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We need to face uncomfortable realities about the unequal power dynamics in development and humanitarian spaces. This needs a complete paradigm shift towards our understanding of…
As much of the world shut down early in the COVID pandemic, Sweden remained open. The country’s approach was controversial, with some calling it “the Swedish experiment”. But…
Hassan Ahmed Abdein argues that the West should engage international faith based organisations to build a bridge between the Taliban and US policymakers that will aid to flow.
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Dan Steinbock argues that relying on think-tanks and corporate proxies, particularly those of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, US Big Defense seems to be driving the White House…
People in many global regions can make complex trade-offs between the risk of contracting disease and the need to support their livelihoods, particularly in situations of poverty…
Dharish David and Louis Martin-Vezian explore the possible ramifications of Biden’s Summit for Democracy.
While the economic damage from the pandemic has been extensively covered…
Sarath Ganji corrects the record on “sportswashing” by detailing the ways that regimes—including Qatar, host of this November’s World Cup—use sports as a tool of information…
Magda Osman explores a recent review of a review that challenges nudge dogma.
At the end of last year (2021), there was lots of excitement about the first comprehensive…
Alex Evans summarizes a new report with five questions for change-makers.
How big is our idea of ‘us’? Are our family and friends part of ‘us’? Of course. Our…
Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights by Nina Reiners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022. 216 pp., £85 hardcover 978-1-108-84554-0
Who makes human rights…
Freeze! The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War by Henry Richard Maar III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 300 pp., $51.95 hardcover…
As all sports, women’s football is in its essence and backgrounds political. The Women’s European Football Championships in England 2022 are no exception. They clearly manifest…
Sam Pryke reviews the literature on the supposed demise of globalisation to argue that it was and should be viewed as a process, rather than an endpoint we have been heading…
Michael Bröning argues that it is increasingly unclear how the United Nation's global governance ambitions can be squared with the fragmenting political reality.
Figuratively…
The culminating piece in the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project's commentary series provides an overview of the New Development Bank's role in the…