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Three G20 initiatives to put climate change front and center in the world’s economic architecture.
On April 22, the world’s attention will turn to President Biden’s…
GP's Online Editor, Tom Kirk, on the landscape for aid and and development grads.
For the last few years, I’ve co-delivered an MA module on influencing, activism and…
Sydney Kamen calls on Biden to challenge vaccine nationalism and reposition the USA as a leading humanitarian nation.
With a single bold move – donating tens of millions of…
Against the trend of vaccine nationalism, India is emerging as one of the major global suppliers of COVID-19 vaccines, writes Dr Biswajit Dhar, professor at the Centre for…
Temelso G. Getahun argues that torture constitutes a denial of human dignity.
“We will uphold the rights of those who we bring to justice. And we will close the detention facility…
Duncan Green reviews a recent essay on how to use power analyses to understand and drive activism.
John Gaventa has been thinking, writing and theorising about power for at least…
Teferi Mergo argues that faced with limited options the international community must support a political settlement between Ethiopia’s warring federalist and the unitary camps.…
Fabio Petito argues that the UK is failing to realise the importance of regional blocks and has few realistic responses to the current crisis of the liberal international order.…
Orders of Exclusion: Great Powers and the Strategic Sources of Foundational Rules in International Relations by Kyle M. Lascurettes. New York: Oxford University Press 2020. 336 pp…
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 15 years…
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik considers the EU's plans for a ‘digital green certificate’ from social justice perspective and argues we must continue to pay careful attention to…
Amidst a global pandemic, students at the London School of Economics have organized the world’s largest public-facing online summit on the existential risks that face humanity.…
Ilan Manor explores Russia's digital vaccine diplomacy efforts.
Now is the age of nostalgia. Throughout the world we are witnessing a yearning desire to return to the world…
The efficacy of governance varies across West Africa, as does the region’s record in tackling the spread of the coronavirus. There are clear signs that good governance can boost a…
Nouh El Harmouzi and Tom G. Palmer argue that now is the time Arabs to finally enjoy the ‘bourgeois deal’.
In 2011 the two of us were in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where Nouh…