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In its new special report on climate change and land, the IPCC calls for more effective and sustainable land management, and more sustainable food consumption. But who is the onus…
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier. 2018. Penguin. ISBN: 0062748653
This is the second part of my review of Paul Collier’s “The future of…
Journalists, politicians and regular citizens have spent much time in recent years discussing the ‘Chinese dream’. It’s our vision of China’s journey into the future.
I believe…
This blog is part of a series on FP2P exploring the lessons from a recent MA course at the LSE taugtht by Duncan Green and Global Policy's Tom Kirk.
Final instalment from my…
A new conception of privacy as an ambient, public good is necessary if we are to save our rights as individuals.
The need to regulate online privacy is a truth so universally…
Christine Corlet Walker asks if the solutions we promote to climate change are limited by what powerful organisations deem politically feasible?
You may have missed it, but a…
The Politics of Terror by Erica Chenoweth and Pauline Moore. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018. 512 pp., £47.99 paperback 978-0-19-979566-6
Under the backdrop of…
Greg Falconer, Director of Innovation Policy at Nesta, offers Britain's new Prime Minister some advice on how to keep his promises to make the country a world leader in…
What does the term "globalization" mean? Is it a strictly economic phenomenon or does it involve several dimensions? How it is currently presented in the middle of the digital…
How can you forget when the internet won’t let you?
I have just taken an entire website and gigabytes of data offline. It covered a highly successful series of conferences on the…
Jason Hickel argues that we must not forget why inequality matters.
How should we measure inequality? There are two metrics that economists use: relative and absolute. In…
What if our homes were alive? I don’t mean smart homes with the disembodied voice of Alexa deciding the setting for your living room spotlights. I mean actually alive – growing,…
Why is it that just 1p of a £2.50 cup of coffee goes to the farmer who cultivated and harvested the coffee beans?
Mainstream politics in Europe and North America is increasingly…
Resilient Communities: Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War by Jana Krause. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018. 306 pp., £75 hardcover 9781108471114
The…
Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil is at its highest rate in a decade, according to new satellite data. This comes after president Jair Bolsonaro has loosened …