Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

17 August 2022
Hassan Ahmed Abdein argues that the West should engage international faith based organisations to build a bridge between the Taliban and US policymakers that will aid to flow. #…
16 August 2022
Dan Steinbock argues that relying on think-tanks and corporate proxies, particularly those of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, US Big Defense seems to be driving the White House…
12 August 2022
People in many global regions can make complex trade-offs between the risk of contracting disease and the need to support their livelihoods, particularly in situations of poverty…
11 August 2022
Dharish David and Louis Martin-Vezian explore the possible ramifications of Biden’s Summit for Democracy. While the economic damage from the pandemic has been extensively covered…
09 August 2022
Sarath Ganji corrects the record on “sportswashing” by detailing the ways that regimes—including Qatar, host of this November’s World Cup—use sports as a tool of information…
05 August 2022
Magda Osman explores a recent review of a review that challenges nudge dogma. At the end of last year (2021), there was lots of excitement about the first comprehensive…
03 August 2022
Alex Evans summarizes a new report with five questions for change-makers. How big is our idea of ‘us’? Are our family and friends part of ‘us’? Of course. Our…
01 August 2022
Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights by Nina Reiners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022. 216 pp., £85 hardcover 978-1-108-84554-0 Who makes human rights…
29 July 2022
Freeze! The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War by Henry Richard Maar III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 300 pp., $51.95 hardcover…
28 July 2022
As all sports, women’s football is in its essence and backgrounds political. The Women’s European Football Championships in England 2022 are no exception. They clearly manifest…