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Melanie Kramers offers four reasons to remain optimistic in the run up to COP26.
I don’t know about you, but my eco anxiety has been soaring to record highs with each report of…
Hannah Bloomfield strikes a note of caution about Europe's current rush to wind.
Through summer and early autumn 2021, Europe experienced a long period of dry conditions and low…
No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality by Paul Adler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 344 pp., £36 hardcover…
Ahead of COP26, Anir Chowdhury argues that others should not wait for developed nations to take historic steps to address climate change. Instead, they should turn to their…
Tom Johansmeyer reveals a new trend in non-terror political violence. What we’ve seen in Latin America’s insurance market has worldwide social and economic implications.
With very…
After 40 years of neoliberal rule, in which the state actively sought to eradicate the boundary between market, civil society and governance by making economic rationality the…
Max Lawson asks why class analysis has disappeared and argues for its much needed return.
Years ago, when I had just joined Oxfam as a young policy adviser, I wrote a policy paper…
Lina Nasr El Hag Ali argues that afrofuturism constitutes a form of creative dissent that generates new possibilities for our collective future.
Pay attention to the visions for…
Biodiversity has never been more at risk than it is today. To halt this trend, the global community urgently needs to agree on new goals. Will the 15th Biodiversity Conference…
There is growing disillusionment about the possibilities of state reform in post-war countries due to the mixed record of post-war liberal statebuilding. Ntagahoraho Z. Burihabwa…
From Anger to Action Inside the Global Movements for Social Justice, Peace, and a Sustainable Planet. by Harriet Lamb and Ben Jackson. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
I’ve…
Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence. Adelman. Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, Editors. University of Minnesota Press, 2020.
This was reviewed for Global Policy Next…
Tom Johansmeyer explores the critical role for diplomacy in supporting a robust and reliable global cyber insurance market.
Businesses and municipalities have been brutalized by…
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to several European governments implementing measures to protect their domestic industries. But are these actions pragmatic responses to the crisis…
Global food prices shot up nearly 33% in September 2021 compared with the same period the year before. That’s according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)‘s monthly…