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“There’s no glory in prevention”, one often hears in the debate on dealing with the corona pandemic: You don’t win elections with disasters that do not take place. This is not the…
Johan Eldebo and Anne-Marie Connor outline World Vision's listening-led approach to beating pandemics in the DRC and elsewhere.
Amidst the COVID-19 headlines that surround us…
Nafeez Ahmed lays out incoming President Biden's increasingly urgent options to tackle interacting global crises.
Unless Biden moves toward an economic paradigm…
On December 20, 2020, the United States Space Force will celebrate its first birthday. As an early birthday gift, the first chief of space operations (CSO) General John “Jay”…
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…
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…
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…
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…