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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…
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…
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…
The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts. Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins. Manchester University Press. 2016.
In The Econocracy: The Perils of…
Garth Le Pere explores Africa’s ongoing climb out of a peripheral global position and how the international community can work with it.
Despite the recent discourse about “Africa…
Josh Powell, Chief Strategy Officer at the Development Gateway weighs in on the Data and Development debate.
While development actors are now creating more data than ever,…
Many observers are expecting a hard Brexit to take place. But what is the most likely outcome of the upcoming Brexit negotiations and how can the UK minimise any negative economic…
In part 2, Nikolaos Karagiannis briefly presents and criticizes the Moody’s report on the downgrading of The Bahamas, and discusses aspects of a holistic development framework for…
Can we transform the renting economy of Uber and AirBnB into a genuine sharing one? Platform cooperatives must become open and commons-oriented.
“What if this is not capitalism,…
In 1984 the Mexico City Policy, or ‘global gag rule’, was enacted by the United States, restricting federal funds to international family planning institutions that provide…
The Military in Post-Revolutionary Iran: the evolution and roles of the Revolutionary Guards by Hesam Forozan. New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2016. 255 pp, £100 hardcover…
Andrew Chakhoyan asks what can the U.N. learn from the world of start-ups?
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced “Facebook's plan to bring the global community together.” A few…
In part 1, Nikolaos Karagiannis briefly presents the main features and concerns associated with financialization in the present era of neoliberal globalization.
The era of…