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The new trilateral agreement spells the end of the “Nagorno-Karabakh” region as we know it. There is no empirical “Nagorno-Karabakh” anymore to match its oft-used geographic-…
Tristan Kenderdine argues that during a period of global change, institutional theory can help make sense of the chaos. How institutions persist, change and ultimately…
Sam Nadel, Oxfam’s Head of Policy and Advocacy, reflects on a bad week for the UK.
Cast your mind back to December 2016. Boris Johnson, then UK Foreign Secretary, is speaking…
Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov and Min Zhu introduce a recent IMF paper that argues mass testing infrastructure offers a viable way out of COVID-19 and protection against future…
Thomas Moynihan explores extreme solutions to humanities' tendency to threaten others.
At a time when humans are threatening the extinction of so many other species, it…
While a degree of calm has returned to the Nagorno-Karabakh region, the prospect for a comprehensive peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains slim. Therefore, the…
Nathanial Matthews, Karen Sack and Chip Cunliffe call for multilateral collaboration and innovation to save ocean ecosystems.
Ocean-derived risks are multiplying. Investing in…
The Northern Irish politician John Hume, who was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998, died in August this year. Giada Lagana explains how Hume used the…
Several states have declared that the Arctic is their shared responsibility at a time when global warming changes the Arctic landscape and attracts the interests of states and…
Duncan summarises the findings of new research into developing countries that have managed to reduce income inequality.
The wheels of academia grind slowly, but eventually grind…
Aid and Technical Cooperation as a Foreign Policy Tool for Emerging Donors: The Case of Brazil, by Déborah Barros Leal Farias. Abingdon: Routledge 2018. 200 pp., £96 hardcover…
Amjed Rasheed and Juline Beaujouan analyse the recent attacks in Europe in the light of a three-year-research on region–state–religion triangle in MENA.
Europe is reeling from the…
The immense plight of Azerbaijan’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) must be recognized and tackled for long-term peace.
Following OSCE-mediated talks between foreign ministers…
Shreya Bhattacharya explores the enduring challenges to charter cities projects.
In 2009, Nobel Prize laureate and former Chief Economist of the World Bank Paul Romer …
This Q&A is an edited version of an interview with Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, which took place ahead of…