'Today, the Biden administration must determine what to do and do it quickly.'
Category: Long Read
Policy Options for the Green Transition: Command-and-Control and Market-Based Policies.
'This piece will examine command-and-control polices and market-based policies, which are the first policy categories that usually come to mind when thinking about climate policy.'
Climate Change, Market Failures, and the Need for Government Intervention.
'Climate change "is the mother of all externalities: larger, more complex, and more uncertain than any other environmental problem"'
How could the European Union promote a sustainable food system while enabling food security?
'The EU must transform its food system in the following years and promote a decentralised food system.'
The End of the Internet?
'While the world closely observes the political turmoil in the US, a new wave of censorship suggests a dire future for the freedom of the Internet.'
Is the contemporary crisis best understood through ‘problem solving’ or ‘critical’ international theory?
'Above all, the faults of both problem solving and critical approaches reveal the limitations of relying on theory itself to help understand both contemporary and past crises'
The Generation Who Loves Marxism Yet Do Not Understand It: Guest Opinion Piece by Filip Đukić
'In their heads is the idea of some magical attraction to communism, even though they know nothing or very little of it.'
How can the EU reform its fiscal framework to meet its climate targets?
'The Covid-19 pandemic adversely impacts the EU’s economy. Thus, the EU requires a strong green growth strategy to mitigate the adverse economic impact of the pandemic, meet its climate targets, and restore its economic competitiveness'
To what extent was the Brezhnev Doctrine a successful policy for the Soviet Union?
In the following essay, I will examine to what extent was the Brezhnev Doctrine a successful policy for the Soviet Union. It will attempt to answer this question by investigating what the Brezhnev Doctrine was, its policies, and the impact it had for the Soviet Union’s credibility. This will be done by scrutinising the events … Continue reading To what extent was the Brezhnev Doctrine a successful policy for the Soviet Union?
George Blake’s death marks the declining memory of the Cold War’s lessons
'The lives of men like Blake serve as an example of the realities that global politics consists of and dissolves the assumptions that we often take for granted.'