Tom Kirk

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

Post Archive

07 October 2021
There is growing disillusionment about the possibilities of state reform in post-war countries due to the mixed record of post-war liberal statebuilding. Ntagahoraho Z. Burihabwa…
05 October 2021
Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence. Adelman. Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, Editors. University of Minnesota Press, 2020. This was reviewed for Global Policy Next…
05 October 2021
Tom Johansmeyer explores the critical role for diplomacy in supporting a robust and reliable global cyber insurance market. Businesses and municipalities have been brutalized by…
01 October 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to several European governments implementing measures to protect their domestic industries. But are these actions pragmatic responses to the crisis…
29 September 2021
Global food prices shot up nearly 33% in September 2021 compared with the same period the year before. That’s according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)‘s monthly…
28 September 2021
What are the most prevalent unintended effects of international cooperation? Dirk Jan Koch, together with the Center for Global Challenges of Utrecht University,…
23 September 2021
Chee Leong LEE on why ASEAN must play a vital role in the region’s responses to the virus. While the UK, France and Germany are relaxing most of their COVID-19 restrictions at…
21 September 2021
The “Third” United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think by Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021. 200 pp., £65 hardcover…
21 September 2021
Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Lukas Linsi and Yesaya Christianto explore why “crypto-fever” has taken a strong hold of football clubs and what should be done about it.…
16 September 2021
The collapse of the Afghan military and seizure of its  weapons by the Taliban indicate that governments should be more careful when making decisions concerning arms…
15 September 2021
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Ingunn Bjørkhaug, Adele Garnier and Astrid Espegren examine the focus on evacuating educated and professional Afghan women after the Taliban-takeover,…
14 September 2021
Emrys Schoemaker argues that the Taliban has once again reminded us that digital identity systems are like all technologies — they are neither good nor bad, but never neutral…