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Climate change has prompted interest in ‘degrowth’ strategies, through which countries would prioritise protecting the environment instead of economic growth. Luca Cigna…
Nicholas Ross Smith, from the University of Canterbury’s National Centre for Research on Europe, argues that out of all the Western leaders involved in the worsening situation in…
Powerful arguments for why concerted action from governments and donor organisations to support locally-based researchers is essential.
The international community has long…
Festina lente—“make haste slowly”—expresses the idea that doing something right the first time saves time. A favorite motto of Roman emperor Augustus Caesar, this…
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War by Samuel Moyn. London: Verso 2022. 416 pp., £20 paperback 9781839766190, £20 e-book 9781839766213
Working to…
In October 2021, Rwanda announced that it will house a vaccine manufacturing plant using the mRNA technology of the German start-up BioNTech, which co-developed the Pfizer COVID-…
For the past few months, I’ve been toiling away with a great team of thinkers/practitioners at LSE and beyond, developing a new training course on influencing (as close followers…
Seemingly sensible proposals to Kyiv to partially satisfy Moscow’s demands in Eastern Ukraine are counterproductive. They ignore the record of compromising with Russian revanchism…
This is the fourth of a four-part Global Policy blog series that seeks to spark new ways of thinking about digitally-mediated activism. It engages Timms and Heimans’ New/Old Power…
How can we teach the next generation to read the news well? For educators, this simple question can be deceptively difficult. Do we want our students to be skeptical of everything…
The ever-deepening relationship between China and Russia has played a significant role in the current crisis in Ukraine.
Many in the West see a connection between Russian…
This is the third of a four-part Global Policy blog series that seeks to spark new ways of thinking about digitally-mediated activism. It engages Timms and Heimans’ New/Old…
Researchers in the global North often make assumptions about the motivations and abilities of local research collaborators in the global South. Not only are these assumptions…
It’s a common argument among climate deniers: scientific models cannot predict the future, so why should we trust them to tell us how the climate will change?
This trope recently…
Duncan Green explores Oxfam's annual Davos report: The Inequality Virus.
I know this is the week of Blue Monday, when we are all supposed to feel at our most miserable, but I’m…