Global Politics
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The future of International Cooperation Dynamics, post COVID-19
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A clear parallel between the coronavirus pandemic and climate change is emerging. Both highlight the need for a coordinated response. Both present implications for the rise or demise of globalisation. And in both cases, the effectiveness of response measures depends on the modernisation of international cooperation dynamics. For decades Official Development Assistance (ODA) agencies have…
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Can you put a price on saving a life from coronavirus?
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The novel Coronavirus pandemic has stopped the world in its tracks. In particular, the onslaught of cases and community spread in the United States has sent the Federal Government into a full-blown panic. After poo-pooing the virus for weeks as something less dangerous than the common Flu, the government has begun to roll out plans…
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The U.S. Needs A Reinvigorated National Service Program
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With the 2020 Democratic Primary drawing to a mundane close, it seems fitting to look back at the exciting race that was. In a crowded field where many once-promising candidates and touted “front-runners” failed to catch a footing, others made their impact known. Some candidates garnered headlines as champions of a specific cause. Andrew Yang,…
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The Case for Humility in Our COVID-19 Response
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As of mid-March 2020, the United Kingdom’s strategy for battling the COVID-19 pandemic is markedly different from that of virtually every other Western country. While the UK government’s more relaxed policy is provoking controversy among scientists and policymakers around the world, there is a subtle irony that we should not lose amidst the chaos –…
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Beyond the GDP: How the African Development Bank could grow Africans
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OXFORD, England – While tracking the trajectory of African economies, the African Development Bank (AfDB) must be wary of overlooking the most essential constituent of Africa’s economic potential, a healthy African. It is cliché that the youthful African population promises a brighter future for the continental economy. But it must be remembered that it is…
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The Moderates Strike Back
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The resurrection of the Biden campaign is poised to be the most consequential development of the 2020 Democratic nomination process. Within a little more than a week Joe Biden went from running a struggling campaign in a crowded Democratic race, to become the sole moderate candidate left standing to oppose Bernie Sanders. It was always…
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Book Review: Genealogies of Capitalist Realism
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Eugene McCarraher (2019), The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. Harvard University Press.Thomas Piketty (2020), Capital and Ideology. Harvard University Press. ‘It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism’. Such was the strange malaise of our times as captured by the late Mark Fisher’s notion…
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The Guests of Nero
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In his poignant film Nero’s Guests,1 historian P. Sainath describes Tacitus’ account of the burning of Rome in 64 A.D. As Rome was engulfed in civil unrest, Emperor Nero opened his gardens to throw the grandest party the ancient world had seen, as a distraction for those who wielded both power and influence. There was…
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The Success Condition for Protests
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One type of argument for the justification of protest activities has appealed to pragmatic considerations.1 Guided by the principle ‘the means should prefigure the end,’ defenders of what I call ‘the success condition for protests’ have argued that protests—and particular forms of it—are permissible only by virtue of their success2 in bringing forth practical results…
