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James Dyke discusses his personal tipping point.
Everybody seems to be talking about climate change again. This time, a great deal of the coverage has been sympathetic to the idea…
Aliza Luft tackles a question essential for social science and for human rights work—how, and how much, does dehumanizing propaganda spread by planners of genocide affect the “…
Duncan Green on what a recent MA course taught with Global Policy's Tom Kirk tells us about the future of activism.
I’ve spent the last three weeks buried in marking. For most…
China in the Global Political Economy: From Developmental to Entrepreneurial by Gordon C.K. Cheung. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2018. 224 pp., £75 hardcover 978-1-78471-490-1.
While…
What if collective introspection made us into better campaigners?
Campaigners aren’t known for being contemplative. By definition they are trying to change something beyond…
Dimitris Xygalatas engages the problems of the generalizability and comparability of research results and their “ecological validity.” Xygalatas argues for the “methodological…
Making data work for social good requires bolder approaches to managing government data as a critical public asset.
Data as a government asset
What is the value of open data…
We should look to the Nordic countries for inspiration on how to overcome the 1 percent and address climate change.
According to the latest report from the United Nation…
Researchers hope to learn more about how countries might act in nuclear warfare scenarios.
Researchers designed the game to explore how various weapons capabilities, such as low-…
Development Studies alumnus and journalist, Scott Carpenter, summarises and shares his analysis of a new working paper from the IMF which suggests we need a closer…
Leah Clark finds evidence of globalisation in art.
For many, the Renaissance was the revival or “rebirth” of Western classical antiquity, associated with great artists painting…
James Ranger attempts to address the issue of what ‘being’ political is all about and why answering the conundrum matters.
When political theorists debate the nature of the ‘…
Duncan Green on what INGOs can do in fast developing semi-authoritarian countries.
Oxfam country directors face an unenviable task – juggling the daily management bureaucracy of…
To mark Europe Day, 2019 – Charta 2020 is a vision for a democratic and egalitarian European Union, and a demand to recognize 20 European public goods that are essential to the…
Technology has massive potential to deliver a positive impact on our society – when people are at the heart of it. Civil society organizations have been harnessing technology to…