G7 to restore its legitimacy through inclusivity.
Only a few days until this year’s G7 summit will take…
Duncan Green explores a recent paper challenging the championing of nudge theory.
There’s been an upsurge in recent decades in tackling problems by trying to change the…
Zhanna L. Malekos Smith explores what new security warnings may mean for the potential of advances in quantum computing.
Ceding the initiative to an adversary is a…
Democratizing Finance: The Radical Promise of Fintech by Marion Labouré and Nicolas Deffrennes. Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press 2022. 288 pp., £28.95 hardcover…