Can't confirm the accuracy of this report, but over at Balkinization, Brian Tamanaha has this: According to reports out of Kabul, the Taliban announced that...
Alex Evans
Alex Evans is a Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, and the author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren't Enough? (Penguin, 2017), a book about the power of deep stories to unlock transformational change. He lives in North Yorkshire and is currently working on political polarisation and learning dry stone walling. Full biog here.
Four key risks for India’s next PM
Indian writer Aravind Adiga yesterday offered the winner of India's election a heads-up on four emergencies likely to test them early in their term of office....
Best global warming video ever
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kRP5x2MsAw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
This is SOCA’s idea of success?
The Serious Organised Crime Agency has been trumpeting to the BBC that the international cocaine market is "in retreat" after a year of successful operations...
Obama’s White House correspondents’ dinner speech
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB1olxLwBWI[/youtube]
New report on international institutions and climate change
New report by Alex Evans and David Steven exploring the future international institutional requirements for managing climate change.
An Institutional Architecture for Climate Change
Report by Alex Evans and David Steven exploring the future international institutional requirements for managing climate change, and including three scenarios for climate institutions between now and 2030. Commissioned by the UK Department for International Development. (May 2009)
DC’s architects of a new approach to resource scarcity issues
More evidence of increasing awareness of scarcity issues (and the consequent need for integrated policy approaches to managing them) over in the US: this...
Pirate assault on the Liberty Sun – from Wired
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_KfSPkrw4[/youtube]
Decriminalisation of all drugs “a resounding success”
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China’s backing for Sri Lanka
As Sri Lanka's assault on the Tamil Tigers continues, Kotare has an interesting observation on an angle of the conflict that I'd missed: While the US is...
The Beijing Consensus
Back in March, I flagged up the significance of a proposal from Zhou Xiaochuan, China's central bank governor, for the dollar to be replaced as the world's...
Not especially on-topic, admittedly, but: extreme shepherding!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw[/youtube]
Republican attack ad on Obama’s 100 days
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKNbi-_Mxo8[/youtube]
Misplaced optimism?
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How to define success on climate change
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Swine flu vs. the Black Death
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Retrospective scenario planning
Heh heh. Jamais Cascio was at an Institute for the Future scenario planning workshop last week, where he gave a presentation on IFTF's three Fifty Year...
Jared Diamond on the evolution of religion
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th7CFye03gQ&fmt=18[/youtube]
Landgrab deals: actually water grabs
We've been posting regularly here about the various 'landgrab' third party food supply deals that have been such a feature of the last year or two (see the...
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