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Understandably, perhaps, progressive researchers often prefer to try to understand the lives, challenges and struggles of the poor. Who wants to spend their time talking to sleazy…
The United States vs China: The Quest for Global Economic Leadership by C. Fred Bergsten. Cambridge: Polity 2022. 384 pp., £25 hardcover 9781509547357
Although Fred Bergsten’s…
Hans Gutbrod argues that all interpretations of Russia's invasion of Ukraine point to a radical change of paradigm for international relations.
Public and international…
Global Inequality 101: Global inequality is the distribution of income across all people on the planet from the poorest to the richest. It can be measured with the ‘Gini’…
Western governments have united to bring in a number of serious economic sanctions against Russia in retaliation for its violence in Ukraine, including the latest announcement…
The time limit to reach the goals of the 2030 Agenda is now just eight years away. It is vital to pursue a new model of partnerships, based on coordinated responses, if we are to…
Ramesh Thakur argues that we're experiencing an international order in transition, with terrible consequences for Ukraine, few options for NATO and big wins for…
Guest post from Anna Landre, one of our (Tom from GP and Duncan from F2P2) amazing students, who has bunked off class (with permission) to do some amazing work on Ukraine. And she…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has met with fierce resistance from the Ukrainian military and from ordinary citizens. Drawing on survey evidence, Pippa Norris and …
By empowering women, we make communities more resilient to the direct impacts of climate change. Women disproportionately bear the brunt of climate change. However, they are also…