Tom Kirk

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

Post Archive

25 October 2018
Stephen Hopgood argues that the survival and flourishing of human rights requires people. When considering the future of human rights and whether they will be viewed as more, or…
24 October 2018
    There has been an increase in competition in the global agricultural sector that causes distress among small scale farmers who are increasingly left behind in this process.…
24 October 2018
How we measure attention incentivises content that erodes our public sphere and polarises communities, including in the Global South. Could better metrics incentivise better…
23 October 2018
Keep your cyber tools close, your history books closer. For some, the signing of the July 2015 Iran nuclear deal might appear as a “watershed moment” for abating the flow of Iran’…
22 October 2018
Murilo Gaspardo frames Brazil's recent elections in the context of an ongoing worldwide challenge to political liberalism. The outcome of the October 7th Brazil’s elections…
17 October 2018
Yunnan Chen and Cinnamon Dornsife explore the prospects for the future of global economic governance. A decade after the global financial crisis that began in 2008, the search for…
16 October 2018
Grier Wilt outlines what is needed to assure girls can pursue careers in STEM.  At the turn of the decade, 20% of all jobs in the US required high-level knowledge in…
16 October 2018
Nick Grief explores the limited representation of airspace in international law and technological change. In little more than 100 years, humans have radically transformed the sky…
15 October 2018
Trusting Enemies: Interpersonal Relationships in International Conflict by Nicholas J Wheeler. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018. 384 pp., £25.49 hardcover 9780199696475…
12 October 2018
Banksy’s prank on the art market rhymes with our common struggle against financialization’s shredding of society. Banksy’s latest art prank, in which one of his iconic works …
11 October 2018
Stefan Dercon of the Blavatnik School of Government introduces two new reports. This post first appeared on From Poverty to Power. Am I alone? Was I the only one who could not…
10 October 2018
On the day that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that we only have 12 years left in which to prevent climate catastrophe, an American climate…
08 October 2018
To date, labor clauses in trade agreements have remained a fig leaf, neither raising labor standards abroad nor protecting them at home. Real change would require a significantly…