Global Dashboard - Blog covering International affairs and global risks » Nobel http://www.globaldashboard.org Global risks and how to respond to them, edited by Alex Evans and David Steven Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:30:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom: “Beyond the tragedy of the commons” http://www.globaldashboard.org/2009/10/13/nobel-laureate-elinor-ostrom-beyond-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/ http://www.globaldashboard.org/2009/10/13/nobel-laureate-elinor-ostrom-beyond-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:01:25 +0000 Michael Harvey http://www.globaldashboard.org/?p=11854 Click here to view the embedded video.

]]> http://www.globaldashboard.org/2009/10/13/nobel-laureate-elinor-ostrom-beyond-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/feed/ 0 On the web: Afghan anniversary, modern terrorism, and the Nobel race… http://www.globaldashboard.org/2009/10/07/gddigest071009/ http://www.globaldashboard.org/2009/10/07/gddigest071009/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:44:41 +0000 Michael Harvey http://www.globaldashboard.org/?p=11757 - With the eighth anniversary of war in Afghanistan, debate about the strategic direction of the conflict continues apace. Foreign Policy has an extract from Gordon M. Goldstein’s Lessons in Disaster – chronicling the key turning points of the Vietnam war and reportedly forming required reading in the current White House. Over at the New Republic, William Galston argues that General McChrystal was right to air his concerns about Afghan strategy in public and ratchet up pressure on President Obama.

- RUSI, meanwhile, assesses the issue of troop numbers on British shores, viewing the commitment to hard power through the lens of the country’s world role. In related news, the Conservatives are set to confirm that General Sir Richard Dannatt, recently retired as Chief of the General Staff, is to advise them on defence policy.

- Elsewhere, Professor John Merriman asks if the bombing of a Paris café at the end of the 19th Century spawned terrorism in its modern form. Current policy, he suggests, would do well to take better account of historical experience.

- Finally, with the slew of annual awards from the Nobel committee well under way, attention turns to possible winners of the economics prize – to be announced on Monday.  Thompson Reuters offers its annual, citation-based, predications here. Brad DeLong, meanwhile, suggests that this year’s gong should go to Mark Gertler and current Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke.

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