Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

02 August 2016
Too small to influence economics, too bureaucratic to be social movements, banned from politics and removed from the societies they’re trying to change, where do NGOs go…
01 August 2016
Power Shift: On the New Global Order by Richard Falk. London: Zed Books. 1783607939. In Power Shift: On the New Global Order, Richard Falk examines the challenges and changes to…
01 August 2016
In the first of a three-part series, Mubashar Hasan explains how Islamists manipulate a religious concept to justify transnational terrorism, and to mount challenges to Western…
29 July 2016
Carlo Carraro explores current and potential future efforts to measure and evaluate progress towards the SDGs. In September 2015, the UN Assembly unanimously approved its new…
29 July 2016
Natasha Agarwal and Zheng Wang investigate the impact of US EXIM Bank on US exports. With heightening debate around the functions and lending activities/practices of national…
28 July 2016
Harvey M. Sapolsky argues that, despite their knowledge of foreign policy, America's next Commander in Chief may not be that different from the last. The American electorate…
28 July 2016
GP’s General Editor Dani Rodrik explores ongoing debates over technological innovation, and its consequences for productivity, employment, and equity. This post first…
27 July 2016
Social Media for Academics by Mark Carrigan. London, UK, SAGE Publishing, 2016. 208pp. 144629868X. While social media is an increasingly important part of academic life that can…
27 July 2016
Norm Change in International Relations: Linked Ecologies in UN Peacekeeping Operations by John Karlsrud. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016. 172 pp., £90 hardcover 978-1-1389-…
26 July 2016
Duncan Green explores how systems thinking means activists should be rethinking their roles and applying them to the way NGOs (and others) do research. If you stick around in your…