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Koldo Casla reflects on a year dominated by the pandemic and why we still can't be sure what its final outcomes may be.
In March 2020, days after the World Health Organization…
Azer Babayev explores the role the international community can play in ensuring the current fragile peace lasts.
The recent military flair up of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was…
Refusal to allow a Hungarian official to enter Ukraine stoked political tensions which were already riding high. But what are the repercussions for Ukraine’s cooperation with the…
These institutions were designed with colonial principles in mind, and they remain largely colonial in character to this day.
Most people assume that inequality between the global…
UK print media coverage of immigration is noted for its hostility and divisiveness. From the cliché that migrants heap unsustainable pressure on public services, to the depiction…
The overwhelming prioritization of vaccines takes attention and resources away from the complex political, social and infrastructural investments that underlie a resilient public…
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 15 years…
The Media Manifesto by Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman, Justin Schlosberg and Lina Dencik. Cambridge: Polity, 2020. 142 pp., £35 hardcover 9781509538058, £9.99 paperback…
This blog is based on a new free to access paper published in the forthcoming special issue of Global Policy, edited by C2G. To access the full article, click…
James D. Wolfensohn, who served as World Bank president from 1995 to 2005, died on 25th November, 2020 at 86. Born in 1933 in Sydney, Australia, Wolfensohn settled in…
Tim Davie, Director General of the BBC, and Jotse Groen, CEO of Takeaway.com, are just two stand-out speakers newly confirmed at Reuters Next, one of the biggest and most…
Harro van Asselt, Sander Chan, Idil Boran, Thomas Hale, Lukas Hermwille and Charles Roger examine opportunities to strengthen climate action by non-state and subnational…
Quagmire in Civil War by Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020. 340 pp., £74.99 hardcover 9781108486767, £24.99 paperback 9781108708265, $26 e-book…
Jessica DiCarlo and Seth Schindler examine the Act that will accelerate America's economic confrontation with China.
US-China relations began to fray in the wake of the 2008…
Eugénia C. Heldt lays out a strategy for the EU to reassert the West’s leadership of global health governance.
China is exploiting the spread of coronavirus across the globe to…