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Jakob Vestergaard and Robert H. Wade argue that dealmaker-in-chief may derive considerable satisfaction in breaking deadlocks that have prevailed in the Bank for decades.
Just…
Frederik Stender and Tim Vogel argue that its time to turn “open strategic autonomy” into more than just a hollow slogan.
Donald Trump is back on the global stage, and with…
Aditi Mukund and Joel Sandhu argue that delays in deepening cooperation between India and Germany will weaken long-term economic and security prospects, and miss…
Daniel Clausen worries that a reliance on historical analogies for contemporary policy discourse invites shallow and uncritical commentary.
Our discourse…
Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men, by Patricia Owens. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. 432 pp., £30 hardcover 9780691266442, e-book 9780691266824…
This is the last post in a three-part series on the future of the IMF (read the first here and the second here).
The final part of this three-part series outlines…
The bibliometric infrastructure of citations has become an inescapable organising feature of academic life. Drawing on a range of evidence of the use and misuse of citations data…
The interlocutors in this podcast hosted by Eva-Maria Nag are Dr Ferran Perez Mena, Assistant Professor in International Relations at the School of Government and International…
In this podcast, Eva-Maria Nag hosts Jess Begon, Associate Professor of Political Theory at the School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA) at Durham University, to talk…
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera provides policy recommendations to address the (im)migration crisis in the United States and proposes a long-term comprehensive solution.
Immigration is…
This is the second of a three-part series on the future of the IMF (read the first here). The second part starts with a short section to illustrate how the western bloc uses…
AI may be a game-changer for climate action, but it also comes with hidden environmental and social costs. To harness its potential without deepening inequalities, we need…
Six years ago, Sierra Leone’s President declared a national emergency over sexual violence. Today, men in the West African nation are playing their part to fight for the safety of…
The Fourth Financing for Development (FfD) Conference is a crucial platform for tackling sustainable development financing. Yet, it faces mounting challenges: shrinking public…
Daniele Carminati explores how countries are using soft power to harness dissatisfaction with the current state of global affairs and challenge the status quo.
In Nye’s…