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Thomas Hale responds to a report from the new UN Special Envoy for Future Generations aimed at putting temporal problems on the agenda.
Can we govern the future? The United…
Joerg Mayer argues that data governance that harnesses the increasing dependence of manufacturing on data, and innovation policies that give greater importance to indigenous…
Vicky Karyoti explores popular misconceptions regarding the age of drone warfare.
In October 2001, nearly one month after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center…
Eighteen months after COVID reached Europe, we can begin to reflect on the ethical dimensions of the pandemic. Aveek Bhattacharya (Social Market Foundation) and…
Judith Nshobol unpicks the nuts and bolts of the power differentials within the development sector's global research ‘supply chains’. This is part of the Bukavu series…
Immigration and Freedom by Chandran Kukathas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. 364pp. $35 hardcover 9780691189680, $19.25 e-book 9780691215389
In this informed and…
Saqib Qureshi argues that profit may have been the real motive of America's long and ultimately unsuccessful involvement in Afghanistan.
Right now, you’d be hard…
The ICC has come under sustained attacks for a disproportionate focus on crimes in Africa, discrediting the Court’s mandate amid accusations of bias. By looking inwardly and by…
Duncan Green (and friends) with a timely listicle on Afghanistan.
On Monday, exasperated by the nature of the coverage of the fall of Kabul, I tweeted a request for links: ‘What…
On World Humanitarian Day, Sydney Kamen, Isabel Kleitsch, Matthew O’Bryan and Blaise Robert issue an important call to support the vital work of humanitarian negotiators…
Scott L. Montgomery explores why billionaires seem to have an obsession with space travel.
Not long ago, a trip into space required years of physical and mental…
Jose Maria Valenzuela responds to Isabelle Goetz and Greer Gosnell recent article on lessons from Mexico’s gas import capacity expansion strategy to inform India’s natural gas…
Joshua B. Horton argues that developing countries have the most to gain and to lose from resolving the impasse stalling global governance for geoengineering.
Solar geoengineering…
Germany and the EU should stick to their guns and avoid armed conflict at all cost.
On 29 June 2021, a press release announcing that the last German soldiers were leaving…
Tad Daley urges President Biden to support a proposal to expand the democratic character of the United Nations.
In his foreign policy pronouncements since Inauguration…