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International Media Centre, G7 Schloß Elmau Summit
On paper, the prospect of a trip to a Group of 7 (G7) summit must appear as light relief from the daily grind of domestic…
International Media Centre, G7 Schloß Elmau Summit
The forty-eighth summit of the Group of 7 (G7) is taking place in the Alpine retreat of Schloß Elmau in Bavaria, Germany. This…
On 11 February 1965, Malcolm X gave a speech to LSE only 10 days before his assassination. Linking the experiences of Black people in the United States fighting for civil rights…
Elisabeth Winter recommends a values-based foreign policy approach for the G7 to restore its legitimacy through inclusivity.
Only a few days until this year’s G7 summit will take…
Duncan Green explores a recent paper challenging the championing of nudge theory.
There’s been an upsurge in recent decades in tackling problems by trying to change the…
Zhanna L. Malekos Smith explores what new security warnings may mean for the potential of advances in quantum computing.
Ceding the initiative to an adversary is a…
Democratizing Finance: The Radical Promise of Fintech by Marion Labouré and Nicolas Deffrennes. Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press 2022. 288 pp., £28.95 hardcover…
Why not all leaders get a popularity boost in threatening times - and certainly not Joe Biden.
It has been more than hundred days since Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the…
Macho, tough-talking, strongmen have shaped the 21st century’s politics. In fact, the century began with the archetype of contemporary strongman politics, Putin, being elected on…
This is part of in a new collection of commentaries from the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project on the New Development Bank's evolution. Browse…