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Citizens’ Wealth: Why (and How) Sovereign Funds Should be Managed by the People for the People by Angela Cummine. New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2016. 296 pp, £20…
Global Policy's General Editor Dani Rodrik discusses options for the future of Europe.
This month the European Union will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding treaty,…
The UNDP's Administrator Helen Clark talks to Masood Ahmed the president of the Center for Global Development on the day the Trump Administration proposed considerable cuts to the…
Aengus Collins explores the potential consequences of our technological revolution.
Any change can be unsettling, but changes as profound as those being unleashed by the current…
Quotas aren't anathema to meritocracy: they increase competence levels by displacing mediocre men, write Tim Besley, Olle Folke, Torsten Persson and Johanna Rickne.
A common…
Writing for The Conversation, Joseph Aldy explores the future of climate change measurements under Trump.
President Trump is expected to issue an executive order soon to reverse…
One of the most panoramic, as well as readable analyses of our time’s conundrums can be found in David Held’s Global Politics After 9/11: Failed Wars, Political Fragmentation and…
This interview was conducted by Joel Sandhu for the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look…
Human rights regimes such as the European Convention on Human Rights are unlikely to shield citizens against the wave of authoritarianism threatening liberal democracies.
Shortly…
Steve Baines explores the possibility that all good things really can go together.
These are definitely not the research findings I expected to be presenting. The data in front of…
The 12th March was the world wide web’s 28th birthday. Here’s a message from its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on how the web has evolved, and what we must do to ensure it fulfils…
Democracy is in decline.
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) latest Democracy Index 2016 shows 72 countries experienced a decline in democratic values last year. Countries…
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds. Lisa Messeri. Duke University Press. 2016.
In Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds, Lisa…
Charles Kenny explores the potential of a possible US International Organizations review.
There’s increasing appetite in the US to follow the UK model and launch a review of US…
Dr Nicola Rollock, lead author of the award-winning book The Colour of Class: the educational strategies of the Black middle classes, discusses race, equality and education…