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US democrats are trying to take out John McCain by suggesting that, underneath all the Republican bluster, he’s really one of them…
Charity must not stop at home | New Statesman
Interview with Andrew Mitchell, UK Secretary of State for International Development, in which he argues development "is in our national interest"
French diplomat to head EU intelligence agency | EUbusiness
Patrice Bergamini to replace the UK's William Shapcott as head of the Joint Situation Centre
A stronger, wider, deeper relationship | The Hindu
David Cameron: "I know that Britain cannot rely on sentiment and shared history for a place in India's future. [...] But I believe Britain should be India's partner of choice in the years ahead."
Gordon Brown to publish financial crisis book in the autumn | guardian.co.uk
Former Prime Minister explains how his book will "offer some recommendations as to how the next stage of globalisation can be managed"
Mission to India: UK stalks sub-continent's economic tiger | Telegraph
Previewing David Cameron's upcoming visit to India, Dean Nelson examines the basis of UK-Indian relations
Britain's European Moment | Wall Street Journal
Fredrik Erixon and Razeen Sally argue that now is the time for David Cameron to promote "a free-market EU strategy."
PM wants Foreign Office to make export drive priority | FT
David Cameron: "It’s important we reorientate British foreign policy and make the foreign office more commercially minded.”
Foreign Office appoints new Permanent Under Secretary | FCO
Simon Fraser, former BIS Permanent Secretary, appointed as top FCO official
Consolidators versus Stimulators | Project Syndicate
Robert Skidelsky asks: "What do people who demand rapid 'fiscal consolidation' amid heavy unemployment need to believe about the economy to make their policy coherent?"
A Staunch and Self-Confident Ally | Wall Street Journal
David Cameron: "I hope that in the coming years we can focus on the substance, not endlessly fret about the form."
Departing U.N. official calls Ban's leadership 'deplorable' in 50-page memo | Washington Post
Inga-Britt Ahlenius, former undersecretary general of the Office of Internal Oversight Services, criticises Secretary General's tenure.
A hidden world, growing beyond control | washingtonpost.com
The conclusions of a two-year Washington Post investigation into the "unwieldy" and "secretive" nature of the US intelligence machinery.
Ashton eyes October for decision on top jobs | EUobserver
Andrew Rettman: "Ms Ashton plans to advertise the top 10 posts after EU foreign ministers sign off on the legal blueprint for the EEAS on 26 July."
Hague says allies will feel ‘electricity’ | FT
William Hague: "it is important for us to signal at the outset the importance of relations with Japan.”"
Hague vows to defend embassy network | FT
William Hague: “Helping British business is an existential mission for the Foreign Office"
Stop the blogging ambassadors | guardian.co.uk
Oliver Miles: "They are not super-journalists, or super-agony-aunts. Their job is to advise their governments on policy"
Lunch with the FT: Baroness Ashton
“This is going to be done my way”, says the EU's first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
A humane nation is a safer nation | guardian.co.uk
Tom Porteous on the practical reasons human rights should be at the heart of UK foreign policy
Summits must deliver more than big talk | The Globe and Mail
Ahead of the G8 and G20, David Cameron explains the importance of achieving "real results – by concentrating on key priorities and then driving them through relentlessly, year after year."
A seat at the table | Global Europe
Valentin Misteli explains why Norway should have a greater role in EU foreign policy-making
Once again we must ask: ‘Who governs?’ | FT
Is it the "government or financial markets", Robert Skidelsky ponders
EU ponders creation of new diplomatic breed | EUobserver
Andrew Rettman on what it means to be an "EU diplomat" and plans to establish an "EU diplomatic academy".
Get Buggins off the select committee chair | The Guardian
Andrew Tyrie: "on Wednesday, a little understood reform should transform parliament."
Europe must focus on what works | FT
Chris Patten: "The danger today is that vision [...] will be taken as the solution to the EU’s problems, and pragmatic reforms will be criticised as small-minded and inadequate"
The battle royale for the Defence Select Committee | Telegraph Blogs
James Kircup assesses the contenders in the running to be the Committee chair
France says Africa must be on Security Council | Reuters
President Sarkozy to support greater international role for Africa during France's G8 / G20 chairmanship
The heart of power | Prospect Magazine
Anthony Seldon suggests how the election offers the chance to reform and strengthen "the centre" of UK government
Rockhopper says finds oil in North Falklands | Reuters
British company claims to have found oil in the South Atlantic
Jones Previews Forthcoming National Security Strategy | The Washington Independent
Obama's NSS to be released in the "coming weeks", outlining the US's "clear and enduring" interests in: security, prosperity, values, and international order.
