Tom Kirk

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

Post Archive

09 November 2018
Institutional Cosmopolitanism edited by Luis Cabrera. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 304 pp., £47.99 hardcover 978-0190905651, £45.59 Kindle edition  …
09 November 2018
Cara Stauß, a representative of the German state of Baden-Württemberg to the European Union, explores the role regions and cities can play addressing global challenges.  1.…
08 November 2018
Duncan Green explores the aid sector's enduring blind spot. I’ve spotted a recurring problem with the way the aid sector talks about fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS). …
07 November 2018
Higher education, although clearly not a government priority, is becoming a bargaining chip as the UK considers its future outside the EU. Anne Corbett examines the UK government’…
06 November 2018
Oliver Taherzadeh and Benedict Probst weigh in on eating less meat to address climate change. Here we go again. The “sceptical environmentalist”, Bjorn Lomborg, has returned to…
06 November 2018
This week, Lukas Schlogl and Andy Sumner up their special series on the future of economic development, work, and wages in developing countries. We draw some…
05 November 2018
Marina Costa Esteves Coutinho comments on the rise of old messages in Brazil's recent elections.  The result of Brazil’s latest national election follows the current…
01 November 2018
The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration: Politics, Law, and Unintended Consequences by Taylor St John. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018. 304 pp., £60 hardcover 9780198789918…
01 November 2018
Observers have noted we are now in the midst of a “Fourth Industrial Revolution” whereby new digital technologies and big data both offer the potential to address longstanding…
31 October 2018
Richard Falk's lecture on 'World Order in the Age of Trump and Trumpism' at West Chester University, October 24, 2018. The title requires a few words of explanation. By the ‘Age…
31 October 2018
Ten years after the G20 held its first ever summit, the informal group is meeting for the first time in South America. But can the closely watched gathering calm tensions amid the…
30 October 2018
Seamus Garvey argues in favour of an innovative way to store renewable energy.  Electricity generated by fossil fuels is increasingly unsustainable and a shift towards renewable…
30 October 2018
Guy Ryder on why an aptitude for lifelong learning is needed to future-proof jobs markets.  The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2018 gives some cause for…
29 October 2018
“No somos peces para vivir del mar. No somos aves para vivir del aire. Somos hombres para vivir de la tierra » [We are not fish to love from the sea. We are not birds to live from…