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David Held and Kyle McNally


David Held is Master of University College, Durham, and Professor of Politics and International Relations at Durham University. He is also a Director of Polity Press and General Editor of Global Policy journal. Kyle McNally is a Researcher and PhD Candidate at Durham University. He is also the Community Editor for Global Policy journal.

David Held and Kyle McNally

The Trump Handbook For Aspiring Autocrats

David Held and Kyle McNally 22nd February 2017

In the weeks since Donald Trump took the oath of office he has set out on a dizzying path of Executive Orders, openly challenged fundamental principles underpinning the US constitution and sparked diplomatic clashes with many, including long-time US allies. Trump has already been referred to as a demagogue, authoritarian, and even a fascist. While […]

Gold Plated Populism: Trump And The End Of The Liberal Order

David Held and Kyle McNally 16th November 2016

Donald Trump’s electoral victory has startled the world. It seems to usher in an era marked by the triumph of fear and anger, brazen disregard for reason and truth, the weakening hold of liberalism, the fracturing of the postwar consensus, and the rolling back of gains made from an integrated world economy. On the horizon, […]

Path To Authoritarianism: The Collapse Of The Politics Of Accommodation

David Held and Kyle McNally 15th September 2016

Democracy is built on the values of citizenship and the equal freedom of each and every individual. The rights and duties of each citizen entail recognition of the equal standing of every member of the political community in the democratic process. Recognition of the other is built into the fabric of democratic societies even though […]

To Be, Or Not To Be: Europe Under Siege

David Held and Kyle McNally 17th December 2015

It has been a tough year for Europe. Greece, mass migration and terrorism are among the many factors which have unsettled Europe in a profound way. When the EU is seen to stutter and stumble from one crisis to another, what the EU stands for, and what the EU is all about, are questions that […]

From Shore To Shore: Regional Collapse And Human Insecurity

David Held and Kyle McNally 13th May 2015

On the 15th of April 1912 a cruise liner set sail from England to New York City. As is widely known, it collided en route with an iceberg and since has forever been immortalised; books have been written, movies made, and recovery expeditions launched. What is striking is that whilst 1,517 people died on the […]

9/11 Wars: A Reckoning

David Held and Kyle McNally 13th March 2015

Snared by geopolitical interests, post-9/11 interventions have too easily been captured by leading states. A robust law enforcement process must serve enforcers of law, not agents of geopolitical interests. 9/11 was a crime against the US and a crime against humanity. The trauma of the planes crashing into the World Trade Towers will remain an […]

Reflections On Intervention: Legality, Legitimacy And Feasibility

David Held and Kyle McNally 1st December 2014

This afterword by David Held and Kyle McNally is the final chapter of Global Policy’s e-book, ‘Lessons from Intervention in the 21st Century: Legality, Legitimacy and Feasibility’, edited by David Held and Kyle McNally. This piece was originally featured on the Global Policy website on 19 November 2014 and the complete e-book will be released […]

Europe, The European Union And European Identity

David Held and Kyle McNally 10th February 2014

The European Union can only be understood against the backdrop of the catastrophic history of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The two World Wars, and the Great Depression between them, shattered any assumptions of certainty and stability that Europeans might have once had. The rise of Nazism, fascism and Stalinism, in […]

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Spring Issues

The Spring issue of The Progressive Post is out!


Since President Trump’s inauguration, the US – hitherto the cornerstone of Western security – is destabilising the world order it helped to build. The US security umbrella is apparently closing on Europe, Ukraine finds itself less and less protected, and the traditional defender of free trade is now shutting the door to foreign goods, sending stock markets on a rollercoaster. How will the European Union respond to this dramatic landscape change? .


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