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Oliver Walton and Andrew Johnstone discuss how UK conflict and development policy since 2015 has become more fragmented and explore the wider implications of this case for the security-development nexus. International development policy in UK, long seen as a relatively...

James Copestake On 16 November this year Malawi ratified the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) - see WHO (2023). This is worthy of note given that the main thrust of this global agreement is to...

In this piece first published on LSE blogs, Sam Nadel and Oliver Walton discuss how state measures to prevent support reaching terrorist groups can impede the work of humanitarian organisations. Recent crises from Gaza to Afghanistan are a reminder of...

In this piece originally published by The Conversation, Jason Hart comments on the fear and violence being experienced by children across the political divide. Among the hundreds already dead in the latest hostilities between Israel and Hamas, very many are...

by James Copestake In an era of heightened crisis and uncertainty, prospects for anticipating future trends and events accurately seem more remote but the potential pay-off to doing so increases. It therefore seems opportune to reflect on how we think...

by Tom Gatehouse and Britta Matthes. This piece was first published in Tobacco Tactics. The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 goals in key areas for humanity and planet Earth. They are part of...

In this blog, first published in The Conversation, Aidan Barlow traces a resource boom and bust cycle in a peripheral Tanzanian region Rising international commodity prices can shape or reshape the fortunes of places. When large mining and oil and...

Yixian Sun, Nicki Schantz, Edoardo Eichberg, Taimiya Khalid and Michael Bloomfield report proceedings from an Earth Systems Governance (ESG) workshop on meeting SDG goal. A modified version of this post was originally published on the ESG website.     On...

In this blog, originally published in Al Jazeera, post doctoral researcher Asha Amirali argues that the current political crisis in Pakistan pales in comparison to the crisis of imagining development as modernity and growth.   Crisis is now passé in...

By Vibhor Mathur   What is ‘home’ and what is the ‘field’, Farhana Sultana (2007) asks, when researching one’s home country as a scholar based in another country. I am an Indian, doing my doctoral research in the UK, studying...