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Robert H. Wade takes on the challenging task of sketching the contours of a diplomatic solution to conflict in the Ukraine.
I was among the large majority confident that…
What do we mean when we talk about “realism”? Do we mean the Realism of IR, the realism of mature adults, or realism as many scientists understand the term?
In 2007, Ken Booth…
Jonas Ecke reflects on the life and work of Paul Farmer.
Paul Farmer, a medical anthropologist and physician who served some of the world’s most vulnerable populations…
In the upcoming Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI), authoritarian states are in the majority for the first time ever. But there are also signs of hope.
"Democracy in crisis?"…
Mosoka Fallah, Jonas Ecke and Sharon Abramowitz argue that improving African health care is in the self-interest of the entire world.
When the Ebola virus was ravaging West…
Climate change has prompted interest in ‘degrowth’ strategies, through which countries would prioritise protecting the environment instead of economic growth. Luca Cigna…
Nicholas Ross Smith, from the University of Canterbury’s National Centre for Research on Europe, argues that out of all the Western leaders involved in the worsening situation in…
Powerful arguments for why concerted action from governments and donor organisations to support locally-based researchers is essential.
The international community has long…
Festina lente—“make haste slowly”—expresses the idea that doing something right the first time saves time. A favorite motto of Roman emperor Augustus Caesar, this…
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War by Samuel Moyn. London: Verso 2022. 416 pp., £20 paperback 9781839766190, £20 e-book 9781839766213
Working to…
In October 2021, Rwanda announced that it will house a vaccine manufacturing plant using the mRNA technology of the German start-up BioNTech, which co-developed the Pfizer COVID-…
For the past few months, I’ve been toiling away with a great team of thinkers/practitioners at LSE and beyond, developing a new training course on influencing (as close followers…
Seemingly sensible proposals to Kyiv to partially satisfy Moscow’s demands in Eastern Ukraine are counterproductive. They ignore the record of compromising with Russian revanchism…
This is the fourth of a four-part Global Policy blog series that seeks to spark new ways of thinking about digitally-mediated activism. It engages Timms and Heimans’ New/Old…
How can we teach the next generation to read the news well? For educators, this simple question can be deceptively difficult. Do we want our students to be skeptical of everything…