Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Tom Kirk
Post Archive
Political Order and Inequality: Their Foundations and their Consequences for Human Welfare by Carles Boix (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). 334 pp. ISBN:…
Does Facebook liberate or further segregate women? Emrys Schoemaker explores how and why women in Pakistan prefer to use WhatsApp rather than Facebook to avoid young men seeing…
To prepare it to address pressing global challenges, Susanne Salz suggests the United Nations should be turned into the ‘United Actors’, which would include certain…
Nayef Al-Rodhan explores how the study of strategic culture remains important for understanding and addressing conflicts in an interdependent world.
The debate on Strategic…
Challenges for Europe in the World, 2030 edited by John Eatwell, Terry McKinley and Pascal Petit. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 408 pp, £25 paperback 9781472419262, £72…
This interview was conducted by Mirko Hohmann and Joel Sandhu for the 'Global Governance Futures 2025' program, which brings together young professionals to look ahead and…
Duncan Green comments on Dani Rodrik’s (one of Global Policy's General Editors) recent gloomy presentation on the causes and consequences of premature…
Seth Oppenheim explores the application of the law of war to cyber conflicts and why efforts should be made to shape its future now.
The summer blockbuster season presents the…
Sylvia Szabo and Rituparna Hajra offer a number of policy options for supporting sustainable urban development and human well-being.
Globally around 54% of people live in urban…
Ruling Capital: Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance by Kevin P. Gallagher. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2015. 248 pp, $29.95 / £…
Transnational Climate Change Governance by Harriet Bulkeley, Liliana B. Andonova, Michele M. Betsill, Daniel Compagnon, Thomas Hale, Matthew J. Hoffmann, Peter Newell, Matthew…
Erik Solheim, Chair of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD, argues that the large influxes of Syrian refugees to countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey are…
Knowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations by Keren Yarhi-Milo. Princeton / Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014.…
This six below analyses represent the collected post-summit thoughts of the Global Leadership Initiative's team that covered the event for Global Policy.
The Global…
Just as is has done on mass immigration, the liberal-left needs to reconsider its stance on international aid. Its current position does not serve those it is supposed to…