Kingmaker Gus plans his reshuffle | FT Notebook
Sue Cameron discusses the prospects for Whitehall's top mandarins after the UK election
The wizard behind Cameron’s little blue book | The Times
Daniel Finkelstein assesses the influence of Oliver Letwin and Thatcherism in the Conservative manifesto
Robert Rubin returns | Politico.com
Eamon Javers assesses the influence of the former US Treasury Secretary on the Obama White House
Building a Green Economy | NYT Magazine
Paul Krugman assesses the broad consensus among climate economists
New York and the Moscow Subway Bombing | Schneier on Security
Bruce Schneier explains why those fearing a Moscow-style subway attack in NYC shouldn't overreact
An upside-down view of governance | openDemocracy
Mick Moore and Sue Unsworth explain the need to "stop viewing development through the lens of OECD experience"
A race that ultimately might not be worth winning | FT
John Plender assesses the battle of global financial centres emerging from the crisis
How to End the War in Afghanistan | The New York Review of Books
David Miliband on why the "route to progress depends on recognizing the centrality of politics to issues of war and peace."
Please, not another Copenhagen | guardian.co.uk
John Sauven appeals to the UN High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing to make progress
Climate Change and Energy in Defense Doctrine: The QDR and UK Defence Green Paper | The New Security Beat
Overview of a panel discussion at the Woodrow Wilson Centre comparing US and UK approaches
Recent months have seen increasing interest in the idea that Rio+20 could be the launch pad for a new set of ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs). But what would SDGs cover, what would a process to define and then implement them look like, and what would some of the key political challenges be? This short briefing [...]
Any global framework for development which is agreed after 2015 will be a political deal between states. This paper looks at recent trends in policy and politics in emerging economies and traditional donors to assess where a consenus might lie. It suggests some principles for a post-2015 agreement which emerge from recent policy developments
Paper from ODI and UNDP, authored by Claire Melamed and Andy Sumner, summarising the evidence on the impact of the MDGs, and looking at current trends in poverty and in global governance that will affect the shape and the scope of any future agreement on global development.
Why resource scarcity will be a game changer for global justice agendas, and what aid donors, NGOs and other development opinion formers need to do about it. WWF / Oxfam report by Alex Evans.
The Rio 2012 sustainable development summit is at risk of being the latest in a long line of damp squibs on environmental multilateralism – but could still make real progress, if it focuses on greening growth and building resilience to shocks and stresses, and above all faces up to the issues of fair shares that arise in a world of limits.
How national and international governance systems need to be reconfigured to meet the challenges of food security in a world of tighter supply and demand balances and increasing volatility. Report for Oxfam’s new Grow campaign by Alex Evans. (May 2011)
Article on scarcity of resources in Pakistan and what it means for the country.
Text of speech by Alex Evans to Institute for New Economic Thinking annual conference at Bretton Woods; the YouTube video is here. (April 2011) Download Speech
Article published on China Dialogue on reasons for the new food price spike, including potential implications of the current drought in China. (February 2011) Download Article
Eight critical uncertainties for development over the next decade, and ten recommendations for what ActionAid – who commissioned this report – should do to prepare for them
Article published in World Politics Review on current American foreign policy
Report asking how organisations can prosper in what will be a turbulent period for world order
Center on International Cooperation report on what forms of multilateral cooperation are needed to manage scarcity of resources
Background paper on whether resource scarcity and climate change will cause increased violent conflict
Chatham House report on how the UK’s new coalition government should upgrade and reform the way Britain conducts foreign policy
Introductory remarks by David Steven at a Brookings Institution seminar on risk and resilience in the global system (March 2010)
Talk given by David Steven at Gresham College on risk and resilience in the UK housing market, as part of a Long Finance Roundtable meeting (March 2010)
Report by David Steven in response to the FSA’s Mortgage Market Review
Brookings Institution report by Alex Evans, Bruce Jones and David Steven on how globalisation could fail – and how it could be made more resilient. Published to coincide with the 40th anniversary World Economic Forum in Davos.
Report by Alex Evans and David Steven analysing the post-Copenhagen context on climate change, including a proposed 12 point action plan. Written for the Brookings Institution / NYU Center on International Cooperation Managing Global Insecurity programme.
