Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

29 March 2023
Pelle Axelsson asks Jan Eliasson for his reflections on a career seeking to maintain communications and prevent conflict.  Jan Eliasson was born in 1940 in…
28 March 2023
Kyle Scott argues that countries that can foster equitable rural and urban development will be best placed to tackle deglobalization. Almost at the outset of the COVID…
28 March 2023
Leesa Danzek explores social media influencers as a tool for diplomacy.  Search “#ukrainewar” on TikTok and you may find a handful of Ukrainian soldiers dancing to James…
27 March 2023
Danny Bradlow shows how it became standard practice for multilateral financing institutions like the World Bank to have an independent citizen driven accountability…
23 March 2023
Thuy Pham examines AI’s role in the classroom and outlines how this new and useful educational tool could be an asset for younger generations. Artificial intelligence was once a…
22 March 2023
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria by Daniel E Agbiboa. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2022. £75 hardcover 9780198861546    …
22 March 2023
Rajat Khosla and David McCoy argue that correcting power imbalances and ensuring accountability are at the heart of transforming the global health agenda. The last few years have…
20 March 2023
Feminist Global Health Security. Clare Wenham. Oxford University Press. 2021. In Feminist Global Health Security, Clare Wenham challenges the marginalisation of women in global…
20 March 2023
Bright Simons argues that the absorption channel for development finance, rather than fundraising, is the main bottleneck the Bank's new President must address.…
17 March 2023
Pelle Axelsson interviews the well known WMD hunter. Hans Blix was born in Uppsala in 1928. He studied law at Uppsala University and later continued his studies at Cambridge…