A couple of weeks ago I posted news of a competition for 20 places for bloggers at the G20 London Summit on 2nd April, which would be allocated on the basis...
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.
How green is your stimulus?
Nick Robins at HSBC has just sent over a copy of their excellent report A Climate for Recovery, which compares the green element of economic recovery plans...
Thinking the unthinkable
Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of our economic crisis and ask a radical question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something...
Global Dashboard needs your help
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U-turn at the IEA?
Nobuo Tanaka, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, is quoted in the FT this morning as saying that "it would be in the interests of...
Time to dump 0.7
Why does 0.7 remain so central to the development debate, given that it was arbitrary even when it was agreed… forty years ago?
Network Disruption Bingo
One thing all serious experts on disasters and resilience agree on is the need to keep your morale up while everything you thought you could rely on is...
FCO’s YouTube channel has 163 videos. This is the most viewed by miles
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDlFL8jIeys[/youtube]
CNN on politicians caught drunk at the microphone
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2IaKWyl4Lc&NR=1[/youtube]
After the crunch: more urbanisation or less?
Consensus may be growing that the credit crunch spells the end of suburbia – but will what comes next involve more urbanisation, or less?
IAEA helps food task force, provides mutant banana strains (no, really)
I shouldn't laugh, as clearly it behoves all right-thinking people to applaud examples of UN agencies 'delivering as one' wherever we may find them. But...
Risks and Resilience in the New Global Era – new journal article
Article by Alex Evans and David Steven exploring resilience as a political agenda – part of a special edition of Renewal on the transformation of foreign policy (February 2009)
Risks and Resilience in the New Global Era
Article by Alex Evans and David Steven exploring resilience as a political agenda – part of a special edition of Renewal on the transformation of foreign policy (February 2009)
Lost in translation: another John McHugh short from Afghanistan
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yzxkE72vkA&feature=channel_page[/youtube]
Nation builders or warriors: John McHugh for the Guardian in Afghanistan
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnpQY7kCmuY&feature=channel_page[/youtube]
Ray Kurzweil on the singularity
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfbOyw3CT6A[/youtube]
Andrew Mwenda: let’s take a new look at African aid
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfobLjsj230[/youtube]
Dead aid?
Former Goldman Sachs economist Dambisa Moyo has just published a new book entitled Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa....
Stimulus package: you’re doing it wrong
Tom Friedman has a radical new approach in mind to saving the US economy: Leave it to a brainy Indian to come up with the cheapest and surest way to stimulate...
Joseph Tainter, author of ‘The Collapse of Complex Societies’
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr9FO15CHO4[/youtube]
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