Tom Kirk

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

Post Archive

08 October 2020
“The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, are calling for the immediate disembarkation of more than 400 rescued migrants and refugees…
07 October 2020
Sumithra Prasanna explores how COVID-19 has brought long-standing tensions between individual freedoms, safety, democracy and the common good to the fore. “When is coercion…
05 October 2020
Martha Molfetas draws parallels between the deadly effects of popular responses to COVID-19 and climate change.  Scientists have been ringing the alarm bell on our climate…
05 October 2020
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik and Katja Lindskov Jacobsen explore how a tech-reliant humanitarian sector increasingly finds itself implicated in a global War on Data. In 1971, the…
30 September 2020
Echoing a potential global trend, Dharish David and Simran Walia explore Japan's moves away from operating in China. The desire for Japanese and Western business to wean their…
28 September 2020
A flawed understanding of the concept of “public good” hampers the fight for equitable access to the upcoming COVID-19 vaccine. The term “global public good” has been used in very…
25 September 2020
Alexander Butler takes an historical approach to the growing Cold War between the United States and China to argue that the West must do better to uphold its own traditions of…
24 September 2020
Patrick Kabanda argues that the Covid-19 pandemic provides a rare opportunity to rethink how tourism could contribute to cultural dignity and planetary well-being. The 27th…
21 September 2020
Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat on China's Potential in the Middle-East. China’s growing soft-power endeavours in the Middle East have been reported by many analysts. Indeed, it cannot…
17 September 2020
This post is based on a new paper published in the forthcoming special issue of Global Policy, edited by C2G. To access an early view of the full article, click here. Although…