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Mark Kersten explores what kind of criminal warrants the attention of the ICC.
The trial of Ahmad al Faqi al Mahdi has exposed tensions over the kinds of perpetrators that the…
Human rights scholarship and advocacy claim to be grounded in universality, yet both are anything but in their privileging the Western role in building an international human…
How can we foster inter-disciplinary understandings of complex global issues?
To foster a more comprehensive and holistic understanding of complex issues interdisciplinary…
Peter Vanham explores what we, as individuals, may have to do to live in an aging world.
Here’s a shocking insight: we’ll all live 100 years, and we’re not at…
Global Democratic Theory: A Critical Introduction by Daniel Bray and Steven Slaughter. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015. 272 pp, £55 hardcover 978-0-7456-8087-3, £16.99…
In this interview, Bue Rübner Hansen and Cameron Thibos explore how cities and activists across Europe are fighting their national governments to better welcome refugees.
Cameron…
For decades, the US has used sanctions against countries and regimes where they seek to encourage change. But what determines whether or not the US imposes sanctions in the first…
Nadia Daar argues that Jim Kim’s upcoming interview for the position of World Bank President should be an opportunity rather than just a formality.
Preparing for an…
Veronica Barassi explores digital parenthood and the everyday construction of children’s digital profiles. She argues that children’s data flows are not only…
Tine De Moor is an historian whose research focuses on the commons and what she calls ‘Institutions for Collective Action’. Her work emphasises long-term and…
Simon John James argues that the political Wells still might have something to teach us.
No writer is more renowned for his ability to foresee the future than HG Wells. His…
Drawing on growing evidence of our cooperative natures, Hakan Altinay argues that the Plato-to-NATO meta-narrative common to Western social science is too narrow to capture what…
Facebook has created an echo chamber by only showing its users what they want to see, which means political polarisation, hyper-partisanship and culture wars. Facebook needs to…
Indy Johar explores how international development is or at least should be changing.
Having worked with various UNDP offices and other development agencies around world over the…
How serious of an issue is climate change? Does global warming really threaten human civilization? Can it be reversed, or is it already late?
In this exclusive interview for…