Tom Kirk

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

Post Archive

12 March 2020
World Vision’s five lessons about the nexus delivering change in fragile contexts. More than one quarter of all people live in countries affected by fragility, conflict and…
11 March 2020
Karin Costa Vazquez argues that the 'bilateralization' of the BRICS expands the options for the grouping to act and may be the only way for it to survive another decade.…
10 March 2020
Global Policy's Executive Editor, Dr Eva-Maria Nag, takes stock of 10 years of publications, online content, collaborations, debate and events, and on why our platform…
06 March 2020
Social network analysis is a branch of data science that allows the investigation of how people connect and interact. It can help to reveal patterns in voting preferences, aid the…
04 March 2020
The resurgence of far-right populism, from Brazil to Europe to India and the US, presents a challenge to NGOs unforeseen even a few years ago. The common thread of ethno-…
03 March 2020
As the world seems to wake-up to new challenges on a daily basis – from devastating wildfires in Australia, to the unpredictable global spread of a new coronavirus – it may be…
02 March 2020
Protest in an age of globalization relies on performance. From Hong Kong to La Paz and Santiago to Khartoum, global attention is increasingly captured by mass movements of people…
26 February 2020
The internet revolution of the past 20 years has opened up countless new ways for people to shop, bank, find love – and to commit crimes. Every time we switch on a computer, open…
26 February 2020
Emilian Kavalski and Nicholas Ross Smith, from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, explore the coronavirus outbreak through an international…
25 February 2020
Antonia Jennings argues that now is not the time for despair. Neoliberalism is limping to its death, and it’s up to us to make sure that what comes next isn’t something worse. Get…
24 February 2020
Economists necessarily lack evidence about alternative institutional arrangements that are distant from our current reality. The challenge is to remain true to empiricism without…
19 February 2020
I recently sat down with Akosua Adomako Ampofo, President of the African Studies Association of Africa to discuss her life, decolonization (including my own) and the research…
12 February 2020
Given the success of populist politicians across Europe, some pro-Europeans have openly wondered whether they should adopt the same tactics as populist parties to make the case…
11 February 2020
Agata Lulkowska explores the world's love of South Korean cinema. The international success of Parasite, the black comedy thriller by Bong Joon-ho, has been rather…