Another weekly slice of excellence from the great William Lind. This week: why "good decisions are far more often a product of informal conversations than of...
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.
State of play
Amidst the predictable froth about 'strategic plans', 'program evaluations', 'senior reviews' and 'departmental performance plans' in the US State Dept's 2006...
New insurgent tactics
ForeignPolicy.com has a short but interesting piece on new insurgent tactics - downing helicopters, chlorine bombs, direct attacks on US bases and explosively...
Chris Chyba on biosecurity
Just back from a seminar on national security issues at Stanford University, where Chris Chyba gave an outstanding presentation on biosecurity. (Chyba's...
Biofuels and food prices
As the general enthusiasm for biofuels continues to accelerate unabated (most recently with the climate change deal secured at the EU Council of Ministers by...
Beyond the religious right…
The NY Times has a piece about an anti-war protest at the White House by thousands of Christians. John Pattison, 29, said he and his wife flew in from...
Institute for the Future on cooperation
The Palo Alto-based Institute for the Future have an outstanding report entitled The Literacy of Cooperation which sets out some cutting edge thinking on...
Urban planning: top down or bottom up?
Three new exhibitions have opened up in New York about the controversial urban planner Robert Moses. Moses was the architect of the New York World's Fair in...
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Towards a Just and Sustainable Economy?
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Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré and the Secret of [Almost] Eternal Rule
My book The Ringtone and the Drum turned two last Sunday. Conveniently, one of the countries it covers, Burkina Faso, promptly had a revolution. Yesterday a great crowd of protesters set fire to parliament, invaded the state television studios, and may have succeeded...