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David Steven
David Steven is a senior fellow at the UN Foundation and at New York University, where he founded the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, a multi-stakeholder partnership to deliver the SDG targets for preventing all forms of violence, strengthening governance, and promoting justice and inclusion. He was lead author for the ministerial Task Force on Justice for All and senior external adviser for the UN-World Bank flagship study on prevention, Pathways for Peace. He is a former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of The Risk Pivot: Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution (Brookings Institution Press, 2014). In 2001, he helped develop and launch the UK’s network of climate diplomats. David lives in and works from Pisa, Italy.
Eyjafjallajökull: What happens after airspace re-opens? (updated x2)
My take (1, 2, 3) on complex emergencies such as the Eyjafjallajökull crisis is that governments have to get ahead of the curve, or be steadily choked by...
Hey FCO – tell us what you’re doing on Eyjafjallajökull (updated x3)
Yesterday, I warned that governments were losing control of the Eyjafjallajökull crisis: In the UK, it doesn’t help that there’s an election on. But Lord...
Eyjafjallajökull from space
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Calais Rescue Shut Down! (updated)
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Eyjafjallajökull – Europe’s slow motion crisis (updated x5)
As the Eyjafjallajökull eruption continues, my sense is that the crisis is beginning to become quite serious (check out radar of Europe's empty skies). Lots...
The Cameron Girls
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Iceland volcano footage
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British taxpayer sucker in alleged Goldman fraud (update x8)
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Lord Monckton is a birther
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Should the Guardian check facts? (updated x3)
This morning, The Guardian's website leads with a polling sensation. Apparently, Nick Clegg did so well is last night's debate that the British election is...
Daniel Hannan watches the Wire
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The hacks opposing START
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Set Research Free
The absurd price of online access to academic journals is a scandal. It costs $15 to look at this paper I co-wrote for Science on HIV/AIDS (for just 24...
Lieberman says no on nuclear treaty
It seems that the START treaty is going to struggle to make it through the Senate, despite President Obama's confidence that a swift passage is possible....
Without America, innovation will die
Jonah Golderg (of cheese-eating surrender monkey and liberal fascism fame) is no fan of Europe (Switzerland, excepted). Today, he frets that, if Obama is...
Will START get ratified?
I've been wondering whether the new US-Russia nuclear pact is a cert for ratification (it needs 67 votes to get through the Senate). If this treaty...
Brookings Long Crisis Seminar
Opening Remarks at a Seminar on Confronting the Long Crisis of Globalization – Risk, Resilience and International Order (pdf of paper), Brookings Institution,...
The Long Crisis Seminar
Introductory remarks by David Steven at a Brookings Institution seminar on risk and resilience in the global system (March 2010)
The Long Financial Crisis (updated)
Maybe the global financial crisis started back in the 1990s…
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