Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

12 March 2018
Michael Johnson gets us up to speed on President Trump's latest policy. President Donald Trump has signed an order for special tariffs of 25% on imports into the United States of…
12 March 2018
Nayef Al-Rodhan explores the evolving space security race.                               Space…
09 March 2018
Some of the most widely cited predictions of the economic effects of Brexit rely on flawed analysis, particularly of the performance of the UK after it joined the EEC, and on the…
08 March 2018
This guest post on the 'From Poverty to Power' blog by Nikki van der Gaag, Oxfam’s Director of Gender Justice and Women’s Rights. This International Women’s Day feels different to…
08 March 2018
Following the #MeToo revelations, journalist and creative writer Sian Norris let her imagination run wild to envision a global feminist revolution. This is her dispatch from a…
07 March 2018
Tracy Bhamra explores the impact of the late Trevor Baylis. Trevor Baylis, who has died aged 80, left his school in London at 15 without any qualifications. But he went on to…
07 March 2018
Mihai Chihaia analyses Russia’s current approach towards North Africa highlighting the main avenues of cooperation with the countries in the region. North Africa has long been an…
06 March 2018
In light of recent divestment announcements by insurers from coal, Lisa Benjamin examines emerging legal obligations for institutional investors in high-emitting industries such…
06 March 2018
Global Cities and Global Order by Simon Curtis. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016. 240 pp, £55 hardcover 9780198744016 During the last decade, there has been an extraordinary…
28 February 2018
Joel Sandhu introduces the Global Governance Futures 2030 – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues and outlines its approach.  Thanks to rapid advances in technology…