The title is the phrase which leaps out from the thoughtful new report from Global Dashboard’s Alex Evans and David Steven. Their effort is directed at focussing ideas about how to respond to climate change on reshaping international institutions, which has to be right.
The phrase is supposed to mean that such institutions need to manage [...]
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Signals from the future
May 13, 2009Politics of climate change
April 14, 2009Tony Giddens’ new book on climate change is attracting some interesting crits. Giddens is a good specimen of that rare species in the UK, the public intellectual. He’s steered a nicely judged path between devoting his life to the promulgation of a single idea, like Richard Dawkins, and offering views on so many things you [...]
Politics of the Future
September 23, 2008hmmm… not sure what happened to the font in that last post.
Anyway, speaking of small disappointments (see below), another appeared in the shape of Geoff Mulgan’s book Good and Bad Power.
I picked this up casually, and immediately realised two things. It is an outstandingly good book, and it has a final chapter on politicians, and [...]
