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Tristan Kenderdine calls for better tools to analyze China’s growing economic influence.  Trade agreements between nation states usually create state-to-state frameworks for…
David Held, GP’s General Editor, explores social, economic and political understandings of evolution in a lecture recently delivered at Durham University.      “……
African feminist movements are diverse. But we can, and must, learn from decades of transformational organising on the continent. As African feminists, we face multiple…
Kristian Hoelscher and Jason Miklian ask how tech can be harnessed for peace without ignoring the lessons from past conflicts and causing more harm than good.  What's the '…
The rise of populism is a challenge for open societies but an opportunity for public policy schools. Students and alumni of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin …
At the United Nations, the buzz around a “data revolution” has taken the role of numeric indicators to new heights. Once thought to be a technical issue for statisticians, data…
Ewa Atanassow asks how can we deal with the rise of the term ‘illiberal democracy’? This May 8 in Berlin - a date and place whose symbolism cannot be mistaken - the Hertie School…
‘White trash,’ ‘dumbass libtard,’ ‘right-wing fuckhead:’ have we all gone mad? Q: “Why are you such a dumbass? A: Why are morons like you allowed to breathe and steal air from…
Kishore Mahbubani explores the prospects of a joint Chinese-Indian defence of globalisation. The biggest contradiction in global governance can be described succinctly. We live in…
Ben Murray explores some of the obvious, and not-so-obvious connections between horror cinema and economics. Horror. Love it or hate it, horror has been with us for pretty much as…