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Sumithra Prasanna argues that we are in the midst of a debilitating 'infodemic' caused by our inability to make sense of the COVID-19 story.
We all love stories. We have a…
Graham Teskey explores potential governance challenges facing practitioners when the COVID-19 pandemic dissipates.
Pandemics are depressingly common in human history. We…
Amine Bennis highlights here how thematic diplomacy is an effective tool for middle powers to both increase their influence and promote shared interests with smaller states.
A key…
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Duncan Green introduces a forthcoming Global Policy Essay on COVID-19 as a 'critical juncture' during…
Harry Sanders looks for international models to solve Scotland's growing demographic crisis.
After years of discussion and debate, Brexit appeared to move one step further…
Jordy Lee and Morgan Bazilian explain why supply chain disruptions from COVID 19 are indicative of larger problems within the mining industry. Without holding mining…
Juergen Braunstein and Sachin Silva explore the need for financial risk models to account for pandemics.
The Dow Jones industrial average recorded its highest single-day…
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik examines the politics of humanitarian wearables to understand more about how digitization is reshaping the nature and relations of aid.
Utopian…
Iwa Salami reports on countries relaxing cryptocurrency regulations in the wake of COVID-19 and what this may mean for the technology's future.
Anyone holding bitcoin…
Maddie Grounds explores calls for the automation of health services and what they may mean for the NHS.
Covid-19 is an unprecedented time in our history. The global pandemic…
The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism 1860-1914 by Donald Sassoon. Allen Lane 2019. 753 pp, £30 hardcover 978-0-241-31516-3, £14.99 paperback 978-0-141-98655-5, £30…
Xi Lin unpicks China's grassroots led efforts “to serve the governed” in response to COVID-19.
A short video went viral in China over the past two days. A Chinese student…
Nathan Alexander Sears wonders whether the explosion of state power in response to COVID-19 will abate or become a feature of our lives.
The COVID-19 virus has now spread to 168…
Neil Webster on how bilateral and multilateral donor agencies can help Africa weather the Third Wave of Corvid-19.
In 2018 the WHO published a report in which they discussed the…
As the coronavirus sweeps across the world with alarming speed and ferocity, the world is finally waking up to the realisation that the pandemic could result in a global…