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|  Editorial |
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| Why this Website about Globalisations?
| | | The concept of « Globalisation » refers to a process which extends the principles of market economy to the whole world. But it merely takes into account the economic side of a more complex movement. The concept of « Globalisations » (plural) focuses, on the contrary, on the diversity and singularity of the different Globalisation processes on-going in all fields of human activity.
How do we define “Globalisations” ?
« Globalisations » refers to all cultural, social, economic and political processes which are “globalised”, meaning: i) circulated at world scale, despite of national, geographic, technological and linguistic barriers ; ii) offering to men from every origin, country or culture: comparable ideas, contents, services and products ; and, finally: iii) able to produce a global impact on human activities, whatever they ... | |
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| In Focus |
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| It’s too early to write Europe off
| | | 2011 has all the makings of going down in history as a disastrous year. Among other things, America and Europe risk being crushed by their own debts. They are seen as the problem children of the world economy and get lectured to by state capitalists from China, diplomats from Singapore and economists from India. So it is not strange that many observers with a feeling for the times sense that four centuries of western domination are at an end and see the sun rising in the Far East.
The American president is behaving accordingly : he thinks America must get its own economic house in order before embarking on further foreign interventions. If even the most powerful man in the world thinks that Washington has taken on too much, then one can tend to agree with historian Paul Kennedy (who wrote on the theme in his 1987 work The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers) that ... | |
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| Critical Dictionary |
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| Sustainable Development
| | | The 1980s' saw the birth of a new concept which intended to protect the environment while placing man in the center of concerns. The term "sustainable development" was explicitly used for the first time in Building a Sustainable Society, the 1981 British green party's manifesto, written by Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute. Six years later, in 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by the Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, popularized the idea in the report Our Common Future . But it wasn't until 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro that governments officially adopted sustainable development as a guiding concept for international public policies. In August 2002, ten years after the commitments made in Rio, South Africa hosted the World Summit on the Sustainable Development (WSSD). On the occasion of the biggest ... | |
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