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Sentientist Politics: A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice by Alasdair Cochrane. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 162 pp., £55.00 hardcover 978-0-198-78980-2
This book…
Aidy Halimanjaya argues that Jokowi’s focus should be on pushing forward Indonesia’s energy sector reforms.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s plan to move the Indonesia’s capital…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been at the centre of the last four G20 summits. In 2015, at the Antalya Summit, world…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. It’s difficult to imagine a better backdrop for the G20 commemorative ‘family’ photograph than Osaka Castle, a magnificent structure…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. If your only experience of Japan was two days holed up with the global media in the Osaka Intex centre for this year’s G20, you’d be…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. A recent report by the Union of Kansai Governments has estimated that almost 10 million pieces of plastic bags are currently adrift…
International Media Centre - G20 Osaka Summit. The circulation of US daily newspapers is at its lowest since the 1940s thanks to the growing influence of social media in an era of…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. In the modern world, there are endless reasons to be stressed. The planet is dying, rent is too high, and worst of all, the coffee…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. When Carlos “Le Cost Killer” Ghosn, the French-Brazilian-Lebanese national and fearsome CEO of the Renault-Nissan alliance, touched…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. The G20 Osaka Summit is the perfect opportunity for world leaders to escape the pressures of day-to-day domestic and international…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. Brazilian exports to Japan, already quite low, have dropped further this year.
While en route to the G20 summit in Osaka, a member…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. “One of the easiest and most effective ways to understand a culture is through its food”, said Yoshiko Nishihama, owner of Nishi, a…
National innovation strategies are of crucial importance. They determine the types of innovation that are prioritised and funded. But who is deciding which innovations we should…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. The G20 Osaka Summit could play host to the blossoming of a love triangle that nobody asked for, with Emanuel Macron and Abe Shinzō…
International Media Centre – G20 Osaka Summit. Japan’s second city displays a distinct identity and culture and is always keen to extol its virtues to anyone who is listening.…