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David Held and Pietro Maffettone introduce the themes in their new edited volume ‘Global Political Theory’.
It is literally impossible to shy away from global…
Neoliberalism and Terror: Critical Engagements edited by Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Christopher Baker-Beall and Lee Jarvis. London/New York: Routledge, 2016, 198 pp, £95.00…
Amartya Sen’s famous study of famines found that people died not because of a lack of food availability in a country, but because some people lacked entitlements to food.…
The alternative is to recover the constitutive elements of the politics of accommodation, the core ideas of democratic public life mediated by the rule of law and accountable to…
World leaders gather in New York on 19 September 2016 for a summit on large movements of refugees and migrants. Through this blog series the United Nations University Migration…
After the recent statement by the German Minister of the Interior about the need to resume the transfer of asylum seekers to Greece under the Dublin Regulation, Solon Ardittis…
Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration by David Miller. Harvard University Press. 2016. 0674088905
In Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of…
Sian Sullivan explores whether the conservation of natural capital equates with the conservation of nature?
The four-yearly World Conservation Congress of the International Union…
Washington's move to limit proliferation of armed drones is part of its search for a sharper military-technological edge.
The United States sent a senior official to the Arms…
Surveillance is woven into our everyday lives. While this in itself is not new, what we experience today differs in scale from, say, covert surveillance photos of suffragettes,…
Dani Rodrik argues that the goal of global governance embodies a yearning for technocratic solutions that override and undercut public deliberation.
Global governance is the…
Climate and environmental impacts are ravaging our planet, and women and marginalized groups are among those most affected.
“We must resist in the different ways that…
Thomas Carothers of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace introduces his newly released report, Navigating International Aid in Transitions: A Guide for Recipients…
Simeon Djankov argues that the access that London has to European money is based on proximity and historic relationships, not on being part of the EU.
Following the Brexit vote,…
Summarising a recent paper written with Chris Hoy, Andy Sumner explores how redistributive policies would be likely to end extreme poverty faster than growth.
Amartya Sen’s…