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How India can respond to the global health challenges of climate change.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought global health security issues back to mainstream geopolitical engagement,…
Stefan Wolff argues that Europe's problems are deeper than who wins or loses in Ukraine.
As Russia keeps pounding Ukrainian cities with airstrikes and advances along the frontline…
Nicholas Ross Smith, from the University of Canterbury, argues that the temptation to essentialize China as simply being a Xi-led CCP monolith that will stop at nothing to re-…
Emrys Schoemaker lays out the necessary steps for the humanitarian sector to embrace a “digital public infrastructure” approach.
The humanitarian system is in crisis, yet…
The President’s Kill List: Assassination and US Foreign Policy since 1945 by Luca Trenta. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 400 pp., £95 hardcover 9781399519496, £25 e-…
Colleen Murrell warns of a quickening cycle of arresting journalists as pawns in geopolitical games.
Reporters Without Borders has welcomed the release of hostages by Russia…
Tom Kirk and Rose Pinnington argue that notions of how legitimacy is created must make room for the role of social norms and networks to better understand the wider implications …
Marnie Lloydd argues that it is in the gravest situations, when politics and other laws have failed, that rules are most needed.
Today marks 75 years since the adoption of…
Always wanted to write that book about progressive change but don’t know where to start? Oxfam’s Irene Guijt shares seven tips from an expert…
Imagine a conversation…
Glauco Ortolano explores the soft power myths being generated during the Olympics.
Acclaimed 20th Century Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa, Fernando Pessoa - Wikipedia opens…
C.J. Polychroniou argues that the authoritarian, dystopian settings that the U.S. created in so many places across the world are being reconceived by ultra-conservative forces…
Humanitarian funding is skewed by political bias and must recover a credible sense of neutrality to address massive humanitarian needs. To achieve this, Liana Ghukasyan calls on…
Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation is one of these famous books whose ideas have been so absorbed into social sciences that the books themselves are no longer read. This would be…
The Gulf Monarchies after the Arab Spring: Threats and Security by Cinzia Bianco. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. 206 pp., £85 hardcover 978-1-5261-7084-2
The Gulf…
Researchers synthesize climate resilience strategies from five global case studies.
From food and water security to sustainable housing, climate change disproportionately affects…