Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

14 January 2025
Nikita Chiu calls for Policy Insights for inclusion in a forthcoming Global Policy special section entitled Tracing the Future(s): Tracing our legacies to shape a more…
13 January 2025
Ahmad Khalil explores the implications of the Caesar Act's sanctions in a post-Assad Syria, highlighting the need to transition from punitive measures to policies fostering…
10 January 2025
In response to restricted funding, humanitarian actors are having to prioritise where to deploy their resources. Charlotte Brown and Costanza Torre delve into the policy. The…
09 January 2025
The world needs to stop relying on a metric that ignores two thirds of the work done by women and which promotes harmful policies, says Oxfam GB CEO Halima Begum. A new…
02 January 2025
As they struggle to overcome violence and insecurity, countries like El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala increasingly find themselves in a tense struggle between…
20 December 2024
Christiaan De Beukelaer argues that meeting the 2023 IMO Strategy in full is necessary and feasible. But it requires unequivocally ambitious measures in 2025. In July 2023,…
19 December 2024
Paasha Mahdavi and Andrew Howell explore why reducing methane emissions from oil and gas in the global south is often seen as “low hanging fruit.” At the UN’s annual climate…
19 December 2024
Glauco Ortolano argues that to “make America great again”, Trump must look beyond the USA's borders. Even before taking office, Donald Trump is flexing his “trifecta muscles…
16 December 2024
Hakan Altinay explores why generosity, goodwill and trust are vital for the functioning of any society. Significant sections of our world are built on the assumption that…
12 December 2024
Controversies over the arrest warrant for Netanyahu by the International Criminal Court force me to explain myself.           …