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The Indian Government should step back from its move to ban commercial surrogacy for foreigners. The policy further restricts the choices of those in poverty and will have a…
ISIS fighters must be held to account as criminals, not conventional military adversaries, for their violent crimes. Snared by geopolitical interests, post-9/11 interventions have…
Andrea Koch, Alex McBratney and Budiman Minasny investigate the viability of a call by the French Government in the lead up to COP21 to increase carbon in the global soil stock by…
This post is part of a series from the ongoing G20 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to keep up to date with…
This post is part of a series from the ongoing G20 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to keep up to date with…
This post is part of a series from the ongoing G20 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to keep up to date with…
This post represents the third in a series from the ongoing G20 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to keep up…
This post represents the second in a series from the ongoing G20 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to keep…
This post represents the first in a series from the ongoing G20 summit being covered on the ground by the Global Leadership Initiative's team. Please check in regularly to keep up…
Global Energy Dilemmas by Michael Bradshaw. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014. 240 pp, $26.95 / £16.99 paperback 978-0-7456-5065-4, £55 hardcover 978-0-7456-5064-7
As W. E. B. Du Bois…
Gender, War, and Conflict by Laura Sjoberg. Cambridge / Malden MA: Polity Press, 2014. 202 pp, £50 / €62.50 hardcover 978-0-7456-6001-1, £14.99 / €18.80 paperback 978-0-7456-6002-…
In this Global Policy Response Mario Telo dissects the Hertie School of Governance’s Governance Report 2015, with particular attention to its focus on the link between governance…
When States lack social legitimacy, a lack of trust in politicians or political parties is merely a symptom of this. Who then do we turn to?
On Saturday, Oct 10, over one hundred…
Where does India stand on current developments in internet governance? Rohan Wadhwa argues that the country needs to take the lead in shaping the debate in order to fulfill its…
Madeleine K. Albright and Ibrahim A. Gambari, Co-Chairs, Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance, introduce the idea of 'just security' to forge a mutually…