World Food Programme report on the state of the science on what climate change means for hunger, plus policy recommendations. Authored by IPCC Impacts Chair Martin Parry with Mark Rosengrant, Tim Wheeler and Global Dashboard’s Alex Evans (December 2009)
Presentation by Alex Evans to a seminar organised for the UN Department of Political Affairs by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (August 2009)
Article on risk and resilience by Alex Evans and David Steven – part of a special in World Politics Review on risk and resilience in a globalized age (July 2009)
Report by Alex Evans and David Steven exploring the future international institutional requirements for managing climate change, and including three scenarios for climate institutions between now and 2030. Commissioned by the UK Department for International Development. (May 2009)
Article by Alex Evans and David Steven exploring resilience as a political agenda – part of a special edition of Renewal on the transformation of foreign policy (February 2009)
Climate and cities think piece, co-authored by David Steven and the British Council’s Peter Upton (29 January 2009)
Chatham House pamphlet by Alex Evans on how scarcity issues will shape the outlook for global food production, and the actions that policymakers need to take at the international level and in developing countries to ensure food security in the 21st century
Paper by David Steven, presented to “Reforming International Institutions – Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century,” a conference organized by the United Nations University and the British Embassy in Tokyo (Jan 2009).
Speech by Alex Evans at the Tomorrow Network (25 November 2008)
Paper by Alex Evans and David Steven on financial reform and wider multilateralism, published ahead of the G20 ‘Bretton Woods II’ Summit (November 2008).
Speech by David Steven to RUSI Conference on UK Resilience (8 October 2008)
Chapter by Alex Evans and David Steven in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office publication, ‘Engagement: public diplomacy in a globalised world’ (July 2008). Download Chapter
Draft report by Alex Evans exploring multilateral system reforms needed in order to manage resource scarcity issues more effectively. The final version will be published in early 2010 (July 2008)
Speech by Alex Evans at UK Parliament (8 July 2008)
Speech by David Steven at the UNU G8 Symposium (4 July 2008)
Speech by Alex Evans to United Nations Association UK (7 June 2008)
Speech by David Steven to the UK Defence Academy’s Advanced Research and Assessment Group seminar on Strategic Communications, Public Diplomacy and Afghanistan (4 June 2008).
Speech by David Steven to the University of Westminster Symposium on Transformational Public Diplomacy (30 April 2008).
Briefing paper by Alex Evans, published through Chatham House’s food programme (April 2008).
Speech by David Steven to RUSI Conference on Critical National Infrastructure (16 April 2008).
Paper by Alex Evans and David Steven, commissioned by Gordon Brown and presented to heads of state at the Progressive Governance Summit (April 2008).
Chapter by Alex Evans and David Steven, as part of the British Council’s Transatlantic Network 2020 book ‘Talking Trans-Atlantic’ (March 2008).
Article by Alex Evans for the Environmental Policy & Law Journal (January 2008).
Report by Alex Evans and David Steven, written for the London Accord (December 2007).
New paper by Alex Evans on climate policy after 2012 from the Center on International Cooperation (October 2007).
Chapter on the FCO from Manchester University Press’s Alternative Comprehensive Spending Review, by David Steven (September 2007).
Note by Alex Evans and David Steven about how to restructure the UK’s foreign policy system in order to manage trans-boundary global risks better (April 2007).
Talk given by David Steven at the Wilton Park conference: The Future of Public Diplomacy. Focuses on strategies to drive public diplomacy to the heart of the foreign policy armoury (March 2007).
It’s interesting to look back a few years – to when the world was worried that food was too cheap, not too expensive. In 2004, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization looked back on a long bear market for food: forty years in which real prices of agricultural commodities had fallen 2% per year, or [...]
How many people are hungry?3The good news: poverty is in retreat. The bad news: hunger isn’t. That’s the headline finding for the first Millennium Development Goal , which aims to halve the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 a day and the proportion of people living in hunger between 1990 and 2015. Great strides have been made [...]
“Freeing the entire human race from want”2The MDGs are so over Having just been rude about one World Bank report, here’s a positive review of another – the Global Monitoring Report 2011, which the Bank produces jointly with the IMF. The GMR updates progress against the Millennium Development Goals – targets that were set as the culmination of a push throughout [...]
21 years ahead of its time5A 1989 article on ‘the global teenager’ in Whole Earth Review was way ahead of its time in identifying the crux of what today’s youth bulge means for global change
Is it time for Sustainable Development Goals?5The pros and cons of a new global set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – and how they might work in practice
The one book you must read over the summer9Mark Lynas’s new book The God Species is a must-read for environmentalists
Fair shares in a world of limits: the new front line for development-Thoughts after from a joint WWF / Oxfam seminar on resource scarcity, fair shares and development.
What the ‘powershift’ narrative overlooks on US-China relations-The ‘powershift’ narrative about US-China relations obscures how much they have in common: unsustainable growth paths, shaky financial sectors, political sclerosis, massive inequality, reliance on imported resources and above all their status as the two principal obstacles to collective action on shared global risks.
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