Tom Kirk

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

Post Archive

11 March 2025
Gregory T. Chin explores why Bhutan is uniquely qualified to lead the G-ZERO. There is a new G-ZERO on the global stage.  In a world struggling with the harsh effects of climate…
11 March 2025
Nicholas Ross Smith and Tracey Fallon argue that Donald Trump and JD Vance represent American wolf warriors and, like in China where the wolf warrior diplomacy phenomenon…
06 March 2025
Jakob Vestergaard and Robert H. Wade argue that dealmaker-in-chief may derive considerable satisfaction in breaking deadlocks that have prevailed in the Bank for decades. Just…
06 March 2025
Frederik Stender and Tim Vogel argue that its time to turn “open strategic autonomy” into more than just a hollow slogan. Donald Trump is back on the global stage, and with…
05 March 2025
Aditi Mukund and Joel Sandhu argue that delays in deepening cooperation between India and Germany will weaken long-term economic and security prospects, and miss…
04 March 2025
Daniel Clausen worries that a reliance on historical analogies for contemporary policy discourse invites shallow and uncritical commentary. Our discourse…
03 March 2025
Erased:  A History of International Thought Without Men, by Patricia Owens. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. 432 pp., £30 hardcover 9780691266442, e-book 9780691266824…
27 February 2025
This is the last post in a three-part series on the future of the IMF (read the first here and the second here). The final part of this three-part series outlines…
26 February 2025
The bibliometric infrastructure of citations has become an inescapable organising feature of academic life. Drawing on a range of evidence of the use and misuse of citations data…
14 February 2025
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera provides policy recommendations to address the (im)migration crisis in the United States and proposes a long-term comprehensive solution. Immigration is…
13 February 2025
This is the second of a three-part series on the future of the IMF (read the first here).  The second part starts with a short section to illustrate how the western bloc uses…
13 February 2025
AI may be a game-changer for climate action, but it also comes with hidden environmental and social costs. To harness its potential without deepening inequalities, we need…