Tom Kirk

Tom is GP's Online Editor and researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

Post Archive

09 April 2019
Carol Guimaraes, project manager at Sustainable Cities Institute in São Paulo, explores how local advocacy can drive cities’ progressive agendas while being contested by…
08 April 2019
The G7, Anti-Globalism and the Governance of Globalization edited by Chiara Oldani and Jan Wouters. London and New York: Routledge 2018. 182 pp., £115 hardcover 9781138583627 The…
08 April 2019
Tom Kirk explores how World Vision analyses power and politics in a crisis to design humanatarian responses. In 2014, World Vision’s Johan Eldebo and colleagues set about…
04 April 2019
How cities can help address climate change induced food security.  Climate change is underway, and human activities such as urbanisation, industrialisation and food production are…
03 April 2019
On Friday 8 March, Faith Centre director James Walters delivered a lecture for the LSE International Development department’s Cutting Edge Issues in Development series. …
02 April 2019
With Eritrea, a strange partner has taken over the chair of the “Khartoum Process”, the forum for EU-African dialogue on migration. In early March 2019, the Eritrean government…
01 April 2019
Nicholas Beuret on why we need to look within countries and households to understand the source of dangerous emissions. American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently…
01 April 2019
Milan Varda interviews Filip Ejdus, Associate Professor of Security Studies at the University of Belgrade, about the view of European security from the periphery. How has the…
29 March 2019
Common Enemies: Crime, Policy, and Politics in Australia-Indonesia Relations by Michael McKenzie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 272 pp., $90 hardcover 9780198815754 While…
27 March 2019
Hala Hanna lays out Solve's 2019 Global Challenges for innovators looking to support the SDGs. A shared, connected future built by scalable innovative solutions could be the…
26 March 2019
Structural inequalities and discrimination are at the core of the caste system. Caste determines social hierarchy and restricts people's access to fundamental human rights. It…
22 March 2019
Jason Hickel argues that a famous graph purporting to show how globalisation has addressed inequality hides more than it reveals. There is a powerful infographic that has been…