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Should we be blamed for the negative consequences of otherwise wholly good acts? Tom Rowe considers the moral risks faced by aid givers.
Sometimes, in order to aid individuals,…
State Capitalism: How the Return of Statism is Transforming the World by Joshua Kurlantzick. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 287pp, £19.99 hardcover 9780199385706…
Despite the worries, Kathryn Hochstetler finds room for transformative climate change action under newly elected President Trump.
On his first day in office, US President Donald…
The Ways of the World. David Harvey. Profile Books. 2016.
The Ways of the World offers an intellectual journey through the work of David Harvey over the past five decades,…
For recipients aid has been a very mixed blessing, but for donors it’s been a bonanza.
It’s astonishing when you think about it. Why should an old and poorly-…
Zachary Haver analyzes the European Union’s fundamentally imbalanced relationship with China and argues how an EU-China Free Trade Agreement could resolve this issue.
The EU…
C. J. Polychroniou interviews world-renowned Cambridge University Professor of Economics Ha-Joon Chang.
For the past 40 years or so, neoliberalism has reigned supreme over much of…
Jason Miklian explains what the election of Donald Trump means for the future of peacebuilding as the world takes an illiberal turn, and how businesses can carve new roles at the…
Moonhawk Kim explores the breakdown of America's post-war domestic-international bargain.
Ruggie’s (1982) “embedded liberalism” provided the framework for…
Kevin P. Gallagher's commentary for the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) series explores China's growing passion for green finance, south-south development cooperation,…
How should universities respond to the global rise in populism?
“We are going to survive this phase, because basic education and research – which is based on facts…
Stefan Kossoff (DFID’s governance czar) reviews the new WDR, published this week.
For those of us working on governance this week’s publication of the 2017 World…
Unless life is uncomfortable, there’s no room for transformation.
Does it matter that Micah Johnson was killed by a robot, albeit one controlled by human hands? Johnson shot…
The years since 9/11 have cast a dark shadow over global politics in many respects. But we have the option of recalling where the pursuit of authoritarianism leads.
The…
A powerful new report finally kills off any remaining intellectual veil for a broken economics that is breaking society.
Sometimes an ideology is so brilliantly propagated that…