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Book Review – A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism by Jeffrey D. Sachs. New York: Columbia University Press 2018. 272 pp., £13.99 hardcover 9780231188487, £13.99 e…
Branko Milanovic on why we accept 'second best' solutions to climate change.
There are obvious and (to some people) surprising similarities between global climate…
Duncan Green with some ideas for a more realistic, human-centred, foreign aid agenda.
Last week I went along to the annual conference of DFID’s Social Development Advisers (SDAs…
Scott L. Montgomery explores how climate change deniers have had the monopoly of ideas around energy use in the United States of America.
Max Lerner was a Russian…
Pupils in 60 countries went on strike from school on March 15, 2019, to demand urgent action from the world’s leaders on climate change. Here, a scientist answers teenagers’…
Conducting research in new socio-economic spaces can bring unexpected challenges. For two researchers in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo their identities as white…
Does living in an EU member state give citizens a more positive view of the EU? Rosalind Shorrocks and Roosmarijn de Geus show how extended exposure to European Union membership…
The dominance of scholars from the global North is widespread, and this extends to the student curriculum. Data on reading lists shows large authorial imbalances, which has…
Kieron O'Hara and Wendy Hall ask what kind of governance arrangements are needed for a world with four internets.
On the fringe of the 2019 World Economic Forum gathering at Davos…
Jason Hickel argues that we have to rethink our obsession with growth to avert coming disasters.
Warnings about ecological breakdown have become ubiquitous. Over the past…
Such a party would contribute to the formation of a global demos – a pluralist, evolving political community of world citizens exercising political rights in a globalized public…
Alexander Piel, Fiona Stewart and Lydia Luncz argue that we are risking losing a unique chance to discover the full extent of cultural diversity in our closest living relatives.…
Mishal Khan, Fatim Lakha and Helena Legido-Quigley report on a mixed methods analysis of gender and ethnicity-related differences in career progression at top-ranked academic…
Gabriele Furia argues that the war on drugs is being used to reintroduce militarism into democracies and a new approach is needed.
A 40 year-long prohibitionist strategy did not…
For International Women’s Day, Krista Kartson introduces us to Seyi Akiwowo, Newham’s youngest Councillor and the founder of Glitch, a non-profit startup aimed at ending cyber…