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The Executive Director of the UN Environment Program and the Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, Achim Steiner sat down with The Global Journal to discuss his views on the transition towards a green economy ...
As the first Internet stock bubble neared its popping point in 1999, IBM chief executive Lou Gerstner famously dismissed the dot-com start-ups of his day as “fireflies before the storm—all stirred up, throwing off ...
Diversity is not about quotas but fair representation. Following on from her previous analysis of NGO boards, Fairouz El Tom lays out the considerations NGOs should keep in mind when appointing board members. An executive ...
Figures reveal a clear disjunction between the world NGOs seek to create, and the world their governance structures reproduce. Diversity and inclusion are important to almost all non-governmental organisations. To what extent do NGO boards ...
Following a lonely French intervention in Mali, and growing tensions between the United States and North Korea – NATO is facing new challenges and thus forced to redefine the definition of security. The Global Journal sat ...
The Montreal Protocol demonstrated that nations can come together to successfully design and implement effective environmental legislation. The general public did not originally accept the idea of a hole in the ozone layer – yet over ...
In his article “The Challenges for European Identity” Francis Fukuyama claims the undergoing crisis in the European Union is primarily a crisis over its identity rather than economic or political foundations. While the author's ...
At a first glance, Belarus appears to be a calm and empty country, which many consider to be stuck in a Soviet-era time warp. Others describe it as a black hole, a ghost country. But ...
The late 1990’s witnessed the growth of Internet-based companies. Start-up companies became the next big thing for venture capitalists to invest in. Silicon Valley was the hub for technological innovation and the home of ...
Tell me a little bit about your project: OVDinfo.org. What do you hope to achieve? And what role does the Internet play? Our project came into existence after the first major protest against mass ...
Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, addresses an audience at Bilkent Univeristy Ankara upon receiving a Doctorat Honoris Causa, 15 March 2013. Ladies and gentlemen, Being with you in "bilim kenti," the city ...
There is a place where over the last 11 years human rights are systematically being violated on a daily basis. Locked up in dark detention cells, without ever seeing their family or other visitors save ...
The last two months have seen unprecedented friction between the United States and China over allegations of attacks by the latter on the computer networks and sensitive information of American business and government. The public ...
The proliferation of sexual violence and female oppression in India is truly disturbing. The Times of India recently reported that 95% of women in Delhi and the surrounding areas feel unsafe outdoors. While the recent ...
The 2008 crisis is special in that it will soon be renamed the 2008-2014 crisis. We know crises as emerging sharply and fading rapidly – this one is taking its time. We are experiencing a longue ...
Born on the eve of China’s Cultural Revolution, Ping Fu was separated from her family at the age of eight and left to care for her younger sister amidst squalor and humiliation at the ...
An award-winning political scientist specializing in the role of international regimes, John Ruggie was appointed in 2005 by then United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, to be the first ever Special Representative for Business and Human ...
Africa’s so-called ‘resource curse’ is a paradox that has endured. How is it that states enjoying a rich bounty in oil, gas or minerals can end up with worse economic growth and poorer development ...
The horrific gang-rape of a 23 year-old physiology student in a moving bus shortly after nightfall on December 16 in New Delhi has laid bare the failure of the Indian state to carry out one ...
Agriculture is at a crossroads. Since the global food crisis of 2007 and 2008, foreign investment has soared as a means to lower costs and ensure the long-term viability of worldwide supplies. At the same ...
Philippe Van Parijs is a central figure in the worlds of philosophy and politics alike. Described by Amartya Sen as “one of the most original and creative thinkers of our time,” he is famous for ...
Short Stalks at Distant Shores, Christoph Grill, Hatje Cantz, €58.00. Between 1999 and 2010, German photographer Christoph Grill visited the successor states of the Soviet Union. As he writes in the epilogue to Short ...
The Garden, Alessandro Imbriaco, Dewi Lewis Publishing, $48.00. In a small wooded swamp next to the Aniene River, under a concrete flyover on the bustling ring road circling the eastern outskirts of Rome, exists ...
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 ...
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