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With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic two key tenets for humanitarian aid that often go together, context analysis and travel, are now in tension. World Vision’s Johan Eldebo…
Nayef Al-Rodhan overviews some of the opportunities and worries about the use of big data to address pandemics.
The COVID19 pandemic has re-energized the interest in Big…
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures– Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 10…
Over a billion people living in poverty and a $500 million per day loss of income for the poorest people in the world could soon be reality.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to…
Jon (Yuan) Jiang explores the BRI's ideological aims and why they may inadvertently threaten others.
For a raft of typically conspiratorially inclined commentators, the Belt and…
As governments decide to postpone elections or alter electoral processes because of COVID-19, it is crucial that they have a transparent debate about doing so. Importantly, they…
Helidah Didi Ogude argues that a long history of neoliberal state policies have left a US welfare system unfit for purpose and a citizenry wrongly held responsible for their …
Professor Anoush Ehteshami introduces four 'coronavirus diaries' written by his PhD students from different areas of the world, yet undertaking their studies at Durham…
Ba-Linh Tran and Robyn Klingler-Vidra highlight lessons from Vietnam’s currently successful easing of lockdown restrictions.
Vietnam eased social distancing…
Caroline Tynan unpicks why South Korea and Taiwan has been so effective at countering COVID-19.
Since the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, challenges to democratic…
George Kibala Bauer argues that we must seek nuanced perspectives, engage with local realities, and transcend the Western gaze when reporting on Covid and Africa.…
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 10 years…
Insofar as the world economy was already on a fragile, unsustainable path, COVID-19 clarifies the challenges we face and the decisions we must make. The fate of the world economy…
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism by Wendy Liu. Repeater. 2020.
Amongst the turmoil of recent years, there are perhaps two broad overriding…
Juergen Braunstein and Sachin Silva argue that sovereign wealth funds may be central to governments' efforts to balance public responsibility with private interests in…