Tom Kirk

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

Post Archive

17 June 2021
Amine Bennis examines the opportunity for a European response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the Middle East and North Africa. In a recent speech, US President Joe Biden…
17 June 2021
Duncan Green with a useful summary of Civivus' latest report on the state of global civil society.  Civicus publishes its annual ‘State of Civil Society Report’ today. It’s great…
11 June 2021
Despite almost 30 years of the global anti-corruption agenda, something is clearly not working. Preparing for this week’s special session of the General Assembly…
10 June 2021
When the implementation of EU policies is likely to be unpopular, do governments benefit from non-compliance? Drawing on a new study, Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, Lisa Kriegmair,…
09 June 2021
Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, argues that donors and private aid providers need a civic space defence strategy fit for purpose in the emerging post…
09 June 2021
Bennett Freeman and Louisa Greve call on Biden to demonstrate to the world that the U.S. is prepared to be a leader on human rights again. As a candidate in 2020, President…
08 June 2021
Nadia Daar provides a framework to assess and improve Special Drawing Rights reallocation schemes. In my last blog, I laid out why so many have been calling for a significant new…
07 June 2021
For Africa Day, LSE Fellow in the Department of International Development and Course Convenor for the African Development (DV418) course, Dr Eyob Balcha Gebremariam reflects…
04 June 2021
Isabelle Goetz and Greer Gosnell argue that India has an opportunity to secure reliable and affordable energy, whilst ensuring its gas usage supports national and global…
03 June 2021
Bernadette O'Hare introduces research with relevance for the upcoming G7. Tax abuse is an expensive business. According to a recent report by the Tax Justice Network,…
28 May 2021
A long read from Robert H. Wade on the manias expanding the latest economic bubble and why current models are not fit to predict when it will burst.  Jeremy Grantham,…
26 May 2021
Turkish-Saudi Relations: Cooperation and Competition in the Middle East by Sinem Cengiz. Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2020. 197 pp., £75 hardcover 9783959941341, e-book 9783959941358…
25 May 2021
Lars Engberg-Pedersen and Adam Fejerskov explore the nature and necessity of confronting inequality through global development efforts. Inequality tears societies apart. It…