Tom Kirk

Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

Post Archive

28 September 2021
What are the most prevalent unintended effects of international cooperation? Dirk Jan Koch, together with the Center for Global Challenges of Utrecht University,…
23 September 2021
Chee Leong LEE on why ASEAN must play a vital role in the region’s responses to the virus. While the UK, France and Germany are relaxing most of their COVID-19 restrictions at…
21 September 2021
The “Third” United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think by Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021. 200 pp., £65 hardcover…
21 September 2021
Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Lukas Linsi and Yesaya Christianto explore why “crypto-fever” has taken a strong hold of football clubs and what should be done about it.…
16 September 2021
The collapse of the Afghan military and seizure of its  weapons by the Taliban indicate that governments should be more careful when making decisions concerning arms…
15 September 2021
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Ingunn Bjørkhaug, Adele Garnier and Astrid Espegren examine the focus on evacuating educated and professional Afghan women after the Taliban-takeover,…
14 September 2021
Emrys Schoemaker argues that the Taliban has once again reminded us that digital identity systems are like all technologies — they are neither good nor bad, but never neutral…
13 September 2021
With the Taliban having taken control over Afghanistan, millions of Afghans may soon experience limited internet access, online censorship, and related digital, administrative or…
13 September 2021
Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison by Ahmet T. Kuru. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019. 316 pp., £74.99 hardcover 978-1-…
10 September 2021
Thomas Hale responds to a report from the new UN Special Envoy for Future Generations aimed at putting temporal problems on the agenda. Can we govern the future? The United…
08 September 2021
  Vicky Karyoti explores popular misconceptions regarding the age of drone warfare. In October 2001, nearly one month after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center…
07 September 2021
Eighteen months after COVID reached Europe, we can begin to reflect on the ethical dimensions of the pandemic. Aveek Bhattacharya (Social Market Foundation) and Fay Niker (…