Tom Kirk

Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

Post Archive

18 November 2014
Carlo Carraro argues that refroms to the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme are sending the right sort of signals for those interested in reaching emission targets. On the 23 October…
12 November 2014
Laurence and Alison Matthews argue that the way we frame global policy challenges is vitally important, and yet often overlooked. Have you heard much about International Warming…
11 November 2014
Security Sector Reform in Southeast Asia: From Policy to Practice edited by Felix Heiduk. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2014. 264 pp, £65 hardcover 9781137365484, e-book…
10 November 2014
This interview was conducted for the ‘The Global Governance Futures 2025’ programme which brings together young professionals to look ahead and recommend ways to address global…
05 November 2014
Environmental policy in the OECD largely stagnates. While financing and enforcing policies is essential, geographic and demographic factors also play a role for countries’ success…
28 October 2014
Dlawer Ala’Aldeen from the Middle East Research Institute in Erbil discusses the emerging Middle East order and the actors that must mobilise to shape it. For the first time for…
28 October 2014
Carlo Carraro, Director of the International Center for Climate Governance, unpicks the World Summit of Regions for Climate's commitment to exert bottom-up pressure on…
24 October 2014
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor, by William Easterly. New York: Basic Books 2014. 416 pp, US$29.95 hardcover ISBN 978-0-465-…
23 October 2014
Farhan Siddiqi from the Middle East Research Institute in Erbil discusses the need for regional political advances to accompany current military gains against ISIS in Iraq and…
22 October 2014
The inception of Hong Kong protests is a timely reminder of the fact that a regime that isn’t truly representative of the aspirations of its people, will always result in…
06 October 2014
In 2011, the Australian government passed the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act. The Act has been passed with the objective of addressing public health concerns arising from smoking…
02 October 2014
Civic Virtue and the Sovereignty of Evil by Derek Edyvane. New York and Abingdon: Routledge 2013. 160 pp, $140 hardback 978-0-415-89047-2, e-book 978-0-203-08572-1 Derek Edyvane…
30 September 2014
Nationalism and the Rule of Law: Lessons from the Balkans and Beyond by Iavor Rangelov. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014. 224 pp, £60 hardcover 9781107012196, $76…