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Aviation Industry Flying Under the Climate Radar, Part 2
- Analysis
- March 14, 2019
In part 1 of this blog, we looked at how the aviation sector contributes to climate change overall. In this second part, we look at the three main ways the aviation industry is flying under the radar when it comes to climate change. First, the sector benefits from the publicity received by technological innovations and
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Haiti: Beyond the Headlines
- Analysis
- March 5, 2019
For a few weeks after protests reignited in Haiti’s major cities on 7 February 2019, the media carried images of angry protesters and much speculation on what this meant for the embattled country. Familiar tropes dominated the narrative: “the people” were fed up with “corruption” and inequalities perpetuated by “elites” supported by “the West,” yet
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A Bad US–China Trade Deal Might Lead to Good Things for the WTO
- Analysis
- March 2, 2019
When President Donald Trump announced that the United States was going to delay hiking tariffs on Chinese goods, investors breathed a sigh of relief. Here was a reduction in the risk of an escalation in the trade spat between the world’s two economic giants, and an increase in the likelihood of an agreement that would
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Punishment or Banishment?
- Analysis
- February 22, 2019
So-called jihadi brides are in the news, accused of supporting terrorism by having travelled to ISIS territory to marry ISIS fighters in support of the caliphate. Three Western states are implicated: the UK, the US, and Canada. UK citizen Shemima Begum left the UK four years ago, when she was 15 years old, and surfaced
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