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18 August 2016
Pledging a new commitment to climate action, the liberal government of Justin Trudeau will have to reconcile these initiatives with the economic boom generated by oil extraction.…
17 August 2016
The aid community often ignores the wishes of the very people it’s supposed to be helping. The world needs a more bottom-up approach to development. A contribution to…
17 August 2016
Six of the twelve candidates for the job of UN Secretary-General are women, but in the first informal vote at the Security Council only one woman made it to the top five. Why?…
17 August 2016
David Bollier reports on a meeting of a diverse group of twenty commons-oriented activists, academics, policy experts and project leaders for three days in Lehnin, Germany,…
16 August 2016
Oxfam’s private sector adviser Erinch Sahan thinks the times are ripe for a paradigm shift  In a former life (i.e. six years ago), I worked as a development…
16 August 2016
What role should social scientists play in society? Louisa Hotson explores the evolution of the social sciences through four periods in the history of political science…
15 August 2016
GP’s General Editor Dani Rodrik argues that the left helped construct the conditions for the right's current global resurgence. This post first appeared on Project…
15 August 2016
In a new periodic feature, Global Policy’s Board Members recommend books that have caught their attention. China’s Future? by David Shambaugh, Cambridge: Polity, 2016…
12 August 2016
When Elon Musk talks about governance on Mars, what’s really scary are the implications for democracy on Earth. Elon Musk made headlines recently at ReCode’s 2016 Code…
12 August 2016
The Global Transformation: History, Modernity, and the Making of International Relations by Barry Buzan and George Lawson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 426 pp,…