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Although many on the centre-left in the West have effectively found themselves defending a neoliberal form of globalisation about which they should previously have been more sceptical, there were plenty […]
Colombia’s peace process, including the negotiations carried out by the Colombian government under President Santos and the FARC guerrilla movement […]
Charlotte Hoole outlines four core principles for a post-Brexit English devolution agenda
Rival economic nationalist projects pursued by key countries can only push the global political economy into a dangerously unstable new mercantilist era
Patrick Kaczmarczyk argues that successful economic development in Palestine will require an adequate theory of development, industrial policy, and institutional reforms
Globalisation should not be seen as some kind of inevitable technological imperative but rather as a political construction born of a particular phase in history
Within the last few years, Susan Strange has made history by becoming the first female academic to have a professorship […]
In this blog, Jon Morris discusses the ways through which education creates a positive impact on the social sustainability of the global textile industry.
In this blog, Remi Edwards discusses the ways through which corporations market commodities as ethically sourced, in spite of systemic labour exploitation.
In the second of a two-part blog Matt Bishop and Tony Payne further explore the question ‘Is Britain undeveloping’?