http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/index.php On trouvera ici une sélection des articles d'information et d'analyse publiés sur le site www.mondialisations.org du GERM, qui rendent compte de la richesse et de la diversité des figures des mondialisations contemporaines, ainsi que des débats qu'elles suscitent. FR Sat, 02 May 2026 22:34:30 Sat, 02 May 2026 22:34:30 germ.mondialisations@gmail.com (GERM) germ.mondialisations@gmail.com (GERM) 5 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41893&lan=EN As in a game of chess, there are geopolitical moves through which a country can �" unwittingly �" checkmate itself. Opening a debate on German nuclear weapons would be such a move. Yet this is exactly what some Germans have recently proposed. Supporters of a nuclear-armed Germany contend that NATO’s nuclear umbrella has lost all credibility because of statements made by US President Donald Trump. Wed, 08 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41893&lan=EN http://www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/pro-eu-platform-calls-for-citizen-engagement-debate-to-respond-to-populism/?_ga=2.167318397.257585604.1533808529-1548974528.1525344510 While Eurosceptic populists team up ahead of the European elections in attempt to turn them into a referendum over the EU’s very existence, civil society is now calling on progressive forces to come together to defend the bloc. Millions of European citizens will go to the polls in less than a year amid fears far-right anti-EU political parties will increase their standing. Some of them are already in office, or were close to, in several member states including Italy, Poland, Hungary and Austria. Thu, 09 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/pro-eu-platform-calls-for-citizen-engagement-debate-to-respond-to-populism/?_ga=2.167318397.257585604.1533808529-1548974528.1525344510 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41863&lan=EN The Commission is satisfied with its Western Balkans strategy, as it has triggered a new dynamic in the region. In an interview with EURACTIV Germany, Commissioner for Enlargement, Johannes Hahn, however, pleads for realism. Johannes Hahn is European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations since November 2014. Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41863&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41861&lan=EN The President of the United States of America is increasingly violent in his criticism of the European Union. He is attacking it for its trade policy, is threatening it from the military point of view, and makes no bones about destabilising it. It is irksome to him in the international arena. He is organising the systematic withdrawal of his country from all of the multilateral agreements and organisations which the USA has inspired or supported for a long time. Tue, 31 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41861&lan=EN http://voxeurop.eu/fr/2018/la-pologne-et-l-ue-5122126 Since December 2015 Brussels has been signalling its anxiety and addressing questions and warnings to Warsaw. The issues under dispute are primarily the rule of law, but also Three years of disputes Thu, 26 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://voxeurop.eu/fr/2018/la-pologne-et-l-ue-5122126 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41857&lan=EN Reading the news following US president Donald Trump’s latest passage through Europe the message was clear: it had been a bad week for the international order.[...] To top it off, Trump gave an interview to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson in which he used the unlikely example of Montenegro to claim that NATO is not only a flimsy excuse for a military alliance, but downright dangerous to the US. �oeMontenegro is a tiny country with very strong people.” Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41857&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41852&lan=EN Global shipping is constrained by geography. Massive oil tankers and cargo ships �" carrying over 90 percent of global trade flows by weight �" converge in narrow straits. The result: The world’s key shipping lanes are often crowded. As a researcher who has focused on strategic maritime chokepoints for over 15 years, I appreciate the vital importance of these waterways �" not only economically, but also politically. Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41852&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41847&lan=EN As US President Donald Trump continues to wage war on the American-led international order, Europeans can no longer assume that their interests are synonymous with those of the US. The time has come for the European Union to redefine its interests, and to develop a new strategy for defending them. Tue, 24 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41847&lan=EN http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/16/trump-putin-summit-russia-hacking-election-nato-slippery-slope-?utm_source=phplist425&utm_medium=email&utm_content=HTML&utm_campaign=Political+Anticipation+-+A+GEAB+by+LEAP+Press+review Foreign policy often moves slowly, with ramifications only visible months or years later: when the US assisted the South Vietnam government in the 1950s, few could see the 58,000 American military dead in the Vietnam war; as the US helped overthrow the democratically elected leader of Iran in 1953, it was difficult to see the 1979 revolution that resulted in a dictatorship that would become America’s main enemy in the Middle East; and too few officials saw that invading Iraq in 2003 would blow up the entire Middle East. Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/16/trump-putin-summit-russia-hacking-election-nato-slippery-slope-?utm_source=phplist425&utm_medium=email&utm_content=HTML&utm_campaign=Political+Anticipation+-+A+GEAB+by+LEAP+Press+review http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41784&lan=EN The European Union is currently facing challenges more severe than even the debt crisis that threatened to sink the eurozone earlier this decade. North-South and East-West tensions in Europe have continued to rise since then, and are now being aggravated by growing uncertainty about the future of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government. Could these tensions finally tear the EU apart? Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41784&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41768&lan=EN For years, political leaders such as former US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta have warned of the danger of a �oecyber Pearl Harbor.” We have known for some time that potential adversaries have installed malicious software in our electricity grid. Suddenly the power could go out in large regions, causing economic disruption, havoc, and death. Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41768&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41754&lan=EN Between escalating trade disputes and the divisions at the G7’s summit this month, the breakdown of global governance has become starkly apparent. The United States can no longer be counted on to uphold, much less enforce, existing rules, and countries more broadly cannot be assumed to agree on, much less adhere to, a common set of norms. Does this mean the rules-based world order is doomed? Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41754&lan=EN http://elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/02/inenglish/1530518128_453190.html Donald Trump, who has been coming down hard on Mexico over immigration and trade ever since he reached the White House, struck a conciliatory tone on Sunday night and congratulated the winner of the Mexican presidential election, the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/02/inenglish/1530518128_453190.html http://www.theglobalist.com/united-states-protectionism-trade-wto/ When China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, it was still a developing country. More than 15 years later, its circumstances have changed and it has turned into the world’s second-largest economy. The WTO has served not to discipline China, which is what Trump (and to some extent the EU, albeit more discreetly) now seeks, but rather to give it global thrust. Trump wants to stop China overtaking the United States technologically. Underlying the trade war unleashed by the current U.S. President, there is a clash of perceptions. Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theglobalist.com/united-states-protectionism-trade-wto/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41733&lan=EN German technology companies should publicly disclose whether they are considering sales to the Turkmenistan government, Human Rights Watch said today. They should also reveal what steps they have taken to assess whether any technology sold is likely to be used by the government to block websites and carry out surveillance in violation of human rights. In February 2018, Turkmen state media outlets reported that a senior vice president at Rohde and Schwarz, a major German technology firm, had met with Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41733&lan=EN http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jun/25/tourists-go-home-refugees-welcome-why-barcelona-chose-migrants-over-visitors Early last year, around 150,000 people in Barcelona marched to demand that the Spanish government allow more refugees into the country. Shortly afterwards, �oeTourists go home, refugees welcome” started appearing on the city’s walls; soon the city was inundated with protestors marching behind the slogans �oeBarcelona is not for sale” and �oeWe will not be driven out”. What the Spanish media dubbed turismofobia overtook several European cities last summer, with protests held and measures taken in Venice, Rome, Amsterdam, Florence, Berlin, Lisbon, Palma de Mallorca and elsewhere in Europe against the invasion of visitors. Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jun/25/tourists-go-home-refugees-welcome-why-barcelona-chose-migrants-over-visitors http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41709&lan=EN �oeEverybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office,” Trump tweeted. �oeThere is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.” He subsequently told reporters, �oeI have solved that problem.” There is only one catch: what Trump claimed was untrue. The nuclear threat posed by North Korea remains undiminished. The joint statement issued by the two leaders was as brief �" just 391 words �" as it was vague. Sat, 16 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41709&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41684&lan=EN The euro may be approaching another crisis. Italy, the eurozone’s third largest economy, has chosen what can at best be described as a Euroskeptic government. This should surprise no one. The backlash in Italy is another predictable (and predicted) episode in the long saga of a poorly designed currency arrangement, in which the dominant power, Germany, impedes the necessary reforms and insists on policies that exacerbate the inherent problems, using rhetoric seemingly intended to inflame passions. Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41684&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41646&lan=EN Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán produced a video message on Saturday (2 June) supporting the efforts of Macedonia’s main opposition party to block a solution to the long-standing name dispute with Greece. He praised its refusal to bend �oeunder pressure from foreign powers”. Thousands of supporters rallied in favour of Macedonia’s nationalist opposition VMRO-DPMNE party (European People’s Party-EPP) in Skopje on Saturday and against the ongoing talks between their government and Athens to find a solution to the name dispute that blocks the country’s entry to NATO and hopes of joining the EU. Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41646&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41642&lan=EN With concerns about Italy's public debt growing, Italian populists have taken a page from US President Donald Trump's playbook and threatened to blow up the eurozone if they don't get their way. The European Union must resist the temptation to engage in a dangerous game of chicken. (...) Yet even without prescriptive theories, feigning �oefrenzy” or madness can also be a plausible, powerful, and rather contagious negotiating strategy. In the early 1970s, US President Richard Nixon adopted the tactic to convince the North Vietnamese that he had his finger on the �oenuclear button,” and that they had better negotiate a deal to end the war �" or else. Wed, 30 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41642&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41618&lan=EN Migration control is now �oehigh politics” in Europe and a priority for the EU. For example, on May 2, 2018, the European Commission proposed that the budget for the management of external borders, migration and asylum �" set at 13 billion euros for the period 2014-2020 �" be raised to 34.9 billion euros. The main goal is to stem migration flows by displacing the border as far as possible from EU territory. In this context, it may be worthwhile to analyse the initiatives of the new French president, Emmanuel Macron, who has vowed to weigh on EU decisions. What solutions does he propose and how can we assess them? Tue, 22 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41618&lan=EN http://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/05/24/border-walls-berlin-wall-donald-trump-wall/553250002/ At the end of World War II, there were seven border walls or fences in the world. By the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, there were 15, according to Elisabeth Vallet, a geography professor at the University of Quebec-Montreal. Today, as President Trump pushes his campaign promise to build a wall on the border with Mexico, there are at least 77 walls or fences around the world �" many erected after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and at the Pentagon. Thu, 24 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/05/24/border-walls-berlin-wall-donald-trump-wall/553250002/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41607&lan=EN The FIFA World Cup starting on June 14, 2018, will take place during the worst human rights crisis in Russia since the Soviet era, Human Rights Watch said today. FIFA should use its leverage with the Russian authorities to address labor rights abuses, restrictions on fundamental freedoms, and an ongoing crackdown on human rights defenders. Tue, 15 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41607&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41605&lan=EN Thu, 17 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41605&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41602&lan=EN The world is no doubt in a state of turmoil. Or should we rather acknowledge that nowadays it is no longer a temporal state of being, but rather, that we live under permanent transformation and in constant turbulence, as a result of technological development and an accelerated economy. The truth is that since the last century, history has undergone continued changes that have brought us in their unfolding to the current state of play: a scenario where the neoliberal capitalist model is itself in risk, with its basic pillars swaying while the economy is demanding new liberalization agendas to cement the model. Wed, 16 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41602&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41570&lan=EN There is something surreal about the photo-op of a smiling Rohingya refugee family heading back to conflict-torn Myanmar. In a similar case of mixed signals, Myanmar’s social welfare minister Win Myat Aye’s visit in April to the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh spoke a language of resettlement but its message was a deeply unsettling one. He announced that his country would take back only those Rohingya refugees who could furnish a proof of residency in Myanmar. In the complex game of political signals all nations play, this was as clear a warning shot as any, of trouble ahead. But one wonders how many in the Indian policy establishment heard it at all, given its increasing tone-deafness to both nuance and subtext. Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41570&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41568&lan=EN When peace shows its face, and weapons companies’ stocks plummet, we have to do more than just cheer. We have to avoid misunderstanding where peace comes from. We have to recognize the forces that want to destroy it. We have to work to make it last and expand. There’s something very twisted about the belief that the primary cause of tension between the United States and North Korea is what has reduced tension there. On a personal scale I think we could grasp this. If you yell insults and threats across the street at someone and they return the favor, and this carries on until a third party intervenes and proposes resolving the conflict, you can’t then proclaim that the person you were yelling at finally gave in and shut up because you yelled loudly enough. Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41568&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41542&lan=EN The Nicaraguan government appears to have engaged in serious abuses against protesters and arbitrarily shut down media outlets covering the recent protests, Human Rights Watch said today. Organization of American States (OAS) member countries should urge President Daniel Ortega’s government to allow the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), the main rights body in the Americas, to visit the country and investigate the allegations of abuse. Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41542&lan=EN http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/what-windrush-scandal-how-windrush-12383743 When the ship the Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury in 1948 it sparked an influx of migrants from the Caribbean and now the Government is facing an outcry over fears some of them may have been deported "in error". The eruption of the Windrush scandal, as it has become known, has sparked a fierce national debate over immigration and the status of those who arrived from the Caribbean before 1973. Tue, 01 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/what-windrush-scandal-how-windrush-12383743 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41528&lan=EN It stands for LAWS. These are the lethal autonomous weapon systems, also called killer robots. Far from being futuristic hallucinations of science fiction writers, they constitute one of the nuclei of the current arms race. The US is conducting an aggressive plan to develop different types of semi-autonomous and autonomous weaponry, conducting both basic and applied research. Among the central aspects are the improvement of perception, reasoning and intelligence of machines but also the collaborative interactions between machines and humans. As an example, one of the main programs �" conducted by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) �" is OFFSET (OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics), which aims at the integration of drone smart drones with ground robots and small infantry units to operate in urban contexts. Wed, 18 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41528&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41519&lan=EN The trade skirmish between the United States and China on steel, aluminum, and other goods is a product of US President Donald Trump’s scorn for multilateral trade arrangements and the World Trade Organization, an institution that was created to adjudicate trade disputes. Before announcing import tariffs on more than 1,300 types of Chinese-made goods worth around $60 billion per year, in early March Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum, which he justified on the basis of national security. Trump insists that a tariff on a small fraction of imported steel �" the price of which is set globally �" will suffice to address a genuine strategic threat. Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41519&lan=EN http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12036138 Australia's most crucial trade relationship is under threat �" and the impact could take a serious toll on the country's industries. Chinese ambassador to Australia Cheng Jingye has criticised the state of Canberra and Beijing's relationship, warning that Australia needs to do more to "increase mutual trust". "If there is a growing lack of mutual trust, in the long run, it may have some undesirable impact (on trade relations with China)," he told The Australian today. Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12036138 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/28/magazine/cambodia-persecuted-minority-water-refuge.html The best handyman living among the boat people in Chong Koh was named Taing Hoarith. Most days, Hoarith woke up at 5 a.m. and bought a bowl of noodle soup from a passing sampan, the same genre of wandering bodega from which his wife, Vo Thi Vioh, sold vegetables houseboat to houseboat. When she left for the day, around 6, Hoarith rolled up their floor mat and got to work. Chong Koh is one of hundreds of floating villages, comprising tens of thousands of families, on the Tonle Sap River and the lake of the same name in Cambodia. Dangers on a floating village multiply in the rainy season. When I first visited, in late July, there was always something for Hoarith to do: repairing storm damage in a wall of thatched palm, clearing the water hyacinths that collected along the upstream porch. Sometimes the house had to be towed closer to the receding shoreline so that storms or the waves of passing ships would not capsize it. Every few months, he got his ancient air compressor working and swam beneath the house, a rubber hose between his teeth, to refill the cement jars that kept the whole thing buoyant. He was mindful of pythons. Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/28/magazine/cambodia-persecuted-minority-water-refuge.html http://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/31/weary-angry-gazans-bury-dead-after-deadly-border-conflict The Gaza Strip is reeling from the bloodiest episode in years after Israeli forces killed more than a dozen people during demonstrations near the frontier. Gazans had gathered as part of a �oeGreat March of Return” protest demanding refugees and their descendants be allowed to return to their ancestral homes in Israel. Sat, 31 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/31/weary-angry-gazans-bury-dead-after-deadly-border-conflict http://www.voxeurop.eu/fr/2018/europe-des-citoyens-5121767 A new open and democratic Europe can come out from dynamic citizens and grassroots movements like Pulse of Europe, says one of its members, the author of "The European Spring" François Dupont. The European Union is a proto-state which can’t, by itself, transform into a robust and democratic European Rule of law, acceptable to all. We can neither move from a continental power adapted to the political rivalry that engulfs all the world’s large federal states, nor continue to haphazardly improve the intergovernmental EU. Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.voxeurop.eu/fr/2018/europe-des-citoyens-5121767 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41417&lan=EN With a youthful energy and stylish flair, 27-year-old Pascal Masuba speaks passionately. His outfit is carefully coordinated: modern circular glasses, flashy pants covered with images of tigers that he designed himself, a matching scarf. He claims that he was a shy child, an absurd idea to anyone who encounters him. He has unique charisma: when he talks, you’re drawn to listen. I met him at his presentation called �oeImpact Beyond Measure” �" a powerful testament to how his time as one of Sierra Leone’s Golden Kids sculpted the rest of his life. Pascal was born at the dawn of Sierra Leone’s long and brutal civil war. He grew up in its shadows. The conflict lasted for 11 long years, during which sexual abuse against women was rampant, children were recruited as soldiers, human rights violations were widespread. He discovered himself at the war’s resolution in 2002. Around this time, his father sent him to live with his aunt, Frances Fortune, who then served as Country Director for Search �" Sierra Leone. Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41417&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41330&lan=EN From Saint Augustine, perhaps the greatest Christian genius, a great inventor of phrases, comes this sentence: hope has two beloved daughters: Indignation and Courage; Indignation teaches us to reject things as they are, and Courage inspires us to change them. At this moment we first must evoke the daughter Indignation: facing what the Temer government is criminally perpetrating against the people, the indigenous, the small farmers, women, the workers and the elderly - taking away their rights and lowering millions of Brazilians from poverty into abject misery. Not even national sovereignty is safe, because the Temer government is allowing the sale of national lands to foreigners. If the government offends the people, the people has the right to invoke daughter-Indignation, not giving the government peace, but demanding in the streets and squares that it be removed, because it is already being accused of criminal corruption and is the result of a coup, and for that reason, lacks legitimacy. Daughter-Courage is seen in the movement for change, even though the confrontations could be dangerous. Courage keeps our spirits high, sustains us in the struggle and can lead us to victory. It is important to follow the advice of Don Quixote: "Do not accept defeat if the last battle has not yet been fought." Wed, 05 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41330&lan=EN http://agenceglobal.com/2017/07/04/why-it-is-critical-to-focus-on-aljazeera/ To grasp quickly the core of the Saudi Arabian and United Arab Emirates (UAE) accusations against Qatar, it is best to focus on the demand that the Aljazeera television, radio, and online network should be closed, along with half a dozen other media operations that Qatar initiated or funds. Aljazeera has become a proxy of sorts for all the things that the Saudi-Emirati camp fears will happen in the Arab region and inside their own borders �" free flow of information, public debate of ideas, peaceful contestation among different social and political ideologies, all quarters of society holding each other accountable through constitutional means, and activist citizen organizations engaging each other and their governments in a public sphere. The Saudi-Emirati demand to close Aljazeera mirrors the central modern Arab tradition since the 1950s of governments tightly controlling the flow of information and facts and the exchange of ideas in society. This has destroyed much of the human vitality and national integrity of many Arab societies, leading to the sad, violent state of our region today. It is no surprise that some Arab elites want to keep things this way; Aljazeera shows that the majority of Arab men and women want otherwise. Tue, 04 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://agenceglobal.com/2017/07/04/why-it-is-critical-to-focus-on-aljazeera/ http://iwallerstein.com/india-the-in-between-great-power/ I have the impression that, of all the �oegreat powers” in the contemporary world-system, however one defines �oegreat power,” India is the one that receives the least attention. I admit that this has been true of me, but it is true as well of the majority of geopolitical analysts. Why should this be? India after all is rapidly approaching the point where it will have the world’s largest population. It is respectably high on most measures of economic strength and improving all the time. It is a nuclear power and has one of the world’s largest armed forces. It is a member of the G20 which is the imprimatur of being a great power. However, it is not a member of the G7, which is a far more restricted group and a far more important one. Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://iwallerstein.com/india-the-in-between-great-power/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41306&lan=EN Trump’s visit was a major victory for Saudi Arabia. US-Saudi relations had reached a nadir during former US President Barack Obama’s tenure, but they have now been reset. During his visit, Trump emphasized the importance of the US-Saudi strategic relationship, offered his full support in Saudi Arabia’s rivalry with Iran for regional primacy, and signed various business and investment deals worth many billions of dollars. MBS, who is nothing if not ambitious, has set two broad goals for Saudi Arabia. The first, which he outlines in a program called Vision 2030, is to diversify the Saudi economy, by reducing its heavy dependence on oil revenues, and creating good jobs outside of the oil sector. MBS is convinced that Saudi Arabia’s vast oil reserves will be far less valuable in the future, owing to the rise of alternative fuels and renewable-energy technologies. Sat, 24 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41306&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41276&lan=EN On June 4, the New York Times published a note entitled "Why they kill in Latin America". According to journalists Alejandra Sánchez Insunza and José Luis Pardo Vieras, Latin America occupies the first place in the world for the three kinds of homicides listed by the United Nations: criminal, interpersonal and socio-political. The Inter-American Development Bank --IDB -- points out that 50% of the crimes in Latin American cities are committed in barely 1.6% of their streets. The greater part of assassinations are concentrated in 7 of the 20 countries of the region: Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico, to a great extent linked to drug-trafficking. Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41276&lan=EN http://en.qantara.de/content/qatars-political-isolation-the-latest-scapegoat Two main factors are behind these developments. On the one hand, there have been tensions between Qatar and the UAE since 2011, when Qatar pledged its support for the Muslim Brotherhood, which at the time was trying to gain power throughout the region by means of elections in various countries. The leadership both in the UAE and Saudi Arabia viewed the Brotherhood as an existential threat to their own rule. In addition, they also feared a rapprochement of nations supporting the Brotherhood (notably Egypt) with Iran. After the fall of Mohammed Morsi in July 2013, which the two Gulf States witnessed with relief, Qatar came under increasing pressure to discontinue its material, financial and media support for Islamist groups. When it did not sufficiently bow to the demands of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the situation culminated in a diplomatic crisis in 2014, leading the two states and the small Kingdom of Bahrain to withdraw their ambassadors from Qatar. Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/qatars-political-isolation-the-latest-scapegoat http://agenceglobal.com/2017/06/06/the-real-threat-that-saudi-arabia-sees-in-qatar/ Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt in particular have employed draconian tactics to muzzle any independent media across the Arab world, and Qatar in this respect is a prime target for their ire. They cannot accept that independent thinkers, reporters, and analysts express their thoughts in public in a manner that deviates from the Saudi-defined policy of maintaining the autocratic status quo that has defined (and ravaged) the Arab region during the past half century or so. Tue, 06 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://agenceglobal.com/2017/06/06/the-real-threat-that-saudi-arabia-sees-in-qatar/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41258&lan=EN (...) the cultural discourse of 1913 totally fails to mention the possibility of the catastrophe that will soon shake both Europe and the world that depended on it: the First World War. 17 million people, military, and civilians, will die, amongst them many Africans whose existence Europe is unaware of or simply chooses to ignore. The second absence has to do with the fact that everything that happens outside Europe, or even outside Northern and Central Europe, does not exist, that is, it is constructed as nonexistent by hegemonic thinking. (...) This becomes possible because, after the European colonial expansion in the late 15th century, an abyssal line, as extreme as it was invisible, was drawn between social relationships in the world of European metropolises and social relationships in the world of extra-European colonies. According to this line, which is a geopolitical, ideological, and epistemological divide, the only relevant social, political, cultural, and ethical reality, the reality that counts when principles, values, and criteria of sociability are defined, happens on this side of the line, i.e., in metropolitan societies. (...) Contrary to appearances, the abyssal line has not been erased with the end of territorial colonialism. It is still there today, just like colonialism is, albeit in new forms. It is this abyssal line that justifies racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, the destruction of countries like Iraq, Libya, or Syria, the Palestinian �oefinal solution” perpetrated by victims turned into aggressors, the massive incarceration of young Black people in the United States, the inhuman treatment of refugees. How different and yet how similar today’s absences and those of 1913. Tue, 06 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41258&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41215&lan=EN Thu, 06 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41215&lan=EN http://iwallerstein.com/global-left-vs-global-right-from-1945-to-today/ So, where are we? The economic conservatives first won out and then lost strength. The succeeding socio-cultural conservatives first won out and then lost strength. Yet the Global Left seems nonetheless to flounder. This is because they have not yet been willing to accept that the struggle between the Global Left and the Global Right is a class struggle and that this should be made explicit. In the ongoing structural crisis of the modern world-system, which began in the 1970s and will probably last another 20-40 years, the issue is not the reform of capitalism, but its successor system. If the Global Left is to win that battle, it must solidly ally the anti-austerity forces with the multicultural forces. Only recognizing that both groups represent the same bottom 80% of the world’s population makes it likely that they can win out. They need to struggle against the top 1% and seek to attract the other 19% to their side. That is exactly what one means by a class struggle. Mon, 15 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://iwallerstein.com/global-left-vs-global-right-from-1945-to-today/ http://agenceglobal.com/2017/05/10/the-5-ghosts-that-haunt-the-fractured-arab-region/ Many people spend much time and energy these days analyzing the causes of the turbulent, often violent, and occasionally disintegrating conditions of many countries across the Arab region. Years ago and even occasionally today, Western and Arab scholars or analysts alike usually singled out one or two reasons for the problems of the Middle East and its Arab core societies. Today, we know better than to blame one or two things for our difficult condition. Every Arab country is different, yet some broad trends have impacted the entire region. Here are five �oeghosts” of widespread phenomena that still haunt us, as they also help us understand the messy state of the Arab region today. Wed, 10 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://agenceglobal.com/2017/05/10/the-5-ghosts-that-haunt-the-fractured-arab-region/ http://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/opinion/america-from-exceptionalism-to-nihilism.html?_r=1 �oeThe world is going America’s way,” Fareed Zakaria wrote in 2008. �oeCountries are becoming more open, market friendly and democratic.” Since the fall of communism, American leaders in politics, business and journalism have repeatedly broadcast the conceit that we live, or will soon live, in the best of all possible worlds. Not even 9/11, the bloody stalemates in Iraq and Afghanistan or the worst economic crisis since the Depression challenged faith in a benignly Americanized world. Barack Obama declared last year that �oeif you had to choose any time in the course of human history to be alive, you’d choose this one. Right here in America, right now.” What finally shattered such Panglossian notions was the demagogue on the campaign trail last year who ranted, credibly to many, about �oeAmerican carnage.” It took the rise of Donald J. Trump in a harshly polarized country to shatter the belief that, as the critic Philip Rahv wrote in the early 1950s, the United States �oeis in its very nature immune to tragic social conflicts and collisions.” Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/opinion/america-from-exceptionalism-to-nihilism.html?_r=1 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41097&lan=EN Like Euthyphro, Trump does not just think that he knows what he knows, and that what he knows is sufficient for sound decision-making; he is absolutely sure of it. This self-assuredness suggests that he has rarely, if ever, stopped to consider what he does not know. He seems to be incapable of engaging in the kind of introspective reflection that would reveal gaps in his own understanding �" the first step toward expanding one’s knowledge of an issue. Trump’s epistemological arrogance is something that we tolerate, and strive to correct, in children. It is not a trait one expects to find in educated, mature adults �" and certainly not in the person who holds the highest office in the most powerful country in the world. As Trump’s chaotic presidency continues to unfold, one thing that we can know for sure is that any policy he introduces, and any action he takes, will occur against a backdrop of deep ignorance, and even meta-ignorance. Sadly, nothing could be more dangerous for the United States, other countries, or the planet. Wed, 12 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41097&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41067&lan=EN The world was surprised by the travel ban that President Trump proclaimed for inhabitants or citizens of seven mostly Islamic countries. This is, however, only the first step of a much larger strategy, according to Reza Aslan, the famous Iranian-American author and TV-maker. He hopes that by 2018, the current protests will bring about a renewed Democratic party, needed to begin an impeachment procedure. Thu, 09 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41067&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41035&lan=EN �oeAmerica first,” thumps Donald Trump. �oeBritain first,” say the advocates of Brexit. �oeFrance first,” crows Marine Le Pen and her National Front. �oeRussia first,” proclaims Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin. With so much emphasis on national sovereignty nowadays, globalization appears doomed. It’s not. The struggle playing out today is not one of globalism versus anti-globalism. Rather, the world is poised between two models of integration: one is multilateral and internationalist; the other is bilateral and imperialist. Throughout the modern age, the world has seesawed between them. Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41035&lan=EN http://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-geopolitics-of-2017-in-4-maps/ The saying goes that a picture is worth a thousand words. Maps are worth many more. Our perspective on the world is rooted in an objective and unbiased approach to examining geography and power. Maps like these are foundational components for building that perspective. These four maps are especially helpful in thinking about the geopolitical forces that will shape the world in the year ahead. Mon, 23 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-geopolitics-of-2017-in-4-maps/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41006&lan=EN That was the case at this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland. Beyond a mention of the Paris climate agreement by Chinese President Xi Jinping, topics like climate change and sustainable development didn’t even make it to the main stage. Instead, they were relegated to side meetings that rarely seemed to intersect with current political and economic events. The Year Ahead 2017 Cover Image Allowing environmental issues to fall by the wayside at this time of geopolitical and social instability is a mistake, and not just because this happens to be a critical moment in the fight to manage climate change. Environmental degradation and natural-resource insecurity are undermining our ability to tackle some of the biggest global issues we face. Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=41006&lan=EN http://www.dw.com/en/the-korean-divide/av-37753950 It is 4 kilometers wide, 250 kilometers long and divides Korea in two: the demilitarized zone, also referred to as the DMZ. Never before has a team of non-military observers been allowed to film inside the DMZ. Explore Korea’s north-south divide. Tue, 28 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dw.com/en/the-korean-divide/av-37753950 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40942&lan=EN As Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, once said, �oeGlobalisation is another term for U.S. domination.” This phase ran from 1982 until the financial crisis of 2008, when the collapse of American banks, followed by contagion in Europe, forced the system to question the Washington Consensus as an undisputable theory. Doubts were also being voiced loudly through the growing mobilisation of civil society /the World Social Forum, for example, had been created in 1981) and by the offensive of many economists who had previously remained in silence. The latter began insisting that macroeconomics �" the preferred instrument of globalisation �" looked only at the big figures. If microeconomics was used instead, they argued, it would become clear that there was very unequal distribution of growth (not to be confused with development) and that delocalisation and other measures which ignored the social impact of globalisation, were having disastrous consequences. Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40942&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40910&lan=EN Less populated and less hegemonic than Saudi Arabia, more discreet than Qatar, the United Arab Emirates has been not less active, especially since 2011, to fight political Islam in all its forms, with the Muslim Brotherhood as its main target. The federation is therefore in frontal opposition with Qatar and Saudi Arabia. [...] Abu Dhabi’s foreign policy has two principal goals: to protect itself against Iran and to combat political Islam in all its forms, with the Muslim Brotherhood as its main target. While the fear of Iran is shared on the whole by the other Gulf monarchies, the same is not true of political Islam, an area in which the Emirates are completely at odds with Qatar and also, though only recently, with Saudi Arabia. Thu, 16 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40910&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40877&lan=EN In justifying his policy, Trump said that he would �oenever forget the lessons of 9/11.” But that is exactly what he seems to have done. The 9/11 hijackers came from Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, all countries unaffected by the new rules. In contrast, a study by Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, concludes that in the 40 years up to the end of 2015, no one has been killed in the US in terrorist attacks by foreigners from any of the seven countries singled out in Trump’s executive order. Iranians, many of whom are legally resident in the US, are especially aggrieved. According to Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, the US itself has produced more Islamic State (ISIS) fighters than Iran �" not surprising, given that ISIS is a Sunni organization, and regards Shia, who comprise at least 90% of Iran’s people, as apostates who can justifiably be killed. Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40877&lan=EN http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2016/allday131216.html Arguably, no war has been more mediated by misunderstanding than the conflict currently taking place in Syria. This article will seek to correct some of the major fallacies in circulation, illuminate how dissenting voices are forced out of the mainstream debate through smears and intimidation, and unmask the ostensibly neutral stances of a number of prominent voices on the conflict. Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2016/allday131216.html http://www.leftvoice.org/10-Points-to-Understand-the-Gasolinazo-Protests-in-Mexico According to several analysts, the decision to increase gas prices is the worst mistake that Peña Nieto’s discredited government has made so far. Since the first day of this year, gas prices have increased by 14.4% for Magna gas, 20.1% for Premium and 16.5% for diesel. The current inflated prices will only increase after until February 3. This is yet another step in ending state control in the oil industry, which began with the nationalization of oil in 1938. Since then, steps have been taken to privatize the industry. The Mexican government has long subsidized gas prices to control against fluctuations. In order to attract privatize investors to Mexican oil, the Peña Nieto administration will allow gas prices to fluctuate according to the market by the end of the year. In this article we lay out some key elements to understanding the seemingly endless crisis of the Mexican administration. Mon, 09 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.leftvoice.org/10-Points-to-Understand-the-Gasolinazo-Protests-in-Mexico http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40855&lan=EN Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, with the end of ideologies, politics has lost vision and long-range strategy, to become a basically administrative fact, with a substantive increase in corruption. Citizens, and especially young people, do not feel part of the system. From being participatory mechanisms, political parties have become self-referential. And to political disaffection, we should add the discovery that the neo-liberal economic model of the free market has in no way led to the growth announced for all, but has instead increased to an unprecedented extent the gap between the rich (increasingly fewer) and the poor (increasingly more numerous). (...) But what will this new world order be, based on nationalism, fear and greed? What is certain is that a style of governing that belies the data of reality foments tension and hatred as political tools, fights against culture, intellectuals, the press, women, minorities, homosexuals and neighbours, and will have a profoundly negative impact on politics and society, ethics and democracy, in the world. Tue, 24 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40855&lan=EN http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/jan/14/aid-in-reverse-how-poor-countries-develop-rich-countries The US-based Global Financial Integrity (GFI) and the Centre for Applied Research at the Norwegian School of Economics recently published some fascinating data. They tallied up all of the financial resources that get transferred between rich countries and poor countries each year: not just aid, foreign investment and trade flows (as previous studies have done) but also non-financial transfers such as debt cancellation, unrequited transfers like workers’ remittances, and unrecorded capital flight (more of this later). What they discovered is that the flow of money from rich countries to poor countries pales in comparison to the flow that runs in the other direction. Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/jan/14/aid-in-reverse-how-poor-countries-develop-rich-countries http://agenceglobal.com/2017/01/15/china-and-the-united-states-partners/ When, in 1945, the United States had definitively defeated its great rival Germany, it was set to assume the role of hegemonic power in the world-system. The only obstacle was the military power of the Soviet Union. The way the United States dealt with this obstacle was to offer the Soviet Union the status of junior partner in the world-system. We refer to this tacit accord as the Yalta arrangements. Both sides denied that there was any deal, and both sides fully implemented it. The United States dreams of reproducing a Yalta-like arrangement with China. China scoffs at this idea. It considers the days of U.S. hegemony as over, believing that the United States no longer has the economic strength to underpin such a status. It also believes that internal disunity renders the United States impotent in the geopolitical arena. On the contrary, China seeks to impose a Yalta-like arrangement in which the United States would be the junior partner. The closest analogy would be the post-1945 relationship of Great Britain with the United States. Sun, 15 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://agenceglobal.com/2017/01/15/china-and-the-united-states-partners/ http://en.qantara.de/content/jihadism-debate-beyond-the-mediterranean Our image of Arab countries tends to be dominated by terror and violence. Yet many people across the region are working hard to defend their freedoms and fight for a decent life �" under difficult circumstances. Security agency failures, the dangers posed by refugees and migrants �" and the call for tougher laws in the fight against terror. Just as it was following the attacks in July 2016 and November 2015 in Paris, where I live, public debate in Germany has also been dominated by these issues in the wake of the terrible Berlin Christmas market attack. Yet as far as efforts to address jihadism are concerned, this debate merely scratches the surface. One aspect that politicians and the media rarely touch on is the fact that the confrontation with jihadism will continue for decades. Mon, 09 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/jihadism-debate-beyond-the-mediterranean http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40798&lan=EN In his remarkable book, How Russia Sees the West: An Anthology of Russian Thought, from Karamzine to Putin, published last November, Michel Niqueux defined the tenets of the dominant Russian ideology, inspired by Eurasian intellectuals and turned into policies by Putin: Anti-West, moral and cultural conservatism, vertical power structure, assertion of military power, definition of a multipolar world as opposed to an unipolar power one headed by the USA, prize of Eurasian unity (Russia, Belorussia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia) after Ukraine’s defection. Although accurate, this description misses the key element of the ideology that has dominated Russia since 2000: a populism founded on a nihilistic view of the truth, state propaganda and a kleptocratic approach to power. Thu, 05 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40798&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40796&lan=EN The choice made by Mexican governments to sign and continue the Free Trade Agreement with the US and Canada, has not only been harmful for Mexico, but has distanced it from Latin America. It was an ideological option, founded on the false belief that being associated with economic powers would drive the Mexican economy to the levels of the more developed economies, pulling it out of poverty, inequality, misery and social exclusion. The balance of the 20 years of this Treaty is evident. Mexico has been the great loser. Entering the ring as a lightweight in the face of a heavyweight such as the US, Mexico had everything to lose and in fact that is what happened. Even when their economy grew, Mexico has been one of the few countries of the continent that has not bettered the social situation of its people in this century. Moreover, the choice of making her economy dependent on a single great market has been suicidal. Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40796&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40785&lan=EN King Salman, Abdallah’s successor, had only just been crowned on January 23, 2015, when, discarding a foreign policy that had until then been quite cautious, not to say conservative, he determined to show the world that the kingdom was prepared to defend its vital interests. All the more so as the USA no longer seemed a dependable ally judging by their deal with Teheran on the nuclear issue or their passivity in Syria. And so, in March 2015, Riyadh led a coalition of some ten countries on a military expedition aimed at restoring the �oelegitimate” government in Sanaa, ousted from power by the Houthi rebels and their allies, accused of being manipulated by Teheran. However, the operation dubbed �oeDecisive Storm” was anything but �oedecisive” and shed a harsh light on the limitations of Saudi military (and political) strength. Thu, 05 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40785&lan=EN http://iwallerstein.com/the-world-in-the-era-of-trump-what-may-we-expect/ Let me start by saying that I think 95% of the policies Donald Trump will pursue in his first year or so in office will be absolutely terrible, worse than we anticipated. This can be seen already in the appointments to major office that he has announced. At the same time, he will probably run into major trouble. This contradictory result is the consequence of his political style. If we look back at how he has won the presidency of the United States, he did it against all odds with a certain deliberate rhetorical technique. On the one hand he has constantly made statements that responded to major fears of U.S. citizens by using coded language that the recipients interpreted as support for policies that they thought would alleviate their multiple pains. He did this most often either by brief twitters or in tightly-controlled public rallies. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://iwallerstein.com/the-world-in-the-era-of-trump-what-may-we-expect/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40760&lan=EN The most novel geopolitical fact of globalization is that the United States, after the attacks, has become an Asian power. The wars against Afghanistan and Iraq in the Middle East have allowed them an unprecedented geopolitical projection in a part of the world where they were influential (during the Cold War), but never territorially stable. The installation of military bases stretching from the heart of Central Asia to the Horn of Africa and the quest for control of the principal energy sources have given them the role of an Asian power. From the beginnings of the XX century, they had become a hemispheric power; after the Second World War, they became an Atlantic power; with the Cold War they became a Pacific power; with the post-Cold War their influence in Africa grew and now, with their expansion in Asia, Washington maintains the goal of the �oeimperial dream”. Wed, 21 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40760&lan=EN http://geopoliticalfutures.com/trumps-dilemma/ Donald Trump’s presidency will have geopolitical consequences. Most of the world wants to know what he will do. But that depends on what he can do. That, in turn, will be determined by the political dynamics within the United States as well as by counteractions of other nations. This is a case where politics rises to the level of geopolitics. Trump’s actions will be conditioned by the actions of other players, particularly in Congress. Trump, after all, will only be the president and his unilateral powers will be limited. For most of the things he wants to do, he needs Congress to go along. Therefore, the American stance toward the world will depend, for the moment, less on what Trump wishes than what Congress decides to do. Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://geopoliticalfutures.com/trumps-dilemma/ http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/25628/the-left-and-the-syria-debate The overwhelming majority of the Syrian rebel landscape represents a variety of Islamist�"both Salafist and Brotherhood�"politics, with a sprinkle of the non-Islamist gangs of the Free Syrian Army. None of these groups have a progressive agenda in terms social or economic issues. They are only united by their anti-regime position, not by their democratic, progressive, or leftist goals or practices. The various established Islamist political groups in the Arab world do not include progressive or leftist elements. This is not to say that Islamiste do not have the right to rebel or to call for the overthrow of oppressive regimes. But that is different than claiming such groups�"in opposition or in power�"represent leftist principles, interests, or identities. Leftists of all people should welcome open debate about Syria and should reject the intimidation tactics of Western supporters and cheerleaders for the Syrian rebels. Leftists more than others should engage in media deconstruction and in pointing out the impact of financial ownership of media in the West and in the Arab world. Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/25628/the-left-and-the-syria-debate http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40703&lan=EN As Trump’s inauguration draws near, Americans must confront three big questions. One, in a sense, is a take on a question that Trump raised about Clinton during the campaign: what happens if the FBI finds evidence of criminal conduct by the president? Or, perhaps more likely in Trump’s case, what happens if the president tries to shut down FBI investigations into his commercial activities involving Russia, or into the actions of cronies like Manafort? The second question, which the US Senate should ask before confirming Tillerson as Secretary of State, concerns the extent of his and ExxonMobil’s financial interests in Russia. The Senate should also probe how closely Tillerson has cooperated with Igor Sechin, the chairman of Rosneft and a notorious ex-KGB operative, particularly in renationalizing much of the Russian oil industry and placing it under Sechin’s personal control. (Similar questions should be asked about Flynn, though, because the National Security Adviser doesn’t need to be confirmed by the Senate, little can be done about his appointment.) Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40703&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40683&lan=EN Now that Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States, the end of what was heretofore termed the �oeWest” has become all but certain. That term described a transatlantic world that emerged from the twentieth century’s two world wars, redefined the international order during the four-decade Cold War, and dominated the globe �" until now. Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40683&lan=EN http://geopoliticalfutures.com/nationalism-internationalism-and-new-politics/ The world is experiencing a shift from the old liberal-conservative model to an internationalist-nationalist model. Nationalist challenges against the internationalist model have moved from the margins of the political system to the center, winning victories in the United States and the United Kingdom, and rising in strength in other countries. The rise of nationalism is the decisive character of the day. Internationalism is on the defensive. Whatever the ultimate outcome, this struggle will politically define at least the next decade. The world that emerged from World War II was built on certain assumptions. First, that the origins of the war rested in the rise of nationalism in Germany and the inability of other countries to form an effective and proactive alliance to contain German and destroy the Nazi regime. Second, the economic crisis that preceded World War II was rooted in the collapse of international trade due to protectionism. In the U.S., this was represented by the Smoot-Hawley tariffs. Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://geopoliticalfutures.com/nationalism-internationalism-and-new-politics/ http://geopoliticalfutures.com/south-america-a-different-view-of-internationalism/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://geopoliticalfutures.com/south-america-a-different-view-of-internationalism/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40591&lan=EN Mon, 07 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40591&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40579&lan=EN At the end of the cold war, the Western block, commanded by the US, announced that history was coming to an end. There would be events, but nothing outside the capitalist market economy and liberal democracy. This was the end of history. Neoliberal globalization was charged with making these economic and political schemes universal. The Pax Americana was imposed. But the shift from a bipolar world to a unipolar one under US imperial hegemony, did not bring peace or economic development. On the contrary, the hotspots of war have multiplied and the economic recession has turned global. Wed, 16 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40579&lan=EN http://en.qantara.de/content/liberalism-in-the-arab-world-merely-treading-water Public opinion across the Islamic world is unanimous: since the 1990s, the Arabs have been experiencing what is possibly the worst crisis in their history, a crisis you could liken to the Biblical trials of Job. Top of the list is Iraq: between 1990 and 2015, it fell victim to US occupation, degenerating into a failed state over which violent groups are now fighting. [...] But this was not the only Arab crisis between 1990 and 2015. The southern part of Sudan also seceded from the North; to this day, civil war still rages in parts of the country. Somalia also collapsed and has been disintegrating as a nation state ever since. For its part, Libya is now nothing but a minefield of warring tribes from whose coast migrants set sail on overcrowded boats in an attempt to escape this hell. [...] Fri, 04 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/liberalism-in-the-arab-world-merely-treading-water http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40488&lan=EN �oeThe main element of any US policy towards the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment,” the US diplomat George Kennan wrote in 1947 in a Foreign Affairs article, famously signed �oeX.” Replace �oeSoviet Union” with �oeRussia,” and Kennan’s �oecontainment policy” makes perfect sense today. It is almost as if, in nearly 70 years, nothing has changed, even as everything has. Of course, the Soviet Union has been, one might say, permanently contained. But Russia is showing the same �oeexpansive tendencies” of which Kennan warned. Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=40488&lan=EN http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/12/hong-kong-pro-democracy-oath-snub-china A new generation of pro-democracy politicians thumbed its nose at China’s authoritarian leaders, with a succession of lawmakers openly defying Beijing during an action-packed swearing-in ceremony for Hong Kong’s parliament. Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/12/hong-kong-pro-democracy-oath-snub-china http://en.qantara.de/content/russia-and-the-syrian-conflict-drop-the-dictator?nopaging=1 For there to be any hope of an end to the war in Syria, Moscow has to realise that an orderly handover of power in Damascus is in its own interest, Regardless of how one evaluates Russia's role in Syria �" to mercilessly and effectively bombard civilians so as to save an unscrupulous mass murderer, to take crude, bruising military action with a view to boxing through its regional interests, or to use clever tactics to position itself as an indispensable world power �" Vladimir Putin has certainly made sure of one thing: the road to peace in Syria leads through Moscow. Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/russia-and-the-syrian-conflict-drop-the-dictator?nopaging=1 http://www.voxeurop.eu/es/content/article/5092123-indignados-balcanicos Today it is impossible to travel in the Balkans and not run into Balkan indignados, the region’s new reality. [...] These are the Balkans inhabited by the Besas, Milicas, Vanyas and those even worse off, who have few future prospects unless they enter the circle of the �oeuntouchables”, or else emigrate. Mon, 04 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.voxeurop.eu/es/content/article/5092123-indignados-balcanicos http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39959&lan=EN From changes in government in Argentina and Brazil to mid-course policy corrections in Chile, Latin American politics appears to be undergoing a rightward shift. But rather than being �oepulled” by the attractiveness of the economic policies that the right is advocating, this complex phenomenon is predominantly a reflection of the �oepush” implied by anemic growth and the disappointing provision of public goods, especially social services. Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39959&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39940&lan=EN France’s initiative to hold an international conference to re-launch direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians, aimed at the ever elusive �oetwo-state solution,” is the child of a resilient fantasy. But after decades of failed negotiations, it’s time to start thinking like adults. Neither Israeli nor Palestinian society is primed for compromise. On the contrary, in Israel, surging nationalism has become a major obstacle to any negotiation. With Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu catering to ultra-nationalist elements, there is no possibility that he will produce the kinds of peace proposals pursued by his predecessors, Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert. As for Palestine, its fragmented polity undermines any possibility of effective negotiation. Mon, 06 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39940&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39920&lan=EN Thu, 26 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39920&lan=EN http://www.voxeurop.eu/es/content/article/5084194-se-puede-hablar-realmente-de-paises-corruptos Prime Minister Cameron shocked everyone by referring to Afghanistan and Nigeria as possibly some of the most corrupt countries of the world just a few days before this week’s anti-corruption summit in London. Many saw his statement as yet another instance of Western hypocrisy. Given London is famously a playground for the corrupt and Mr. Cameron’s family itself profited from stashing money overseas, it does seem odd that he is the one to point the finger. But is it justified to be politically correct about corruption? As a chair of Berlin’s Hertie School of Governance, which runs the EU’s largest policy research program on corruption and and author of the Dutch EU Presidency’s report on public integrity and trust in EU, I'm weighing up the evidence. Mon, 16 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.voxeurop.eu/es/content/article/5084194-se-puede-hablar-realmente-de-paises-corruptos http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39886&lan=EN Wed, 25 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39886&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39882&lan=EN The �oeBrexiteers” �" those who want Britain to leave the European Union �" argue that their goal would be virtually cost-free and have no effect on the United Kingdom’s global trade. They are wrong. On June 23, when voters in Britain cast their ballots in the referendum on the question, they need to consider what is actually involved in leaving the EU �" and how the free-trade benefits they now enjoy (and take for granted) could be maintained after Brexit. Wed, 25 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39882&lan=EN http://www.voxeurop.eu/fr/content/article/5086915-un-avertissement-pour-toute-l-europe It was a heartbeat finish. And in the end, a handful of absentee ballots gave victory to the independent candidate Alexander Van der Bellen over the far-right's Norbert Hofer. The country is more polarized than ever and the decades-lasting system of big established parties might be over. Mon, 23 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.voxeurop.eu/fr/content/article/5086915-un-avertissement-pour-toute-l-europe http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39843&lan=EN Following the election of the city's new mayor Ada Colau in June 2015, Barcelona has reinvented itself amid a hive of social, cultural and political activism. Ann Marie Utratel explains how the city's transformation resonates with inspired efforts to realign collaborative economies with the commons paradigm. Fri, 13 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39843&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39842&lan=EN All too often in politics, the choice is between the very bad and the even worse. For the residents of Central and Eastern Europe, the June referendum in the United Kingdom over whether Britain should exit the European Union is just such a case. Thu, 19 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39842&lan=EN http://en.qantara.de/content/sadiq-khans-london-democracy-wins-out Pakistani by origin, Muslim by faith and newly elected Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan is the man of the hour in the United Kingdom, if not in Europe. As Bernard-Henri Levy argues, his victory sends a highly positive signal Wed, 18 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/sadiq-khans-london-democracy-wins-out http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39809&lan=EN Amidst general indifference, uninterrupted string of victories of the extreme right-wing in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria Hungary, Italy and Greece, has being going on in the last years. The congress of AfD was infused, on the contrary, with the awareness that the tide of xenophobia, nationalism and populism is taking over Europe. And the language of the Congress was unthinkable a few years ago. Mon, 09 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39809&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39803&lan=EN Divorce is not an option these days. But nor is the kind of marriage that the Islam scholar Tariq Ramadan advocates. Ramadan, a grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, is a Swiss citizen and a resident of the United Kingdom who argues that Islamic ethics and values should be injected into the European system. Europe would then not just tolerate Islam, but actually embrace it as an integral part of itself. Thu, 05 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39803&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39800&lan=EN New charges concerning several leading Russian officials reveal the greatest threat to the Kremlin's hold on power �" elite corruption. Will Putinism end not with a bang but a warrant? Hot on the heels of the Panama Papers’ revelations about multi-billion dollar slush funds, a Spanish court's decision to issue arrest orders for 12 Russian citizens, including senior law enforcement officials and a Duma deputy, demonstrates the new pressures faced by Russia’s elite, otherwise used to juggling the freedom to steal at home with the freedom to spend and save abroad. Tue, 10 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39800&lan=EN http://www.peacebuilding.no/Regions/Africa/Publications/Stability-and-vulnerability-in-the-Sahel-the-regional-roles-and-internal-dynamics-of-Chad-and-Niger Chad and Niger are among the world’s least developed countries �" and deprivation and institutional weakness are potential drivers of instability. So it is important that external partners do not allow security imperatives to obscure the long-term necessity of a sustained focus on poverty reduction and good governance. Tue, 19 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.peacebuilding.no/Regions/Africa/Publications/Stability-and-vulnerability-in-the-Sahel-the-regional-roles-and-internal-dynamics-of-Chad-and-Niger http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39777&lan=EN The new Argentinian government will probably concentrate more on the economic, environmental and security challenges of the South Atlantic, than stressing the Malvinas issue as its main foreign policy priority. The central geopolitical issue for all Southern Cone countries is the singular relevance of the South Atlantic, because of increasing global demand for strategic natural resources during the last decade and the resurgence of South Atlantic routes as an important means of international communications and trade. The preoccupation that the South Atlantic might therefore become a zone of power projection by extra-regional international actors is shared not only by all Southern Cone countries but also by their African counterparts. Thu, 05 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39777&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39770&lan=EN Much of the world’s attention is understandably focused on developments in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. These regions represent the vast majority of global population and wealth, [...] But an unintended consequence of this focus is that many governments, corporations, and people are missing much of what is going on in Latin America. And much of what is going on in Latin America right now happens to be good. Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39770&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39698&lan=EN Though much has been written about how a world on the move is changing national politics, there has been little consideration of its geopolitical effects. But the mass movement of people is already creating three types of migration superpowers: new colonialists, integrators, and go-betweens. Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39698&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39697&lan=EN Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39697&lan=EN http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/life-after-nuclear-security-summits-are-we-safe A series of Nuclear Security Summits since President Barack Obama took office in 2009 have raised global awareness and tightened security of the world’s stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and plutonium. Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/life-after-nuclear-security-summits-are-we-safe http://en.qantara.de/content/palmyra-post-is-a-pawn-in-assads-game I'm relieved that the jihadists have been pushed out. They did terrible damage to the World Heritage site in Palmyra. But I'm also not relieved. The memories of what Bashar al-Assad did with the Palmyra ruins are still very much alive. When his army occupied Palmyra Castle during the revolution from 2012 to 2015, he did a great deal of damage. He launched grenades and rockets onto the World Heritage site and destroyed the pillars and walls. His troops plundered graves, looted artefacts and sold them illegally. As long as Bashar al-Assad is in Palmyra, I'm afraid that he could cause further damage and that his people will plunder again. Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/palmyra-post-is-a-pawn-in-assads-game http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39601&lan=EN After the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris that left 130 dead, I wrote a commentary entitled �oeWe Are At War” �" and faced considerable criticism from readers, Europeans and non-Europeans alike. [...] It is time for the European Union to recognize the reality �" it is at war, whether it likes it or not �" and respond accordingly. If there was ever a moment since the end of World War II when Europe needed to take charge of its security, it is now. Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39601&lan=EN http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/03/29/deportation-autonomy-and-occupation-in-the-story-of-one-crimean-tatar/ Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/03/29/deportation-autonomy-and-occupation-in-the-story-of-one-crimean-tatar/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39579&lan=EN One of the saddest ironies of this year’s commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union is that Hungary and Poland, always the most restless of the Soviet empire’s captured nations, are now led by men mimicking Russian President Vladimir Putin’s governing style. They, too, are hollowing out independent democratic institutions and suppressing citizens’ fundamental freedoms. As the old saying goes, we become what we hate. After the fall of communism, Poland and Hungary declared that they were Eastern European countries no more. Instead, they were part of Central Europe �" Europa Srodkowa, the Poles called it �" or even of Western Europe, on par with Austria. Today, however, they are embracing Putin-style authoritarianism, to the point that the European Union may impose sanctions against them. Such reprimands are fully deserved. Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39579&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39573&lan=EN No terrorists have come from the Arab world. All those involved until now, were Europeans, born and raised in Europe. Most were petty criminals or marginalized people, not at all observant, who become indoctrinated while serving prison terms for their crimes or through social networking. They were in fact nihilist, who found in ISIS dignity and escape from a life without work and a future. Europe has found 6 billion dollars to keep the refugees at bay, after spending more than 7 billion in military expenses in the Middle East. If that money would have been invested in the ghettos were Muslims live in Belgium, France and Great Britain, probably terrorism today would have been far less. Polarization is never helpful for democracy and tolerance. A group of 50.000 militants (in a world of 1.3 billion Muslims), is able to change our lives, reduce our individual privacy and freedom, and increase militarism and surveillance. If we do not get out of this trap of a clash of civilizations, Europe will change deeply and forever, because the phenomenon of terrorism is here to stay with us for generations… It took nearly two centuries for Europe to get rid of the wars of religion. In the 30 years war (1618-1648), 8 million out of a total population of 110 million, the majority of them civilians lost their lives. Will history help us to face the present? Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39573&lan=EN http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/03/17/entire-indigenous-population-of-crimea-endangered-with-looming-mejlis-ban/#arvlbdata Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/03/17/entire-indigenous-population-of-crimea-endangered-with-looming-mejlis-ban/#arvlbdata http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39521&lan=EN Sat, 19 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39521&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39520&lan=EN Fri, 18 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39520&lan=EN http://en.qantara.de/content/the-crisis-of-the-arab-nation-state-reconstructed-reality The far more significant challenge to the Sykes-Picot system instead appears within individual nation states. Over the preceding century these went through three main phases: the ″colonial states″ established in the wake of World War One, post-independence states that assumed sovereign functions after World War Two and authoritarian states that emerged in the course of military coups d′etat in the 1950s and 1960s and that stabilised from 1970 until the Arab Spring of 2010-2011. Particular modes of political rule varied from one phase to another and from one state to another, along with their associated constitutional frameworks, governing institutions and administrative measures �" as did their systems for the redistribution of social and economic wealth. Mon, 21 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/the-crisis-of-the-arab-nation-state-reconstructed-reality http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39516&lan=EN One of the many games pundits and politicians are playing these days is to spell out why and how the European Union (EU) is going to collapse, is already collapsing. Anyone who follows the news worldwide knows all the standard explanations: Grexit and Brexit will only lead to other exits; nobody wants more migrants (refugees) in their country; Germany has too much power, or not enough; ultra-rightwing forces/parties are rising almost everywhere; the Schengen Agreement providing visa-less movement is being suspended in most countries that had adopted it; unemployment is unstoppably growing. I am not here giving my views about whether the EU is good or bad, should or should not be supported or undermined. Rather, I wish to analyze what I think will actually happen. Will the institutions that now make up the European Union continue to exist ten or twenty years from now? I suspect they will. To see why I think so, let us review together what may make Europeans �" both the sophisticated and the "ignorant" �" hesitate about taking the fatal step of dismantling what they have been working so hard to create for the last seventy years or so. There are some reasons that one might call economic, others that are geopolitical, and finally still others that might be called cultural. Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39516&lan=EN http://neweasterneurope.eu/articles-and-commentary/1905-wake-up-europe-you-may-get-trumped In January 2017, a new US president will take office. Thus, with the US presidential election well underway, the most important questions for the Europeans are: What role will Europe play in America’s strategy after the next president is inaugurated? Will the US continue to be Europe’s security provider? Will Washington offer substantial help on the unfolding refugee crisis in Europe? Increasingly, the fight for the US presidency has become a contest between Donald Trump, on the Republican side, and, Hillary Clinton, on the Democratic side. So, Europe, here is what the two contenders say they will do for you. Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://neweasterneurope.eu/articles-and-commentary/1905-wake-up-europe-you-may-get-trumped http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39390&lan=EN After the Cold War, the West imposed an international order that defined geopolitics worldwide. When that order was threatened, Western leaders felt authorized to intervene in the affairs of whatever �oerogue state” was causing the problem. But now that order is being challenged on several fronts simultaneously �" globally by Russia and China, and at the regional level by increasingly assertive players in the Middle East, Latin America, and even Europe. As a new order takes shape, the roles countries have played for the last 25 years are likely to be reversed. In the West, the concept of sovereignty and the limited use of power is likely to make a comeback, while national leaders who have traditionally called for restraint will become increasingly bold in unleashing their troops. Mon, 07 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39390&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39371&lan=EN Yet even China’s most favored beneficiaries remain dubious about its model and motives, largely because Chinese aid remains primarily a business proposition. According to a 2013 study by the RAND Corporation, more than 80% of Chinese aid and official financing underwrites raw material extraction and the construction of the roads, bridges, and ports needed to transport these resources to China. The terms of Chinese aid also differ considerably from those of traditional donors. Assistance from the US, Europe, and Japan comes primarily in the form of grants; by contrast, two-thirds of Chinese aid is issued in the form of loans to finance projects and material, with China’s export-import and development banks and its state-owned enterprises providing the lion’s share of the funds. More than half of these loans also are �oetied,” meaning that they must be used for procurement from Chinese companies. Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39371&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39359&lan=EN It could be said that there are two Left-wings in Latin America, each facing a crisis in its own way. One of them came to government and began a process of democratization of their societies and of departure from the neoliberal model, but today is encountering difficulties �" of different kinds, from outside and from within �" to ensure continuity of these processes. The other is that which, living in countries still under neoliberal governments, cannot yet manage to constitute forces capable of winning elections, acceding to government and beginning to overcome neoliberalism. Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39359&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39317&lan=EN Within one month, the Bolivian democratic and cultural revolution will live transcendental moments of its recent history. First, on January 21 and 22, the anniversary of the Plurinational State and ten years of the change process are commemorated, and a month later, on February 21, there will be a historic vote which will symbolize the strength of the new Bolivian democracy against the fossilized neoliberal democracy. Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39317&lan=EN http://www.ipsnews.net/2016/02/elections-in-iran-a-test-for-the-regime/ Iran will hold two crucial elections on February 26, 2016, which could decide the fate of the Islamic Republic for many years to come. Earlier this month, Iranians celebrated the 37th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution. During that period, the country experienced revolutionary upheavals, a disastrous eight-year war with Iraq that killed and wounded nearly a million Iranians, eight years of populist rule by a hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and crippling Western sanctions. Yet, despite all these crises and upheavals, not only has the Islamic Republic survived, it could be argued that Iran is now the most stable country in the region. Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ipsnews.net/2016/02/elections-in-iran-a-test-for-the-regime/ http://en.qantara.de/content/irans-image-in-the-arab-world-conservative-regime-and-open-minded-society The real strength of Iran in both the medium and long term, however, lies in its society, which is much more emancipated than the regime and more open-minded than the ruling mullahs. Iran is an ancient civilisation, but Iranian society is today not only young but also more secular than any Arab society. People believe in reforms and gradual change and they want a more transparent and less ideological state. Iran is therefore poised at an oddly contradictory juncture between religious ideology coupled with a ponderous bureaucracy, a difficult economic situation and limited development, versus a pragmatic, emancipated public that wants more openness. Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/irans-image-in-the-arab-world-conservative-regime-and-open-minded-society http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39277&lan=EN The issue however is why states create nations, and what should be the attitude of the "left" to the concept of the nation. For some on the left, the concept of the nation is the great equalizer. It is an assertion that everyone (or almost everyone) has the right to full and equal participation in the decision-making of the state, as opposed to the rights of only a minority (for example, the aristocracy) to full participation. Today, we often call this a Jacobin view of the nation. Jacobinism gives rise to the category of a citizen. Persons are citizens by birthright and not because they have a particular "ethnic" origin or a particular religion or any other characteristic that is attributed to them, either by themselves or by others. Citizens have votes (as of a certain age). Each citizen has one vote. All citizens are therefore equal before the law. Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39277&lan=EN http://www.voxeurop.eu/fr/content/article/5052369-une-aubaine-pour-l-europe �oeA drama… an irreversible dismembering” of Europe, says Manuel Valls, French Prime Minister. But would enlargement. The UK always encouraged this policy, seeing it as an effective way of diluting the Franco-German partnership that has called the shots on the continent. Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.voxeurop.eu/fr/content/article/5052369-une-aubaine-pour-l-europe http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39262&lan=EN Today’s turmoil reflects a clash of worldviews that is both theological and political. Conservative Sunnis, such as those who adhere to fundamentalist Wahhabism, favor theocratic authoritarian rule, whereas more moderate Sufi Sunnis would prefer liberal and inclusive political systems. The same is true of the Shia. Iran has long stuck to theocratic rule, but now seems to be looking toward reform. Whether the sectarian divide can ever be bridged most likely depends on whether reformists can gain sufficient influence in both camps. If not, the conflict will continue to rage, accelerating the breakdown of regional order we now see. Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39262&lan=EN http://en.qantara.de/content/president-bouteflika-and-algerias-future-the-sick-man-of-the-mediterranean En esta nota no nos referiremos a la esclavitud con las características con que predominó en la antigüedad, pero que todavía subsiste, legalmente, como por ejemplo en Mauritania y en la India, o de hecho en otros lugares y afecta, según estimaciones, a unas 20 millones de personas �"hombres, mujeres y niños- en todo el mundo, sino que nos referiremos a la esclavitud contemporánea, inherente a la etapa actual del sistema capitalista y que involucra a la mayor parte de la humanidad. Mon, 08 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/president-bouteflika-and-algerias-future-the-sick-man-of-the-mediterranean http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39258&lan=EN He died right at the moment of clashes between the fundamentalists of Islam and the others. He tried to draw attention to this problem that he had clearly seen coming, and he leaves a world where his ideas and his views have become too noble for a world where nationalism, xenophobia and conflict have become the main actors in international relations. It is time now to look more closely at those ideas and ideals, and less at Boutros Boutros-Ghali as a human being, with its inevitable flaws and shortcoming which is also as he would want to be remembered. With him, we lived through what looks to have been the last great moment of the United Nations, with international law as e basis for cooperation and action. Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39258&lan=EN http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-16/first-silk-road-train-arrives-in-iran-from-china/7170540?utm_source=phplist94&utm_medium=email&utm_content=HTML&utm_campaign=Political+Anticipation+-+LEAP+Press+review Mon, 15 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-16/first-silk-road-train-arrives-in-iran-from-china/7170540?utm_source=phplist94&utm_medium=email&utm_content=HTML&utm_campaign=Political+Anticipation+-+LEAP+Press+review http://en.qantara.de/content/interview-with-martin-kobler-un-special-representative-on-libya-libya-must-not-become-the Between January 2015 and January 2016, IS greatly increased its presence in Libya. The jihadists are currently trying to gain control of the oil terminals at Ras Lanuf. Of course it would be catastrophic, if the little oil that Libya still produces were to fall into the hands of IS. We're observing clear IS expansion to the east. But there have also been terror attacks in the west in recent weeks. Of greatest concern is the jihadist expansion to the south, one that is advancing by the day. The strategic goal is probably a co-operation with extremist groups such as Boko Haram and terror groups in Chad and Niger. The Libyans must prevent this from happening. Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/interview-with-martin-kobler-un-special-representative-on-libya-libya-must-not-become-the http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39229&lan=EN The economic transition underway in China is desirable, even if it contains significant risks and new challenges for Chinese climate policies. China will indeed soon be reaching (or has already reached) peak coal. Yet drivers of strong investment in coal power continue. In the long term, the policy challenge in China will shift from stopping new coal to closing existing coal, and addressing the social, economic and political challenges that go with this. Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39229&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39175&lan=EN Germany’s embrace of a more active global role has taken place within a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape �" one in which German and other European leaders have had to accept that most of the rest of the world does not share their preference for multilateral decision-making. They have also had to come to terms with the fact that the United States is no longer prepared to take the lead in every crisis, and that rising global powers �" such as China, India, and Brazil �" are not yet prepared to contribute effectively to maintaining a stable global order. Meanwhile, the dividing lines between domestic and international affairs have become increasingly blurred. The refugee crisis, for example, demands policy interventions in areas as diverse as defense, development aid, European integration, domestic security, and social-welfare policy. Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39175&lan=EN http://en.qantara.de/content/mother-tongue-instruction-in-multi-ethnic-iran-linguistic-diversity-as-opportunity Iran is a state of many ethnicities where over a dozen languages are spoken, including, among others, Persian, Baluchi, Luri, Arabic, and Turkish. Unfortunately, the country’s education policy does not take account of this linguistic diversity. By Manutschehr Amirpur The Islamic Republic of Iran has continued the policy of the old regime in that it only permits the learning of the country′s official language (Persian), even though this contradicts the obligations set out in the constitution. The widespread tradition of ′one country, one language′, which lives on across the Middle East despite the fact that reality is very different, is also alive and well in Iran. Fri, 29 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/mother-tongue-instruction-in-multi-ethnic-iran-linguistic-diversity-as-opportunity http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39155&lan=EN The liberal Western order in place since the end of World War II was based on the global hegemony of the United States. As the only true global power, it was dominant not only in the realm of hard military power (as well as economically and financially), but in nearly all dimensions of soft power (for example, culture, language, mass media, technology, and fashion). Today, the Pax Americana that ensured a large degree of global stability has begun to fray �" most notably in the Middle East and on the Korean Peninsula. The US may still be the world’s strongest power, but it is no longer able or willing to play the role of the world’s policeman or make the sacrifices needed to guarantee order. Indeed, in a globalized world, with ever closer integration in terms of communication, technology, and �" as we have recently seen �" the movement of people, the centers of power are diluted and dispersed; by its very nature, a globalized world eludes the imposition of twentieth-century order. Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39155&lan=EN http://www.france24.com/fr/20160131-france-cuba-visite-officielle-raul-castro-business-economie-diplomatie-etats-unis Cuba's Communist President Raul Castro will be welcomed under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris during a rare state visit Monday to showcase his island's warming ties with big world powers. The Cuban leader arrived in Paris on Saturday, two days ahead of the start of the official programme, sources at Orly airport south of Paris said. Castro's visit is an indication of his island's improved ties with major powers following last year's restoration of relations with longtime foe, the United States. On the back of that rapprochement the 84-year-old leader is now paying court to France, one of his most powerful European allies Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.france24.com/fr/20160131-france-cuba-visite-officielle-raul-castro-business-economie-diplomatie-etats-unis http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39137&lan=EN The two characters that comprise the Chinese word for crisis mean, individually, �oedanger” and �oeopportunity”. That is precisely what China sees in today’s Middle East. Of course, China’s success in the Middle East requires progress on mitigating the region’s tensions, cooling its hotspots, and stabilizing weak countries �" all of which will require smart diplomacy by many actors. But peace and development are inextricably linked. To turn the tide against extremism, Middle Eastern countries must be able to provide economic opportunities to their people, and these can only be secured through trade, investment, and jobs. In this fundamental respect, China has a lot to offer the Middle East �" and President Xi has once again shown his determination to offer it. Fri, 29 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39137&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39135&lan=EN Last autumn, UNEP named South Africa's Black Mambas anti-poaching squad as Champions of the Earth. They won this most prestigious award along with the PM of Bangladesh and the CEO of Unilever. Ms Siphiwe Sithole, one of this amazing mainly female team, has a great saying about: "Starting to protect whatever you have in your yard...then you will know how to fight for other things as well." Your Excellency, Ministers, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for the opportunity to speak here today - because I don't think that anybody in this room would disagree that Africa has the best "yard" on the planet or that we must do more to protect it. Nowhere on earth can touch this amazing continent for the scale and diversity of natural resources, with: 10% of the world's freshwater reserves,17% of its forests, and almost a quarter of its plant and mammal species 10% of known global oil reserves and Africa's mineral potential remains grossly under-explored. So this should be an unrivaled natural treasure chest for the people of Africa. Wed, 27 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39135&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39129&lan=EN Turkey was certainly in a strong position to make a difference. With its functioning democracy, booming market economy, and rich cultural history, Turkey seemed to offer an attractive economic, social, and political model for the region. Like Indonesia, it was living proof that Islam is, in fact, compatible with both democracy and modernity �" an observation that was not lost on the demonstrators in, say, Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Even then, however, there was cause for concern. Erdogan was already giving the impression that he might seek to concentrate power in his own hands, thereby undermining Turkey’s democracy and, in turn, its regional leadership ambitions. Unfortunately, that is precisely what has happened. Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39129&lan=EN http://en.qantara.de/content/higher-education-in-tunisia-the-vestiges-of-spring And the youth are supposed to be the driving force for the development of the nation: so says Article 8 of the new Tunisian constitution. The reality looks rather different. President Beji Caid Essebsi is 89 and during his election campaign he said repeatedly: "youth is a mental, not a physical state." He wants to get Tunisia on the right path and then hand it over to the youth. Only the youth don’t believe in that, they don’t feel they are being taken seriously and they can’t get a foothold in the established political parties. They stay away from the polling booths: only 12.5 percent of 18-21-year-olds voted in the parliamentary elections a year ago. According to a study by the World Bank, in Tunisian cities, only just under a third of young people have faith in the political system; in rural areas that figure is less than ten percent. Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/higher-education-in-tunisia-the-vestiges-of-spring http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39090&lan=EN The elections in Haiti have this in common with the post-earthquake reconstruction process, in which the USA, the EU and the international actors played the primary role ; at the same time as donors, as arbiters and as main recipients. While refusing to draw lessons from the past, persisting to deny their responsibility in introducing cholera to the country, they tend to isolate the evils which hit Haiti in the delays of Progress, the misunderstandings of Haitian culture, the DNA of a people or the fate of history. Finally, for the international community the main problem of the elections, like with the reconstruction process, are the Haitians themselves. They remain outside, sidelined or a surplus. In reality, one should reverse the equation : today as yesterday, the hope for change comes from the Haitian people, while the international community is more the problem than the solution for Haiti. Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39090&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39084&lan=EN The drastic fall in global oil prices has received a fair amount of attention of late. However, while oil has been capturing the headlines, other carbon intensive fuels have also been experiencing equivalently impressive price falls. What might this mean for climate policy in Europe, especially this year when the EU will revise its policy framework for the promotion of renewable energy technologies? These price trends matter for climate policy because they are key determinants of the wholesale prices of energy for power, heating and cooling, and transportation. To be sure, they are not the only determinants of these prices�"for instance, falling electricity prices also reflect production overcapacity, which is in turn linked to slowing demand, overbuilding during the boom, and a short-run consequence of needing to inject renewables into the system before other plants are ready to retire. Nevertheless, lower fossil fuel prices compound these effects. Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39084&lan=EN http://en.qantara.de/content/five-years-of-arab-spring-the-butterfly-effect On 17 December 2011, the Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire. In a figurative sense, the vegetable seller's act of desperation was the flap that initiated the Arab Spring with all its consequences. With his famous question "can the flap of a butterfly wing in Brazil trigger a tornado in Texas?" the US mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz established the theory of the "butterfly effect". In a sensitive, unstable system, small variations in the status quo can result in momentous consequences. And the Arab system was unstable. Indeed, the toppling of the Arab dictators has also triggered a tornado in Europe, with the refugee crisis and the attacks in Paris and other places. There are evidently no limits to the effect of flapping butterfly wings, as must be apparent �" even to those in Europe who continue to hope that they can shut themselves away from it all. Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/five-years-of-arab-spring-the-butterfly-effect http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39073&lan=EN One of the toughest nuts to crack in the peace negotiations is the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his henchmen. The Assad regime is responsible for the highest number of civilian casualties by far, having carried out indiscriminate attacks in populated opposition-held areas, besieged entire populations, blocked the delivery of humanitarian aid, and tortured and executed prisoners. And yet, while Assad’s opponents insist that he relinquish power, that clearly will not be a precondition for the talks. As a practical matter, Assad leads one of the conflict’s most powerful factions, one that must be represented at the negotiating table if peace is to be achieved. Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39073&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39058&lan=EN Concluded at the WTO’s 2013 Bali Ministerial Conference, the TFA contains provisions for expediting the movement, release and clearance of goods, including goods in transit. It also sets out measures for effective cooperation between customs and other appropriate authorities on trade facilitation and customs compliance issues. It further contains provisions for technical assistance and capacity building in this area. The TFA will enter into force once two-thirds of the WTO membership has formally accepted the Agreement. Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39058&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39045&lan=EN Lebanese authorities are imposing regulations that effectively bar many Syrian refugees from renewing their residency permits, heightening risks of exploitation and abuse among people who fled persecution and war, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 35-page report, �oe‘I Just Wanted to be Treated like a Person’: How Lebanon’s Residency Rules Facilitate Abuse of Syrian Refugees,” is based on interviews with more than 60 Syrian refugees, lawyers, and humanitarian workers assisting refugees in Lebanon. Human Rights Watch found that residency regulations adopted in January 2015 have resulted in most Syrians losing their legal status. Only two out of the 40 refugees interviewed said they had been able to renew their residencies. Lebanese authorities should immediately revise the renewal regulations, including by waiving renewal fees and ending requirements for many refugees to find a sponsor. Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39045&lan=EN http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/05/5-facts-about-sunnis-and-shiites-that-help-makes-sense-of-the-saudi-iran-crisis/ The execution of Shiite cleric Nimr Baqr al-Nimr by Saudi Arabia has sparked a furor in the Middle East along sectarian lines. In Iran, the regional Shiite superpower, the Saudi Embassy was ransacked and burned. The Saudi kingdom and a number of its Sunni allies have cut or downgraded diplomatic relations with Tehran. In a number of Sunni-majority states, members of the Shiite minority have taken to the streets to protest Nimr's death. The events seem to be a worrying escalation of the sectarian rhetoric that has blighted the Muslim world in recent years and helped worsen conflicts in places like Syria, Iraq and Yemen. While it would be very wrong to lay all the blame on the religious schism that split the Sunni and the Shiite Muslims nearly 14 centuries ago, it's hard to deny that the current divide reinforces a lot of other rivalries and disputes �" and is perhaps even exploited by some to further other aims. Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/05/5-facts-about-sunnis-and-shiites-that-help-makes-sense-of-the-saudi-iran-crisis/ http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/what-are-the-top-global-risks-for-2016 From the environment to international security and the coming Fourth Industrial Revolution, the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2016 finds risks on the rise in 2016. In this year’s annual survey, almost 750 experts assessed 29 separate global risks for both impact and likelihood over a 10-year time horizon. The risk with the greatest potential impact in 2016 was found to be a failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation. This is the first time since the report was published in 2006 that an environmental risk has topped the ranking. This year, it was considered to have greater potential damage than weapons of mass destruction (2nd), water crises (3rd), large-scale involuntary migration (4th) and severe energy price shock (5th). Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/what-are-the-top-global-risks-for-2016 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39026&lan=EN Today, the United Nations Security Council has more sanctions regimes in place than at any time in its history. During the 1990s, the maximum was eight; in the 2000s, the peak rose to 12; now it stands at 16. And these totals do not include sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United States. Judging by this escalation, one might conclude that sanctions have proved a remarkably effective tool in promoting international peace and security. Unfortunately, that is far from being the case. In fact, academic studies suggest that sanctions have had limited success. Thomas Biersteker of the Graduate Institute in Geneva estimates that sanctions are effective only about 20% of the time. Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39026&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39023&lan=EN The breach in diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia is a dangerous watershed in an already unstable, war-torn region. The trigger was the execution by Saudi Arabia of Nimr al-Nimr, a firebrand Shia sheikh who had called for the end of the country’s monarchy. But the rupture has its roots in a strategic rivalry that stretches across the Middle East. Fri, 08 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39023&lan=EN http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/opinion/president-barack-obama-guns-are-our-shared-responsibility.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FObama%2C%20Barack&action=click&contentCollection=politics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=12& THE epidemic of gun violence in our country is a crisis. Gun deaths and injuries constitute one of the greatest threats to public health and to the safety of the American people. Every year, more than 30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns. Suicides. Domestic violence. Gang shootouts. Accidents. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost brothers and sisters, or buried their own children. We’re the only advanced nation on earth that sees this kind of mass violence with this frequency. A national crisis like this demands a national response. Reducing gun violence will be hard. It’s clear that common-sense gun reform won’t happen during this Congress. It won’t happen during my presidency. Still, there are steps we can take now to save lives. And all of us �" at every level of government, in the private sector and as citizens �" have to do our part. We all have a responsibility. Thu, 07 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/opinion/president-barack-obama-guns-are-our-shared-responsibility.