Blog

Here you can read the latest news and views from our Fellows and associates. Many articles are also reprinted in the ISRF Bulletin, the Foundation’s in-house periodical.

The Blog and Bulletin are edited by Dr Lars Cornelissen.

Latest blog post

Trump’s tariffs are not the end of globalisation

by Adam Smith

For historian Martin Thomas, trade tariffs and foreign aid cuts should be seen within the context of a wider story around decolonisation and the end of empire.
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Latest blog post

Reversing Helplessness

by Christopher Newfield

In this monthly Director's Note, Christopher Newfield speaks to the feelings of anger that determine so much of British electoral politics.
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Latest publication

Bulletin #31: Migration Myths and Realities

This ISRF Bulletin brings together a number of papers presented at the ISRF’s 2024 conference, Migration and Democracy in a Time of Climate Crisis.
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