In a co-authored piece with Jonathan Glennie, we ask whether Trump’s freezing of US contributions to the WHO provides the opening for a more radical rethink of international public finance for equality and sustainability.
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“In fear of death one commits suicide,” an unenthusiastic wag is supposed to have said of the Saltsjöbaden agreement between workers and employers organisations in Sweden in 1938. Though greeted with suspicion by many on the left at the time, Saltsjöbaden proved to be a defining moment on the path to the Scandinavian welfare state. At times of national and international crisis – and the 1930s were certainly that – cooperation and compromise are rarely a bad idea.
By withholding US funds for the WHO this week, Donald Trump, in fear not of death but of what he does not understand, has initiated an act of collective suicide the like of which is mindboggling to comprehend…
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One of the delights of directing the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary in London is the sheer range and depth of discussions I get to have on a daily basis with colleagues and scholars from across the HSS disciplines. As a way of recording this, in April of this year I began a series of short interviews with colleagues about their work and the times we live in - and about what they are reading at present as well. Here I begin the series with Stephen Taylor, geographer and global health specialist…
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