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FObama%2C%20Barack&action=click&contentCollection=politics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=12& http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39017&lan=EN This has been a bad year for parties in power faced with elections. They have been losing them, if not absolutely then relatively. Attention has been focusing on a series of elections where so-called rightwing parties have been performing better, sometimes much better, than parties in power considered to be leftwing. Notable examples are Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, and Denmark. And one might add the United States. What is less commented on has been the reverse situation �" parties in power that are "rightwing" losing to forces on the left, or at least losing in percentages and numbers of seats they have obtained at the national and/or provincial levels. This has been true, in often quite different ways, of Canada, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Italy, and India. Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39017&lan=EN http://en.qantara.de/content/iran-and-saudi-arabia-the-impending-storm It should be noted that this Iranian-Saudi rivalry is not confessional in nature, the continuation of an "age-old enmity" (Sueddeutsche Zeitung) between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam. It is much more a case of this interpretation, as it always has been, being part of an imperial divide and rule policy, one that flourished in particular most recently in the first decade of the 21st century. The violent US-led removal of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003 and the crushing of the Iraqi state prepared the ground for Iran's power consolidation, a process that reached its climax in the mid-2000s. Saudi Arabia reacted to this with an increasingly aggressive anti-Iranian, anti-Shia discourse, which has polluted the regional climate ever since. Riyadh has also failed to exert political influence in Iraq �" its embassy in Baghdad only just reopened this January after 25 years. Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/iran-and-saudi-arabia-the-impending-storm http://theconversation.com/arabie-saoudite-iran-de-la-guerre-par-procuration-a-la-guerre-des-mots-52776 Ever since Saudi Arabia executed Shia Cleric Nimr al-Nimr for terrorist offences, tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been escalating by the day. After the execution, the Saudi embassy was stormed by protesters in Tehran. Riyadh has now severed diplomatic relations with Tehran �" and the UAE, Bahrain and Sudan, staunch Saudi allies, have followed suit, spurred on by Iran’s portentous prediction of �oedivine vengeance” for the execution. Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://theconversation.com/arabie-saoudite-iran-de-la-guerre-par-procuration-a-la-guerre-des-mots-52776 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39010&lan=EN It is too bad that we have so far been unable to furnish another label with the toxic power of fascism for these abhorrent people and movements. We will have to make do with more ordinary words: religious fanaticism for the Islamic State, reactionary anarchism for the Tea Party, and self-indulgent demagoguery on behalf of oligarchy for Donald Trump. There are fringe movements today, such as Aryan Nations in the United States and Golden Dawn in Greece, that draw openly upon Nazi symbolism and employ physical violence. The term �oefascist” is better left to them. Read more at https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/is-fascism-back-by-robert-o--paxton-2016-01#cd6ppgdEsOvAHXWC.99 Thu, 07 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39010&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39007&lan=EN The future of the left is no more difficult to predict than any other social fact. The best way to address it is by way of what I term the sociology of emergences, which consists in paying special attention to signs from the present that can be read as trends or the harbinger of whatever will be decisive in the future. At present I propose to draw special attention to a fact that, given its uncommon nature, could portend something new and important. I allude to recent pacts signed by various parties on the left. Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=39007&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38999&lan=EN Latin America isn’t the same as it was at the beginning of the millennium. The commodities boom was the engine behind significant achievements in employment, salaries and poverty levels across the region, which ended up changing the economic landscape. A reality promoted, without a doubt, by the rise of China. But after over a decade of growth, the tides have changed for Latin America. It’s anticipated that the region will have to adapt to a new reality of low growth in 2016, precisely because of the slowdown in the Asian giant, among other reasons. However, while the adverse effects of the global economic slowdown are making themselves felt �" higher levels of informal employment, lower salaries �" Augusto de la Torre, Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean for the World Bank says it is key that Latin American countries don’t lose sight of the social gains won over the past 15 years. Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38999&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38987&lan=EN At this time, we all wish �oe a very good year”. While the wish is always a positive thing, we should also realize that we cannot expect too much from the new born year. He is loaded by so many handicaps, that we should have lot of sympathy for him…He is part of a negative circle that started with the financial crisis of 2008, and that will probably conclude in 2017, a cathartic year in which elections in several key countries and other crucial appointments could open a new cycle. Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38987&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38985&lan=EN The takeaway from all this is that the United States can never be second to anyone, and has nothing to learn from others, when the opposite is really the truth. Americans have a great belief in their own exceptionalism or manifest destiny �" only Israel has a similar belief in itself. So the Republican majority in Congress can easily disregard the fact that almost 200 nations met in Paris recently to unanimously agree that the planet faces a serious threat from the use of fossil fuels, and to make an (insufficient) effort to change that trend. Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38985&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38981&lan=EN Like Catherine, Putin, hopes to trade off his invasions. Ukraine clearly remains Russia’s top priority. By intervening in Syria �" a conflict of primary concern to Europe and the US �" the Kremlin feels it has acquired leverage over Ukraine’s Western partners. The consequences �" including military casualties and the threat of retaliation by the Islamic State �" pale in comparison to the possibility of a grand bargain that secures his gains closer to home. Putin is so confident that he holds all the cards that he made a point of toning down his usual anti-American bluster. He said he supported US Secretary of State John Kerry’s efforts to address jointly issues �oethat can be resolved only together,” and that he was ready to �oework with any president voted in by the American people.” There is little question, however, about which US candidate Putin would like to see in the White House. In remarks following the press conference, he praised Trump as �oea very colorful, talented person” and the �oeabsolute leader of the presidential race.” Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38981&lan=EN http://de.qantara.de/inhalt/repression-und-legitimation-in-aegypten-die-welt-wie-sie-al-sisi-gefaellt A policy formula that only recognises two distinctions �" those who are "for the regime" and those who are "against the regime", with the latter arguably grouped under the heading "potential terrorists" �" is leading to widespread human rights violations and the persecution of those who hold different political views. A commentary by Thomas Demmelhuber Mon, 28 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://de.qantara.de/inhalt/repression-und-legitimation-in-aegypten-die-welt-wie-sie-al-sisi-gefaellt http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38960&lan=EN Saudi Arabia has been bankrolling Islamist terrorism since the oil-price boom of the 1970s dramatically boosted the country’s wealth. According to a 2013 European Parliament report, some of the $10 billion invested by Saudi Arabia for �oeits Wahhabi agenda” in South and Southeast Asia was �oediverted” to terrorist groups, including Lashkar-e-Taiba, which carried out the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38960&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38949&lan=EN So, when Western leaders ask Arabs and others in the region why they can’t govern themselves, they should be prepared for the answer: �oeFor a full century, your interventions have undermined democratic institutions (by rejecting the results of the ballot box in Algeria, Palestine, Egypt, and elsewhere); stoked repeated and now chronic wars; armed the most violent jihadists for your cynical bidding; and created a killing field that today stretches from Bamako to Kabul.” What, then, should be done to bring about a new Middle East? I would propose five principles. Sat, 19 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38949&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38921&lan=EN But it is time to consider that the right wing in Europe (as well as in the United States), is going beyond nostalgia and xenophobia. Its growth in every European country is due to an expanding number of disaffected citizens, many of whom come from the working class and the poorest sections of society. They are citizens who once vote for the left, but have become frustrated with the decline of welfare structures, unemployment for them or their children, a state in retreat in favour of the market, growing social injustice, immigration felt as a threat, loss of national identity and strident corruption. This has created a new category of what could be called �oeeconomic nationalism” which wants to combat all forms of foreign intrusion, whether it be the European Union, immigrants, NATO or multinationals. The traditional parties are looked on as a self-referent mechanism of unaccountable elites, who are interested in perpetuation in power and do not deliver what citizens need. It is mix of xenophobia, nationalism, nostalgia for a past that was better, a call for an economy that enhances the nation without giving any space to foreign forces and institutions �" it is a container large enough to accommodate a growing part of the electorate. Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38921&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38918&lan=EN The roots of the Middle East’s many conflicts lie in the unraveling of the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century and the failure since then to forge a stable regional order. As the international community works toward securing a durable peace in the region, its leaders would be wise to remember the lessons of history. Mon, 30 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38918&lan=EN http://geab.eu/etats-unis-russie-syrie-attentats-de-paris-leurope-broyee-dans-le-mouvement-des-plaques-tectoniques-de-la-grande-reconfiguration-geopolitique-mondiale-2/ The global systemic crisis we have been experiencing for at least eight years is challenging a world order which we have often compared to the one going back not only to the end of the Second World War, but more broadly to the Renaissance and the great discoveries of late fifteenth century. 500 years ago, Europe put itself at the heart of the planet, launching an extensive programme of exploration, followed by exploitation, then colonization, and finally cooperation with the rest of the world. 500 years ago, Europe became the heart of the world. Mon, 07 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://geab.eu/etats-unis-russie-syrie-attentats-de-paris-leurope-broyee-dans-le-mouvement-des-plaques-tectoniques-de-la-grande-reconfiguration-geopolitique-mondiale-2/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38863&lan=EN Not since the Algerian War more than a half-century ago has France imposed such sweeping emergency powers. In little more than two weeks since the Paris attacks, French police have carried out well over 1,000 raids nationwide, busting open doors, hauling away scores of suspects without warrants�"and even using their new counterterror laws to clamp down on climate-change protesters. Responses to the Paris attacks, whether based on the rule of law or sinking to the lowest common denominator�"such as Donald Trump’s call to reinstate the form of torture known as waterboarding�"will be test cases for leading democracies. Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38863&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38860&lan=EN A straight-A student rejected from high school, a promising baseball player unable to pursue a successful career, a seriously ill woman prevented from seeing a doctor, a human rights activist virtually imprisoned in his own country. The thing they all have in common is what they do not have: a small piece of paper with their identification data printed on it. The multi-coloured card may be small, but it makes the difference between poverty and marginalization and a secure job, access to medical facilities, a school place and a chance in life. It is a card that has split a country into a thousand pieces. One that now threatens to turn tens of thousands of people into virtual ‘ghosts’, without a country to call home. Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38860&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38824&lan=EN The U.S. Congress, under the valiant leadership of Republicans, has vetoed the entry of Syrian refugees, including women and children, into the United States against Obama’s intention to accept 10,000 �" a symbolic amount in a country which accepts over 50.000 refugees every year �" while Germany is accepting at least 800,000 Syrians. What is frightening is the total ignorance of the world which is behind that veto. The Syrian war is no longer a war made by Syrians. It is a war in which many foreign powers are ready to fight to the last Syrian. And now along comes the U.S. Congress which equates being Syrian with being a terrorist, while the Syrian people are actually the victims of everyone! Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38824&lan=EN http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2015-11-17-newsitem-en.html Fredrik Sonck, former editor at Finnish Eurozine partner Ny Tid, observes: "It's hardly a coincidence that Paris has been hit two times in less than 12 months." Sonck, now at the Helsinki newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet, continues In the eighteenth century, Paris was the cradle of European Enlightenment, when the Church's hegemonic power over the minds of free men was first seriously challenged, as was the hegemonic power of authoritarian rulers over the bodies of their subjects. The political and cultural consequences of the Enlightenment are immense. It's one of the most precious achievements of Europe. This continent has to answer for much blood and oppression �" inside it's borders, and outside; there are many reasons to be ashamed. But this is not one of them. The idea of freedom, equality and fraternity comes from Paris. But, writes Sonck, there are those who hate freedom, and are prepared to die to fight it. Islamist terrorists, for example, "who attack satire magazines, rock concerts and just ordinary people all over the world". Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2015-11-17-newsitem-en.html http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38776&lan=EN The media everywhere are now unanimous in their condemnation of the Paris massacre three days ago, calling for unity of the West and intensification of military action against the Islamic States (IS). But would that solve the problem of terrorism? And it is not also time to make reflect on the responsibilities of the West in the rise of terrorism? Of course, the slaughter in Paris can only cause horror and mourning. But why can some very young people act so atrociously? The commune of Courcouronnes, the ghetto from which identified kamikaze killer Ismail Mostafa came, was also home to Asata Diakitè, one of the victims. Let then us make three reflections. Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38776&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38758&lan=EN Leaders of European and African countries should ensure that intensified migration cooperation does not come at the expense of respect for human rights, Human Rights Watch said today. Over 60 heads of state from the two regions will gather on November 11, 2015, in Valletta, Malta, for a two-day summit the European Union sought with African nations, to discuss the refugee and migration crisis. �oeEnsuring that people can live in safety and dignity should be the overarching aim of migration cooperation and development assistance,” said Judith Sunderland, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. �oeFor that to happen, at the Valletta Summit and beyond, it’s vital for human rights and refugee protection to stand as core principles for any common EU-Africa efforts.” Tue, 10 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38758&lan=EN http://en.qantara.de/content/chronicle-of-a-war-foretold-redefining-the-syrian-conflict The war waging in Syria, hijacked by opposing ideologies just months after it began, has had an irrevocable impact on the Syrian people. Although not much is heard of Syrians outside the refugee camps, Americans, Europeans, Russians, Turks, Iranians, and Arabs hold meeting after meeting to agree and disagree, coalesce and collide, in an attempt to halt the "Syrian conflict". After five years of the Syrian war, we can recognise "our" conflicting parties on the ground �" Assad, IS, the rebels and the Kurds. Each one of these conflicting parties has regional and international backers, who ironically do not agree with each other about whom they are fighting for or against. Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/chronicle-of-a-war-foretold-redefining-the-syrian-conflict http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38747&lan=EN As the world’s media descends upon Myanmar in an Aung San Suu Kyi-fuelled whirl of excitement, casual observers might feel a bit confused by the complexity of it all. Here are five pointers to get your head around this potentially ground-breaking event. Despite her release from house arrest in 2010, her election to parliament in 2012 and her return to the world stage, ‘Daw Suu’ �" as she is known in Myanmar �" is not able to run for the top job. This is due to a clause in the national constitution (Article 59f), widely assumed to be in effect for the sole purpose of blocking her. The clause prevents anyone with foreign children from assuming the presidency (Suu Kyi has two sons from her marriage with the late British scholar, Michael Aris). Her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), hasn’t actually established a candidate for the presidency yet. Those rumoured to be in the frame are veterans of the country’s democracy movement who remained loyal to Suu Kyi throughout her years of house arrest. They are now elderly men. Suu Kyi said today that she intends to essentially run the government from behind the scenes. Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38747&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38741&lan=EN The European Union is facing a truly terrifying array of crises. After prolonged euro and sovereign-debt crises polarized and radicalized the continent, creating a deep north-south rift, the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees has pitted east (plus the United Kingdom) against west. Add to that numerous other divides and contradictions, and the EU’s collapse seems to many more likely than ever. Simply put, Europe is overloaded by crises �" so overloaded, in fact, that many claim it is too weary to respond effectively to new challenges as they arise. Years of trauma, according to this view, have sapped the psychic energy its leaders need to design effective solutions, and the political capital needed to win support for these solutions. That is why the response to the refugee crisis has been so sorely lacking. Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38741&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38687&lan=EN US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, when asked about American support for the notorious Nicaraguan despot Anastasio Somoza, purportedly replied, �oeHe may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.” Whether or not the quip is apocryphal, it sums up a longstanding Western approach to much of the world �" and one that underpinned US foreign policy throughout the Cold War. But lately an even more troubling sentiment seems to have emerged, with Western leaders willing to settle not for �oeour son of a bitch,” but for just about any son of a bitch who can impose stability, whatever the cost. It is an alluring but dangerous mindset. Experience should have pushed Western leaders in the opposite direction. After all, as time passed, the ostensibly pragmatic clientelism of the Cold War proved far from ideal. Indeed, in many cases �" the Shah of Iran, Cambodia’s Lon Nol, Chile’s Augusto Pinochet, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Mobutu Sese Seko, to name a few �" it led to long-term insecurity and disorder. Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38687&lan=EN http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/28/cameron-to-confront-norway-option-anti-eu-campaigners David Cameron is to signal his determination to maintain Britain’s membership of the EU by issuing a direct challenge to anti-EU campaigners who claim the UK could negotiate a semi-detached relationship with Brussels. Amid growing fear among pro-EU Tories that the Leave campaign is making most of the running in the EU debate, Cameron will say he sees little future for Britain alongside European countries that have opted out of the EU. The prime minister, who has faced strong pressure from pro-European Tories to highlight the benefits of the UK’s EU membership, will speak out during an appearance at the Northern Future Forum in Reykjavik, Iceland. Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/28/cameron-to-confront-norway-option-anti-eu-campaigners http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38684&lan=EN A plan agreed to by European Union and Balkan leaders on October 25, 2015, to address the needs of refugees on the Western Balkans migration route, also risks exacerbating suffering and blocking access to protection, Human Rights Watch said today. The action plan, which seeks to prevent asylum seekers moving on from transit countries and to make those countries responsible for processing their claims, could lead to new bottlenecks. The plan does, however, include steps that could help enhance coordination and aid efforts along the Balkan route. Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38684&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38635&lan=EN The European Union's asylum policy now has a face. It is that of Aylan, the drowned Syrian child lying alongside his brother on a Mediterranean beach. The macabre reality suffered by the thousands of dead migrants who preceded him heralded a turning point in the existential crisis of the common asylum policy. This has now been brought into the one realm of any worth: that of the Union's values. To form an opinion we have to know what we are talking about. The extent of the crisis explains the difficulty in responding to it. Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38635&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38618&lan=EN The October 8 High Level Conference on the Eastern Mediterranean-Western Balkans route is to include interior and foreign ministers from the EU member states, and Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. The stated aim of the meeting is to �oeincrease solidarity with those bearing the brunt of refugee flows from Syria” and ensure �oean orderly management of refugee and migration flows along the route.” �oeThis summit underscores what we have repeatedly witnessed, that EU governments see countries outside the EU as the answer to the crisis,” said Benjamin Ward, deputy Europe and Central Asia division director at Human Rights Watch. �oeBut Turkey already hosts nearly 2 million Syrians with temporary protection that doesn’t provide secure refugee status, while Serbia and Macedonia are manifestly incapable of dealing with the current numbers, even for short periods.” Wed, 07 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38618&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38615&lan=EN Gruesome reports from Europe �" of people drowning as their rickety boats capsize in unforgiving waters, of migrants detained in squalid camps and even summarily executed on the high seas �" have hit the headlines with predictable regularity in recent years. These tragic incidents have a long history. What has changed is the exceptional scale of the migration across the Mediterranean sea. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimated that some 30,400 migrants had arrived in Greece by just May this year, compared to 34,000 in all of 2014. From the beginning of the crisis it was clear to all except European governments that patrolling the Mediterranean and blocking the Channel Tunnel would fail; the land routes, railway networks, and pre-dawn single-queue processions have made these redundant. Government nitpicking about categories such as refugee, asylum seeker, economic migrant, illegal immigrant; deploying FRONTEX (the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union) to apprehend alien intruders, and planning cordon after cordon to make Europe a protected place �" have all been overrun by the crowd of what can only be described as refugees. Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38615&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38613&lan=EN Until a few weeks ago, Europeans believed they lived in a kind of sanctuary, insulated from the world’s current conflicts. Certainly, the news and images of drowned migrants were dreadful; but the tragedy occurring south of Italy, Greece, and Malta, seemed a long way off. Syria’s brutal civil war, which has been raging for years, seemed even farther away. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad deployed poison gas and later barrel bombs filled with nails and metal fragments against his rebellious population. And those who escaped Assad’s henchmen found themselves confronted by the terror of the Islamic State. Hundreds of thousands were killed, and millions of Syrians have fled, with most living in camps in Jordan, Lebanon, or Turkey for years, in appalling conditions and with no hope of improvement. Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38613&lan=EN http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/30/uk-un-assembly-syria-obama-idUKKCN0RU01Q20150930 Russia's military buildup in Syria appears to have forced U.S. President Barack Obama to two unpalatable conclusions: He cannot ignore Moscow, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may survive for some time. Russian President Vladimir Putin, isolated after his annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, secured a meeting with Obama on Monday largely as a result of his surprise movement of planes and tanks into Syria. Both sides said they were looking for ways to work with one another to end the Syrian civil war. And, according to a U.S. official, they agreed their militaries should coordinate to prevent Russian and U.S.-led coalition forces from inadvertently clashing over Syria. Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/30/uk-un-assembly-syria-obama-idUKKCN0RU01Q20150930 http://en.qantara.de/content/civil-war-in-syria-first-assad-then-islamic-state It all sounds so hopeful. The UN Security Council is speaking with one voice, foreign ministers are shuttling between Moscow, Tehran, Riyadh, Ankara, the Gulf States and Damascus, and even ideological enemies are talking to each other: Saudi Arabia and emissaries from Assad, members of the opposition National Coalition and Russia, Iranian negotiators and the Islamist rebel group "Ahrar al-Sham". So, is a political solution to the Syrian conflict nigh? Unfortunately not. We are seeing three things here. Firstly, a contest between Russia and Iran over the question as to who has more influence in Syria and therefore carries more diplomatic weight. Secondly, the Assad regime's desperate, merciless plan to use the time before they are forced into negotiations to secure strategically significant areas in the west of the country. And thirdly, an hysterical fear of IS that dominates everything: the thinking in Washington and Europe, and the strategies and alliances in the region. The last of these is aggravated by a megalomaniac Turkish president, who is prepared to sacrifice an agreement on the Kurdish issue to his fantasies of omnipotence. Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/civil-war-in-syria-first-assad-then-islamic-state http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38581&lan=EN �oeListening to EU leaders, you could almost be forgiven for thinking there is no refugee crisis,” said Judith Sunderland, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. �oeInstead of bold collective action to live up to the EU’s obligations to refugees, the agenda focused on reinforcing borders, trying to stop people from getting here, and sending back those who do.” The seven-hour meeting produced a two-page statement that makes a nod to full implementation of the common European asylum system �" a set of binding laws to ensure harmonized procedures, recognition rates, and reception conditions. But the reality is that asylum seekers face a protection lottery in the EU due to wide disparities in standards and conditions, Human Rights Watch said. Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38581&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38575&lan=EN Europe is facing the biggest inflow of migrants in decades. The number of refugees from conflict zones in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere arriving at southern European shores is rising by the day. The resulting surge of asylum claims in the European Union (EU) have exposed divisions between EU member states over how to react. Governments in Central Europe and the Baltics have rejected the proposals by the European Commission to use mandatory quotas to distribute refugees across all 28 member states and come out against taking in significant numbers of refugees. But wait a minute. Opposition to immigration appears counterintuitive for countries that face the prospect of aging and rapid population declines. Tue, 22 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38575&lan=EN http://www.dw.com/en/the-summit-of-many-words-and-no-plans/a-18740247#disqus_thread EU leaders discussed the refugee crisis for seven hours without resolving the fundamental conflict between the eastern and western European countries with regard to the distribution of asylum seekers. They simply avoided the bone of contention - no one spoke about the distribution of refugees throughout Europe. "The climate was constructive," emphasized German Chancellor Angela Merkel, also noting that delegates agreed that the challenges can only be met together. She kept repeating how important and productive the summit with her European counterparts was. No wonder - she had insisted that they all convene. Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dw.com/en/the-summit-of-many-words-and-no-plans/a-18740247#disqus_thread http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38556&lan=EN Call this the Year of Border Walls. In 2015, Estonia, Hungary, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia all announced or began the construction of barriers on their frontiers. We may live in an era of globalization, but much of the world is increasingly focused on limiting the free movement of people. At the end of World War II, there were only five border walls around the world. Today, according to Elisabeth Vallet of the University of Quebec at Montreal, there are 65, three-quarters of them built in the past 20 years. And in the United States, Republican presidential candidates are promising more. The Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, has repeatedly proposed building a wall along the entire border with Mexico. And on a Sunday morning talk show, another Republican candidate, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, described building a wall on the US-Canada border as �oea legitimate issue for us to look at.” Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38556&lan=EN http://www.eutopiamagazine.eu/en/fran%C3%A7ois-de-bernard/speakers-corner/greece-mirror-stage-germany Any kind of stubborn persistence is suspicious and holds some sort of deeper meaning. German doggedness in favor of a Grexit is a case in point and must be mulled over. Indeed, we cannot content ourselves just by thinking that Wolfgang Schäuble and Sigmar Gabriel have simply lost their minds. IN BRIEF • German persistence in favor of Grexit demands serious attention • The "Greek case" reveals an inner conflict whose wellsprings are far upstream of being merely economic or political • Greece has become the mirror of Germany, as the one that exposes the foundations of Germany’s fake well-being Fri, 04 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.eutopiamagazine.eu/en/fran%C3%A7ois-de-bernard/speakers-corner/greece-mirror-stage-germany http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38517&lan=EN In his speech given in Havana (14.08.2015) the Secretary of State of the United States, John Kerry, established the actions that the Obama administration plans to execute with respect to Cuba, including the efforts realized and to be realized with the Congress, to attempt to achieve the lifting of the blockade. Some parts of the speech Mr. Kerry pronounced in Spanish, surely to avoid a modification in translation and so that the message would come directly to all those present. In Spanish he clearly stated: "We are neither enemies nor rivals, we are neighbours" Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38517&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38492&lan=EN Much ink has been spilled in the international press about BRICS. There is no doubt that the five party block has increased its participation in the world economy in recent years, competing directly with the United States and the European Union. Nevertheless, the details of the new development bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement indicate that its members are reluctant to abandon the orbit of the dollar in order, by so doing, to destroy the shell of the Bretton Woods Institutions. Wed, 15 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38492&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38472&lan=EN After 12 years of tedious negotiations, Iran and the �oeP5+1” countries (China, France, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, plus Germany) have reached a comprehensive agreement that will limit Iran’s development of its nuclear capabilities to non-military objectives. In exchange for its cooperation, Iran will eventually be relieved of the punishing sanctions that the United Nations, the European Union, and the US have imposed upon it for years. This is a huge diplomatic success. Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38472&lan=EN http://in.rbth.com/world/2015/06/29/brics_a_prototype_of_the_future_world_order_43949.html As Russia prepares to hold the BRICS summit in Ufa, among other issues up for discussion will be the future course of the organization. Russian analysts speak to RIR about what lies ahead for BRICS and why this �oeinterest group” has begun to play such a major role in Moscow’s foreign policy. Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://in.rbth.com/world/2015/06/29/brics_a_prototype_of_the_future_world_order_43949.html http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38424&lan=EN The rising crescendo of bickering and acrimony within Europe might seem to outsiders to be the inevitable result of the bitter endgame playing out between Greece and its creditors. In fact, European leaders are finally beginning to reveal the true nature of the ongoing debt dispute, and the answer is not pleasant: it is about power and democracy much more than money and economics. Of course, the economics behind the program that the �oetroika” (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund) foisted on Greece five years ago has been abysmal, resulting in a 25% decline in the country’s GDP. I can think of no depression, ever, that has been so deliberate and had such catastrophic consequences: Greece’s rate of youth unemployment, for example, now exceeds 60%. Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38424&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38414&lan=EN For Georgia the Western choice seems obvious. The country’s government is firmly committed to EU and NATO membership, despite the ruling Georgian Dream coalition's partial restoration of ties with Russia and last year’s sacking of pro-Western Defense Minister Irakli Alasania. Public opinion surveys show that society consistently and overwhelmingly favors closer ties with the West. Indeed, Georgia continues to sprint westward. But an increasing number of people are asking whether there really is gold in the Western hills. For everything the country has done to prove its commitment to the Euro-Atlantic cause, tangible results are far from evident. Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38414&lan=EN http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2015/0620/What-WikiLeaks-reveals-about-Saudi-diplomats-video Diplomatic documents published by WikiLeaks give a snapshot of the lavish spending habits of senior Saudi royals and the political intrigue percolating across the Middle East. At the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, diplomats talked about airing the grievances of disenchanted local youth using Facebook and Twitter. At the embassy in Khartoum, they reported anxiously on Iran's military aid to Sudan. Meanwhile the Saudi mission in Geneva was stuck dealing with a multi-million dollar limo bill racked up by a Saudi princess and her entourage. Sat, 20 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2015/0620/What-WikiLeaks-reveals-about-Saudi-diplomats-video http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38402&lan=EN The EU must critically re-assess its relations with Russia, which are profoundly damaged by Russia's deliberate violation of democratic principles, fundamental values and international law with its violent action and destabilisation of its neighbours , MEPs said on Wednesday. The EU must now devise a soft-power contingency plan to counter Russia’s aggressive and divisive policies, they said. Wed, 10 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38402&lan=EN http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-06/01/content_20870993.htm Senior Chinese officials have spoken harshly about US interference in the South China Sea situation as China talked about its commitment to regional stability at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore over the weekend. At the dialogue, Sun Jianguo, deputy chief of general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, voiced China's "firm opposition" to the United States as it has ignored history, legitimate reasons and fact, delivered a number of "alienating comments", and made false accusations over China's construction on territorial islands. Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-06/01/content_20870993.htm http://www.voxeurop.eu/en/content/article/4937568-unarmed-leaders Paris and Berlin have taken an assertive role in shaping the European response to Russia during the Ukraine crisis. But do France and Germany provide enough long-term leadership to turn the European Union into a true strategic power? Excerpts. Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.voxeurop.eu/en/content/article/4937568-unarmed-leaders http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/27/syria-iraq-western-boots-on-the-ground The sheer numbers are compelling. According to a new report from the UN security council, more than 25,000 foreign fighters are taking part in jihadi conflicts, with more and more joining in recent months. They come from more than 100 countries, meaning that half the countries in the world are providing volunteers for groups such as Islamic State and al-Qaida. If the fighting currently raging in Syria and Iraq cannot then be defined as an international, or at least internationalised conflict, it is hard to know what is. Wed, 27 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/27/syria-iraq-western-boots-on-the-ground http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/world/middleeast/netanyahu-wants-talks-with-palestinians-on-settlements-officials-say.html?ref=world Hinting at a new strategy as he starts his fourth term with a more conservative coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told the European Union’s foreign policy chief that he wants to negotiate with the Palestinians over which settlements in the occupied West Bank would be annexed by Israel, officials said Tuesday. Palestinian leaders quickly rejected the idea as a ploy to fend off mounting criticism of Israel and potential sanctions against it by Europe, saying that any new talks must tackle all issues on the table. Tue, 26 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/world/middleeast/netanyahu-wants-talks-with-palestinians-on-settlements-officials-say.html?ref=world http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/eu-riga-summit-eastern-partnership-by-carl-bildt-2015-05/french As the European Union’s leaders gather in Riga for a summit with the six members of the EU’s �oeEastern Partnership,” many recall the dramatic meeting in Vilnius of November 2013. It was there that Ukraine’s then-president, Viktor Yanukovych, under heavy Russian pressure, refused to sign the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement that had been negotiated from 2007 to 2012. Wed, 20 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/eu-riga-summit-eastern-partnership-by-carl-bildt-2015-05/french http://www.robert-schuman.eu/en/european-issues/0357-the-new-european-neighbourhood-policies-require-a-differentiated-and-politically-driven-approach In 2003 the Communication Wider Europe set out the European Neighbourhood Policy as follows: "the EU should aim to develop a zone of prosperity and a friendly neighbourhood - a 'ring of friends' - with whom the EU enjoys close, peaceful and co-operative relations. In return for concrete progress demonstrating shared values and effective implementation of political, economic and institutional reforms, including in aligning legislation with the acquis, the EU's neighbourhood should benefit from the prospect of closer economic integration with the EU." Since this text was drafted, a radically new geopolitical situation has emerged, typified by the Arab uprisings and a new Russian domestic and foreign policy. Even though this explains by and large the present issues experienced by the European neighbourhood policy, this new context should not mask the successes and the shortfalls of the latter. We might legitimately wonder about the rationale behind this geographic premise whereby all neighbouring countries enjoyed the same lay out and the same outlook simply because they were close by. Mon, 18 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.robert-schuman.eu/en/european-issues/0357-the-new-european-neighbourhood-policies-require-a-differentiated-and-politically-driven-approach http://en.qantara.de/content/the-syrian-conflict-the-illusion-of-a-political-solution There is much discussion in the West about a political solution to the conflict in Syria. But the reality is that the world is looking the other way, continuing to nurture the illusion that something is being done at international level and that the Syrian people have not been abandoned. Fri, 15 