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  • Agrarian Justice


    The ‘agrarian justice’ cluster in TNI brings together research and analysis on various pressing issues directly linked to the rural world, such as the impact of agrofuels, overseas aid and land policies, global land grabbing, food sovereignty, social movements and rural democratisation.

  • Alternative Regionalisms


    TNI’s Alternative Regionalisms Programme focuses on the European Union's role on the critical issues of Trade, Investment and Corporations. The European Union and European corporations have been the main proponents of a plethora of free trade and investment agreements, through a strategy called “Global Europe.” TNI’s Alternative Regionalisms Programme plays a critical bridging role between social organisations in the South and North challenging these agreements and putting forward alternatives

  • Burma Project

    The joint Transnational Institute - Burma Center Netherlands project aims to stimulate strategic thinking to address ethnic conflict in Burma and give a voice to ethnic nationality groups who have until now been ignored and isolated within the international debate on the country.

  • Drugs and Democracy


    TNI’s Drugs & Democracy programme has gained a reputation worldwide as one of the leading international drug policy research institutes and is widely recognised as a critical watchdog on UN drug control institutions and policies. 

  • Environmental Justice

    TNI has been at the forefront of challenging free market approaches to addressing climate change since its groundbreaking book, Privatising Nature in 1998. TNI hosted the Carbon Trade Watch project until 2009, which became a leading global critic of carbon trading. Through its fellows and programme work, TNI continues to advocate for effective, socially and environmentally justice responses to climate change.

  • New Politics


    The New Politics Programme researches and actively engages in attempts to create radical forms of democracy and democratic governance in response to the exhaustion of conventional political institutions.

  • Peace & Security


    TNI’s Peace and Security Programme brings together cutting-edge analyses of critical conflicts such as the war in Afghanistan and its regional implications, allies itself with a growing international grassroots movement challenging foreign military bases, and is pioneering research on the little-publicised spread of new security infrastructure in Europe and worldwide.

  • Water justice


    Water Justice project, run jointly by TNI and Corporate European Observatory is engaged in the work of building viable alternatives to water privatisation, focused on how to reform public utilities in order to make the human right to water a reality for everyone.