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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.
Outside the Super Tuesday spotlight…
In Kenya the death toll now tops 1,000, according to the International Red Cross (quoted in a CBC story yesterday). The number of internally displaced people...
FCO’s new strategic framework
The Foreign Office launched its new Strategic Framework yesterday. It seems rather a grand title for a leaflet that stretches to two pages of A4, but perhaps...
China’s winter storm
Tim Johnson's China Rises blog has this video of chaotic scenes outside a southern China rail station in the midst of China's winter storm. As Tim says,...
On statebuilding and the English Channel
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More on the cut internet cables
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Wikileaking
Those of our readers in public service will be delighted to hear of a new project designed especially for you: Wikileaks. The short version is explained on...
The IMF’s structural adjustment
The excellent Bretton Woods Project has news of happenings at the International Monetary Fund: it's having to lay off 15 per cent of its staff. Here's more:...
European security in 2020 – straw poll of policymakers and research experts
I did a straw poll this morning of the 70 or so participants at Wilton Park's European Security in 2020 conference (mainly policymakers from foreign and...
NATO feels the strain
Tempers are fraying in NATO. Following Canadian PM Stephen Harper's threat to withdraw its troops from Kandahar in the south of Afghanistan if other NATO...
Surely not
This is what we are contemplating. Something new. Something big. Something bold. Something that works. Something that will prod young and old alike. To join...
No love lost in the post-Soviet commonwealth
In the margins of Wilton Park’s conference on European security in 2020, a timely reminder that for some of the delegates here – who, collectively, represent...
The UN Under Secretary-General your mother warned you about
Sha Zukang, the smooth-dressing, tough-talking USG in charge of the dedicated men and women of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, is in The...
The resilient community
John Robb's thinking about resilient communities over at Global Guerrillas: It should be clear, as we watch the gyrations and excesses of global markets, that...
Wilton Park speech on scarcity and resilience
Charlie and I are both off to Wilton Park this afternoon for a conference on European security in 2020. I'm presenting on scarcity and resilience, and why...
Police reform in Fallujah
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How binding targets drive technology
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From Bali to Copenhagen: towards an endgame for global climate policy?
Article by Alex Evans for the Environmental Policy & Law Journal (January 2008).
“Like Benjamin Barber after a three-day coke bender in Macao”
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How much of Slovenia’s EU Presidency has been scripted in Washington?
News is breaking of the resignation yesterday of a senior Slovenian diplomat who, press reports in Slovenia claim, had taken orders from the US about...
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