Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

25 July 2016
In this exclusive interview for Global Policy Journal, Graciela Chichilnisky discusses the impact of climate change on the global economy and sketches out a vision of alternative…
22 July 2016
Brett Heasman reflects on the psychological impact of the EU referendum. Whether you voted to remain or leave, the EU referendum has unquestionably altered our cultural landscape…
21 July 2016
The European Union (EU) had been lurching from one crisis to the next even before a majority of British voters expressed their desire to leave it. While staying away from the…
19 July 2016
Gbenga Oduntan explores the difficulties faced by the Turkish plotters. The military coup attempted in Turkey has failed and its leaders have fled to Greece, where they are…
19 July 2016
The ILO oversees the global protection of workers’ rights. It should consider instigating and/or supporting litigation in courts to serve that purpose. A contribution to…
15 July 2016
What impact will Brexit have on the rest of the European Union in the coming years and decades? Antonio Lettieri writes that while some commentators have portrayed the result as a…
13 July 2016
Behavioural Scientists at the LSE explore what do we mean by, and what should we be measuring, when we talk about ‘happiness’. Your question sounds very pertinent,…
13 July 2016
Brexit is prompting a lot of discussion within the UK’s aid community right now. But while the focus is understandably on EC funding and exchange rates, there’s a…
12 July 2016
Mobile polling could revolutionize how civil society and human rights groups operate—if it’s done right. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on public…
08 July 2016
Kerry Brown unpicks why China may be looking at Brexit with some trepidation over its own domestic fractures. Ancient Chinese wisdom is something beloved by Chinese leaders…