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Last October, the Deepwater Project, led by Nobel laureate Martin Beniston, was the winner of the first ever GLOBAL+5 Innovation Award. Thanks to support from the University of Geneva, the Dudley Wright Foundation and ...
Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia, Siddharth Kara, Columbia University Press, $29.50. Gaurav is a withered old laborer in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Aged eight when his father ...
Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age, Jonanthan Kahn, Columbia University Press, $35.00 Race in a Bottle dives headfirst into the ethics of classification and begs ...
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh, Allen Lane, £25.00. Kofi Annan’s Interventions is one of those rare books allowing the reader to feel they have gained access ...
Making the European Monetary Union, Harold James, Harvard University Press, $35.00. It is hard to read Making the European Monetary Union. Not because the euro is part of the story, but because the clarity ...
How We Forgot the Cold War: A historical Journey Across America, Jon Wiener, University of California Press, $34.95. In Nevada, a bomb crater is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. At a ...
Future Perfect: The Case Progress in a Networked Age, Steven Johnson, Allen Lane, £20.00. In his 2001 book Emergence, technology writer Steven Johnson led readers on a fascinating tour of adaptive self-organizing systems – the ...
Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America, Jonathan Levy, Harvard University Press, $35.00. In Freaks of Fortune, Princeton University historian Jonathan Levy argues financial risk emerges from a culture ...
Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health, Joseph Dumit, Duke University Press, $23.95. The average American is prescribed and purchases between nine and 13 prescription-only drugs per year. Overall healthcare expenditures were ...
The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction, Nate Silver, Allen Lane, £25.00. In the quest to feed its hunger for knowledge, humanity has made relentless steps towards diminishing its state ...
A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China's Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future, Jiang Qing, Princeton University Press, $39.50. The latest book by prominent Chinese scholar Jiang Qing, A Confucian Constitutional Order is ...
The desire to reimagine an architectural fear as productive urban space led Koen Olthuis, of award winning Netherlands-based Waterstudio.NL, to create floating ‘City Apps.’ Modular building platforms that sit atop the water, these innovative ...
Never has the world witnessed a large market emerge so quickly as China. As the economy grows, it is also changing. China is fast climbing the value curve, transitioning from low-cost manufacturing to innovation-led growth ...
Despite explosive economic growth, China’s civil society remains in turmoil. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, the Chinese government has enforced strict censorship, often using extra-judicial measures to silence human rights defenders. According ...
Kenya’s recent presidential election not only ushered in a new government, but also represented the first test of the country’s new 2010 Constitution. A glimmer of hope after the post-electoral violence of 2007 ...
The tale of two worlds – the fabulously rich and the increasingly poor – is a defining narrative of contemporary life, and it continues to throw up vivid reminders, at once doleful and grimly hilarious. One of ...
The Commonwealth is sleepwalking towards a human rights disaster, if it goes ahead with November's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo, where it will be presided over by Sri Lanka's President Mahinda ...
Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and also research professor at SOAS, University of London. He is ...
In the run up to the 22nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Kalon Dicki Chhoyang addressed the issue of Sino-Tibetan relations at the 5th Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy on ...
Training rats to save lives HQ Location: Tanzania In the popular imagination, the link between rats and human well-being is a negative one, shaped by fears of disease. In the hands of APOPO, however, the ...
“You are asking what would we do to the terrorists if we find them? We will destroy them.” These were the words of French President, Francois Hollande, a few days after having launched Operation Serval ...
Media freedom remains elusive and yet necessary in the post-communist sphere. The European Union, in particular, struggles to find the middle ground between intervention, controlling the media, and supporting full decommunization. Indeed, recent events in ...
For the first time, the three global institutions dealing with health, intellectual property and trade have pooled their expertise on a study of policies needed to advance medical technologies and ensure they reach the people ...
At WCIT-12 in Dubai in December, the 193 member states of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) met to review a treaty that has formed the global framework for telecommunications regulation for almost 25 years. A ...
The French-led non-profit organization Tara Expeditions has been organizing missions aboard the research schooner Tara for the past nine years. Usually traversing the world’s oceans to learn more about the impact of climate change ...
Like economic globalization, transnational civil society is often seen as a recent phenomenon. From the worldwide protests of the Occupy Movement, to environmental advocacy campaigns ahead of RIO+20, and multi-faceted development programs implemented on ...
As negotiations on a new Mercury Convention wrap up in Geneva, Richard Fuller presents the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP), a new collaborative body tasked with coordinating resources and activities to solve toxic ...
We are pleased to present the second edition of The Global Journal’s Top 100 NGOs ranking. In introducing the inaugural list, we began by asking: just what is a non-government organization? On this, our ...
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