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Emrys Schoemaker argues that we must recognize that DPI is as much about governing for outcomes as it is about technology per se.
There is a striking addition to the newly…
Steve Biko was undoubtedly the most influential South African liberation struggle theorist and activist of the 1970s. Rick Turner was arguably among the most effectual white anti-…
In this podcast - the first in a new series for Global Policy - Tom Kirk hosts Jutta Bakonyi and Peter Chonka, authors of Precarious Urbanism: Displacement, belonging and the…
Alan Alexandroff talks to the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) project's Gregory T Chin about the BRICS+.
It is with pleasure that I was able to invite my colleague Gregory T Chin…
The AI Military Race: Common Good Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Denise Garcia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2023. 320 pp., £30 hardcover 9780192864604…
Glauco Ortolano argues that Freedom of Expression is still the X of a rather complex democratic equation.
George Orwell’s classic literary piece, 1984, seems to have found yet a…
How India can respond to the global health challenges of climate change.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought global health security issues back to mainstream geopolitical engagement,…
Stefan Wolff argues that Europe's problems are deeper than who wins or loses in Ukraine.
As Russia keeps pounding Ukrainian cities with airstrikes and advances along the frontline…
Nicholas Ross Smith, from the University of Canterbury, argues that the temptation to essentialize China as simply being a Xi-led CCP monolith that will stop at nothing to re-…
Emrys Schoemaker lays out the necessary steps for the humanitarian sector to embrace a “digital public infrastructure” approach.
The humanitarian system is in crisis, yet…
The President’s Kill List: Assassination and US Foreign Policy since 1945 by Luca Trenta. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 400 pp., £95 hardcover 9781399519496, £25 e-…
Colleen Murrell warns of a quickening cycle of arresting journalists as pawns in geopolitical games.
Reporters Without Borders has welcomed the release of hostages by Russia…
Tom Kirk and Rose Pinnington argue that notions of how legitimacy is created must make room for the role of social norms and networks to better understand the wider implications …
Marnie Lloydd argues that it is in the gravest situations, when politics and other laws have failed, that rules are most needed.
Today marks 75 years since the adoption of…
Always wanted to write that book about progressive change but don’t know where to start? Oxfam’s Irene Guijt shares seven tips from an expert…
Imagine a conversation…