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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,…
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…
Lars Engberg-Pedersen and Adam Fejerskov explore the nature and necessity of confronting inequality through global development efforts.
Inequality tears societies apart. It…
Unexpected research findings have the potential to build a reputation rapidly, and the research paper itself is not always the endgame. Professor Duncan Green talks to researcher…
Delivering medical care remotely has been a survival mechanism during the pandemic. But it has benefits that should be held on to, as Bangladesh’s experience shows.
One of the…
Bens Ramalingam and Kumpf have a thought-provoking new paper out on Covid-linked innovation in poor countries, and the lessons for aid donors. Here…
Public health leaders who contained the Ebola epidemic make the case for COVID-19 vaccine technology transfer, open access vaccines for poor countries, and donation of funds…
Vahagn Avedian explores the significance of Biden's recent use of the 'G' word.
Does it really matter to recognize a century old “historical” event such as the Armenian Genocide…
Nicola P. Contessi weighs in on the implications of the Suez Canal logjam.
To everyone’s relief, the Suez blockage found a swift solution after only seven days. The entire backlog…
Cryptocurrencies are slowly changing the world. That could be particularly true for the world's charity and NGO sector.
Cryptocurrencies have rocketed into the mainstream. Bitcoin…
Sebastian Buckup explores what it really takes to 'build back better' after COVID-19.
“Never let a good crisis go to waste,” goes a common policy maxim. It is the rallying cry of…
Compromised accounts, device confiscation, censorship, surveillance, excessive monitoring – these are some of the threats in cyberspace with the potential to violate human rights…
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 15 years…
The Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics edited by Alpaslan Ozerdem and Matthew Whiting. Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2019. 528 pp., £152 hardcover 9781138500556, £31.99…
Lalit Chennamaneni examines the decline of Indian democracy and the Global North’s contention with it. A comment on Amrita Narlikar’s ‘Why should Germany work more with India?’.…