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Johannes Urpelainen explores opportunities for non-state actors to work with national governments to influence climate policy.
Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit…
Tom Kirk, GP’s Online Editor, provides his thoughts on the first ‘Global Policy North Conference: The Challenge of Brexit for the North’ held at the University of Leeds on 20th…
Ross Chainey picks through Li Keqiang's recent speech.
The basic principles of free trade should be maintained and unilateral trade actions will not solve any problems,…
But is this the best strategy for advancing British interests? Here is the argument based on the findings of a recent Dahrendorf Forum working paper.
All eyes in British politics…
What value do statistics really have when it comes to describing events in a country?
For most people, statistics are a means to an end, a way to validate their point of view. I’…
Those who have served the current US president are necessarily tainted by the experience. While they should not be barred from speaking at universities, they should be accorded…
While Russia's military exercises sound a western alarm, blunt reality offers better advice.
Russia’s massive Vostok-2018 military exercises from 11-17 September are receiving…
Gregory Stiles, Editor of Global Policy: Next Generation, explores the re-awakening of the bilateral-summit model in international politics.
The recent summit meeting between…
This is a guest post on Duncan Green's blog From Poverty to Power by Anna Chernova, Oxfam’s Senior Humanitarian Policy Adviser.
There was some jubilation recently in South Sudan…
Robyn Klingler-Vidra and Juergen Braunstein explore whether it is enough to throw huge sums of money into the Venture Capital industry to boost innovation and…