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/the-syrian-conflict-the-illusion-of-a-political-solution http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38299&lan=EN This May’s parade in Moscow to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II promises to be the greatest Victory Day celebration since the Soviet Union’s collapse. Some 16,000 soldiers, 200 armored vehicles, and 150 planes and helicopters are set to pass through and over Red Square. It will be a scene that would easily have been familiar to Soviet leaders like Leonid Brezhnev and Nikita Khrushchev, taking the salute atop Lenin’s tomb. Mon, 04 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38299&lan=EN http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/rebalancing-middle-east The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 empowered Iran as did the abrupt American departure in 2011. Since then the region has unraveled. Emma Sky, author and senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute, suggests that US regional policy narrowly focuses on three objectives: the defeat of the Islamic State, neutralization of other extremist groups and a nuclear agreement with Iran. Military force is not enough, and a pattern has emerged of weapons falling into the wrong hands. The US and others must help guide Iraq and other players in the region with greater engagement to address root problems, including inequality and corruption, while guiding citizens through a process of reconciliation, integration and economic diversification. Thu, 23 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/rebalancing-middle-east http://www.agenceglobal.com/index.php?show=article&Tid=2840 Perhaps the correct title should be "negotiators and their enemies." These days, negotiations are very much in the news. The United States is negotiating with Cuba, with Iran and, most recently it seems, with Venezuela. The government of Colombia is negotiating with a long-time anti-government movement, the FARC. Then, there are the pre-negotiations that may not get to the stage of negotiation: Russia and the European Union (and within that, the Kiev government of Ukraine and the "autonomist" governments in Donetsk and Lutsk); China and the United States; the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban. What does a focus on such negotiations, including those that are not taking place, tell us about the state of the world? Wed, 15 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.agenceglobal.com/index.php?show=article&Tid=2840 http://www.euractiv.fr/sections/euro-finances/berlin-rejette-les-demandes-de-reparation-de-la-grece-313608 Greece’s demands for WWII reparations from Germany, amid the debate over solving its debt problems, were met with criticism from Germany's Minister of Economic Affairs, and calls from the Greens for a ruling in the International Court of Justice. EurActiv Germany reports. Tue, 07 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.euractiv.fr/sections/euro-finances/berlin-rejette-les-demandes-de-reparation-de-la-grece-313608 http://thediplomat.com/2015/04/war-and-peace-in-asias-future/ The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, released an interesting report on the long-term security environment in the Asia-Pacific region. The report, which was commissioned by the U.S. government, is a regional strategic net assessment looking out twenty-five to thirty years. Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://thediplomat.com/2015/04/war-and-peace-in-asias-future/ http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/04/02/uk-iran-nuclear-idUKKBN0MQ0HF20150402 Iran and world powers reached a framework agreement on Thursday (3 April) on curbing Iran's nuclear programme for at least a decade, a step towards a comprehensive accord that could end 12 years of brinkmanship, threats and confrontation. The tentative agreement, after eight days of marathon talks in Switzerland, clears the way for talks on the future settlement that should allay Western fears that Iran was seeking to build an atomic bomb and in return lift economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/04/02/uk-iran-nuclear-idUKKBN0MQ0HF20150402 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38182&lan=EN Political reform is the most urgent challenge facing the six states of the Arab Gulf today. Despite their exceptional political stability during the Arab Spring of 2011, a fundamental structural imbalance exists between the pace of the states’ economic development and their political growth. This, coupled with emerging social forces, means that educated youth and women in particular have begun to demand reform across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). While the problems facing GCC States in this field are by and large the same, their collective failure to address demands for reform puts all of the states at a heightened internal security threat, affecting not only the individual states but the region as a whole. Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38182&lan=EN http://euobserver.com/political/128211 The leaders of France and Germany said that recent national tragedies have brought their two countries together in a sign that the Franco-German engine - notably off-track in recent years - may be back up and running. In a relatively upbeat press conference to mark the 17th annual meeting of ministers from the two governments both President Francois Hollande and Chancellor Angela Merkel referred to the Paris terror attacks in January and the crash of the Germanwings plane in the French alps earlier this month as having affected their bilateral relations. Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://euobserver.com/political/128211 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/world/middleeast/israel-denies-spying-on-iran-nuclear-talks.html?_r=0 Three top Israeli ministers denied a report that their intelligence services had spied on the closed-door negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, as tensions continued to mount between Washington and Jerusalem. �oeThere is no such thing as Israel spying on the Americans,” the defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, said at a pre-Passover toast, according to a transcript provided by his office. Mr. Yaalon said he had checked and found no complaint from the United States to Israeli intelligence services about such spying. �oeThere is a strict prohibition on that,” he said. Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/world/middleeast/israel-denies-spying-on-iran-nuclear-talks.html?_r=0 http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/middleeast/2015/03/arab-league-army-150313111904762.html The Arab League chief Nabil Al Arabi addressed delegates with a stark and potentially game changing request. "There is an urgent need for the creation of a multi-purpose common Arab military force," he said and although he didn't specify what the need was, it was clear that he was talking about the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). His words were met with murmured agreements. A logical move would be to build the force from a base of Egyptian forces, who have the largest standing arming in the league. But even that will be problematic given regional rivalries that have failed to agree on any kind of force since the idea was first mooted in 1965. Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/middleeast/2015/03/arab-league-army-150313111904762.html http://en.qantara.de/content/interview-with-sari-nusseibeh-israelis-and-palestinians-will-have-to-start-thinking Sari Nusseibeh is a Palestinian philosophy professor and was president of al-Quds University in Jerusalem from 1995 to 2014, where he still teaches. For many years, he was the most senior Palestinian official in East Jerusalem. In this interview with Sabine Peschel at the recent Goethe-Institut conference "Dialogue and the experience of the other" in Berlin, he speaks about Israeli�"Palestinian negotiations, the upcoming elections in Israel, the legacy of the Arab Spring and the rise of Islamic State Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/interview-with-sari-nusseibeh-israelis-and-palestinians-will-have-to-start-thinking http://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/03/04/netanyahus-speech-to-congress-was-polarizing-to-say-the-least/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s speech at a joint session of the US Congress was, to say the least, highly controversial. In his attempt to thwart a deal with Iran on nuclear weapons, Netanyahu was invited by Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives John Boehner. Netanyahu spoke for 39 minutes (eliciting 26 standing ovations), during which he said a US nuclear deal with Iran �oepaves its way to a[n atomic] bomb.” Meanwhile in Switzerland, US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Jawad Zarif announced progress on the nuclear talks, set to resume on March 15. Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/03/04/netanyahus-speech-to-congress-was-polarizing-to-say-the-least/ http://euobserver.com/opinion/127838 On 5 December 2014 oil prices hit a new five-year low. Since then, prices slumped further, dipping below the $50 mark, before bouncing back to a low $60 in late February after oil majors began announcing cuts in their capital expenditure. Some of the factors that led to 2014’s summer highs of US$110 per barrel have been removed: high demand, decreased supply and a strong US dollar. The US is now bringing online its oil resources and this is having a structural impact on global oil markets and will continue to do so this year - this will unnerve OPEC. Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://euobserver.com/opinion/127838 http://www.fox10tv.com/story/28245008/netanyahu-using-us-congress-speech-to-assail-iran-talks In a direct challenge to the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood before Congress on Tuesday (March 3) and bluntly warned the U.S. that an emerging nuclear agreement with Iran "paves Iran's path to the bomb." President Barack Obama pushed back sternly, saying the U.S. would never sign such a deal and Netanyahu was offering no useful alternative. Tue, 03 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.fox10tv.com/story/28245008/netanyahu-using-us-congress-speech-to-assail-iran-talks http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/150301030807010.html Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's president, plans to limit the US diplomatic presence in Venezuela and require American tourists to obtain visas, amid growing tensions between the two countries. Maduro said the measures aimed to "control" US meddling in Venezuelan affairs. Maduro has intensified his allegations of coup and assassination plans in recent months - often purportedly backed by the US - as he faces a deep economic crisis and a sharp drop in popularity. Sun, 01 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/150301030807010.html http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38061&lan=EN It’s true that in the last few years there has been an enormous decline on all fronts and in all areas. The world, Europe and Spain undoubtedly suffer its effects. Our political leaders have surrendered to the rules of the markets and obediently subject our society to �oeaustericide.” It is irrelevant that their formulas don’t work and that there’s no end in sight to their budget cuts. Spaniards are now �oecheaper” than a majority of the rest of Europeans. With the worsening of our standard of living we are also (paradoxically) more submissive, accepting whatever they impose. But not all of us, because a new type of citizen power is emerging that is so strong that it provokes much fear among members of the �oeestablishment.” Perfectly aware of what this means, they are attempting to stop this trend by any and all means at their disposal. Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38061&lan=EN http://en.qantara.de/content/the-wests-strategy-in-the-middle-east-hollow-alliance The fact that the West is reflecting on the best form of government for the nations of the Middle East is nothing new; it has been doing so in good orientalist tradition since Napoleon invaded Egypt. Nevertheless, Western notions of what constitutes the ideal form of governance for this region have never changed as frequently or as radically as they have in the past 15 years. For a while, fear of the "eastern masses" and a "genuine eastern state model" such as that of Ayatollah Khomeini meant that leaders in the US and Europe backed dictators who were inwardly staunch and outwardly reliable. Hosni Mubarak was a prime example of this. Gaddafi and Assad too looked as if they had the potential to grow into this role. Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/the-wests-strategy-in-the-middle-east-hollow-alliance http://www.tokyofoundation.org/en/articles/2015/nato-asia-partnership Japan and NATO have been referred to as natural partners sharing fundamental values, and they are being drawn closer together by what they can offer each other in terms of legitimacy and enhanced capabilities. In this paper originally prepared for the "Euro-Atlantic Meets Asia-Pacific" conference in Vancouver, organized by NATO Defense College and Simon Fraser University in November 2014, Senior Fellow Tsuneo Watanabe outlines the mutual benefits of a closer security partnership for regional stability. Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tokyofoundation.org/en/articles/2015/nato-asia-partnership http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/12/ukraine-ceasefire-aims-pave-way-comprehensive-settlement-crisis A ceasefire in eastern Ukraine intended to pave the way for a comprehensive political settlement of the country’s crisis has been agreed in Minsk following a fraught 16 hours of overnight negotiations between the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and France. The marathon summit in the Belarus capital resulted in a pact early on Thursday providing for a ceasefire between Ukrainian government troops and Russian-backed separatists from Sunday, the withdrawal of heavy weaponry from the battle zone, which is to be demilitarised, amnesties on both sides and exchanges of prisoners and hostages. Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/12/ukraine-ceasefire-aims-pave-way-comprehensive-settlement-crisis http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31410009 The urgency of making sure a ceasefire happens, and holds will only serve to intensify the debate in the US about how to deal with Vladimir Putin. President to president, Barack Obama has told Putin "the cost will rise" if Russia continues its aggression in Ukraine. But he hasn't spelt out what that means. And that matters a lot. The Washington debate over arming Ukraine cuts to the conundrum at the heart of President Obama's foreign policy. It is smart, it is strategic - and it isn't working. President Obama says "a decision has not yet been made" whether to beef up Ukraine's military with advanced US weapons. But he has said it is a possibility. Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31410009 http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-02-12/news/59083660_1_unsc-permanent-member-east-china-sea China today said it respects the aspirations of India and Brazil to play bigger roles at the UN Security Council, while keeping mum on Japan's candidature. About the Indian and Brazilian applications to become permanent members, China respects the willingness of the two countries to play a bigger role in the UN body, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said. Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-02-12/news/59083660_1_unsc-permanent-member-east-china-sea http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38023&lan=EN Once again, Europe seems to have reached a fork in the road. In one direction lies the future as described by pessimists, who argue that rising populist movements and the plunge of the euro are evidence of the continent’s coming slide into geopolitical and economic oblivion. In the other direction lies a steep upward path to Europe’s integration and reemergence as a global power �" the course, optimists say, that the continent will take as it wakes up and recognizes that it must have the capacity to weather the harshest storms. Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=38023&lan=EN http://www.dw.de/ukraine-crisis-exposes-transatlantic-rift/a-18243536 The escalating crisis in Ukraine has served as something of a stress test for transatlantic unity. It was evident again on the last day of the Munich Security Conference that there are big divisions among Western powers. Sun, 08 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dw.de/ukraine-crisis-exposes-transatlantic-rift/a-18243536 http://thediplomat.com/2015/01/china-the-influence-of-history/ As China’s power and influence continue to grow in Asia and beyond, many analysts look to Chinese history to understand how a strong China will behave and view the world in the future. Many of these attempts to apply an historical lens engage in gross simplifications and misreadings of the relevance and meaning of hundreds of years of Chinese thought and behavior. China is often viewed, incorrectly, as if it existed as a monolithic whole over centuries, possessed the same political and security outlook at each stage of its development, and behaved as a modern nation state does today. In particular, some observers blithely assert that China always sought to dominate its world in hard power terms, often succeeded in doing so, and will naturally seek such a position of dominance in the future. Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://thediplomat.com/2015/01/china-the-influence-of-history/ http://thediplomat.com/2015/01/is-china-bidding-for-the-heartland/ In his 1919 masterpiece, Democratic Ideals and Reality, the great British geographer Halford Mackinder identified the northern-central core of the Eurasian landmass as the �oeHeartland” �" a geopolitical region from which a sufficiently populated, armed and organized great power could bid for a world empire. Mackinder’s Heartland stretched from central Europe east of the Black and Baltic Seas to eastern Siberia, Mongolia, a small part of northeastern China, and included all of Central Asia. A Heartland-based power could expand in all directions and was inaccessible to sea power. Most of China occupied a portion of what Mackinder called the �oeinner crescent,” a semicircular territory bordering the Heartland, but which had access to the sea. Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://thediplomat.com/2015/01/is-china-bidding-for-the-heartland/ http://euobserver.com/foreign/127287 Even Russia’s friends, for the most part, showed little appetite for relaxing sanctions in �oestrategic” EU talks in Brussels. Summing up the debate, EU foreign relations chief Federica Mogherini told press there was a �oeconsensus” they should stay in place until Russia pulls back from east Ukraine. She said ministers are happy to talk to Russia on �oeglobal” issues, such as counter-terrorism or climate change. But with fighting flaring up in Ukraine and with Kiev reporting that two battalions of Russian troops invaded its territory as the ministers were meeting in the EU capital, she added that �oethe latest developments on the ground are not encouraging” in terms of EU-Russia ties. Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://euobserver.com/foreign/127287 http://en.qantara.de/content/the-middle-east-in-2014-new-regional-power-games The Middle East has undergone fundamental change in 2014. For decades previously, the US and Europe maintained good relations with Israel and Saudi Arabia. As a NATO partner, Turkey was already on side. The troublemaker and "rogue state" Iran was isolated after the Islamic Revolution. And to make absolutely certain of stability in the Middle East, troops were stationed in the region and aircraft carriers sent to traverse the waters. Then suddenly a jihadist group emerged to capture large swathes of territory and declare a caliphate in the heart of this region. The "Islamic State" was born, putting an end to the status quo. No event of the past decade has made it so clear that the political destiny of the region can no longer be manipulated in the interests of the West. Mon, 05 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/the-middle-east-in-2014-new-regional-power-games http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37898&lan=EN �oeFrance’s 9/11.” In the immediate aftermath of the massacre at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the comparison with Al Qaeda’s 2001 attack on the United States has taken hold across France. Indeed, the January 7 attack was the most murderous France has known since the end of the Algerian War in 1962. But how accurate is the analogy? Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37898&lan=EN http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raghida-dergham/palestines-accession-to-t_b_6440832.html The State of Palestine's strategy of joining the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a qualitatively new approach to the bilateral negotiations with Israel and the US brokerage of the "peace process." This strategy does not undermine the pursuit of a two-state solution, which is the title of the international consensus for a peaceful solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Rather, the strategy puts everyone before the test of choosing between the earnest implementation of the two-state solution, or putting the Israeli occupation and settlements on trial before international courts. Thu, 08 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raghida-dergham/palestines-accession-to-t_b_6440832.html http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37875&lan=EN The governments of Cuba and the United States want to rebuild diplomatic ties, reestablish trade relations, and reopen lines of communication that have been frozen for over fifty of years. The news is almost unreal, like a dream. But we heard it, from the leaders of both nations. In a live speech televised from the White House, Barack Obama described how the two governments worked together over the last 18 months to negotiate the changes. On Cuban state television, in an address that was transcribed and published by Cubadebate, