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The world’s growing refugee crisis is not only about numbers. It is also about time.There are 17.2 million refugees under UNHCR’s mandate, and half of them are under the age of 18…
No sooner had Hurricane Harvey’s record rains receded from Houston and neighboring cities than the residents of Florida began bracing for a wallop from an even more…
A review of Channel 4's "The State", a show that takes ISIS as its subject and Syria as its backdrop. But does it deliver on its promises?
"The State" is a four-part television…
The science of predicting hurricanes is crucial for disaster management and insurance, but also raises difficult methodological and philosophical questions. In this post, Joe…
Patricia J. Sohn offers an alternative perspective on Trump's international engagements.
I grew up decidedly on the Left. I have been so disgusted by local and national…
Gary Fooks and Tom Mills explore on of the main justifications given for Brexit.
Government estimates suggest that around half of all UK legislation with an impact on business,…
This is the introduction to ‘The Mediterranean Reset: Geopolitics in a New Age’, a new GP E-Book out later this week. Please see here for more about the volume.
The Mediterranean…
This is the last of a four-part series of posts on Poland’s, Hungary’s and the Czech Republic’s perilous play with the EU’s refugee relocation agreement.
On July 26, 2017, a…
Young people feel that they’re not being listened to by global decision makers. But with over half of the world’s population under the age of 30, it won’t be long before they will…
The Law of Deliberative Democracy by Ron Levy and Graeme Orr. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016. 239 pp, £110 hardcover 9780415705004, £39.99 e-book 9781315890159With this book –…
Mark Lorch explores why conspiracy theories spring up with such regularity.
I’m sitting on a train when a group of football fans streams on. Fresh from the game – their team has…