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ENSURED has an exciting 30 months ahead. As we get started, we want to reflect on the questions that set the project in motion and what is coming down the pipeline.
To tackle…
Liana Ghukasyan argues that a leadership fit for contemporary challenges must be visionary and inclusive, whilst willing to collaborate and distribute decision-making…
Global Policy's Tom Kirk introduces his new chapter for the How Change Happens’ 2nd Edition, published last week.
When I was invited to contribute a chapter on…
Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change by Christopher Shaw. Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2024. 148 pp., £135 hardcover 9781138615045, £36.99 paperback 9781138615069, £…
Anticipating a second term for Trump, Karl T. Muth argues that some immigration is in the national interest and strategically vital.
I make here the controversial…
The Concertation Impulse in World Politics: Contestation over Fundamental Institutions and the Constrictions of Institutionalist International Relations by Andrew F Cooper. Oxford…
In an area dominated by discussions about devastating wars and humanitarian principles of neutrality and impartiality on social media, Liana Ghukasyan makes the case that it is…
Over thirteen years, Bashar al-Assad's regime has committed numerous crimes against humanity in Syria, including the killing of civilians, and the displacement of inhabitants.…
Brian Stoddart unpicks why international education finds itself under attack and argues for a new approach.
Global affairs have likely reached yet another major inflection…
Duncan Green overviews a radical proposal for the UK in a changing world.
Just been reading The World in 2040: Renewing the UK’s Approach to International Affairs. In…
The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance: Perceptions, Actors, Innovations edited by Lena Partzsch. Bristol: Bristol University Press 2024. 372 pp., £26.99 paperback…
An introduction to four recent E-Books from Global Policy's partnership with the Observer Research Foundation. Each is free to download from the links below.
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Manuel Francisco Sambo argues that the SADC’s counterterrorism mission pulled out of Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province despite violence still raging due to deficiencies in global…
Duncan Green on lessons hard won.
The photo I dug up for Tuesday’s post of me wandering about in rainswept paddyfields in Vietnam got me thinking about a recurrent theme…
Robert Wade explores how Brazil is playing up G20 hosting role as a symbol of its deserved high status in the hierarchy of nations, and as a way to gain legitimacy for…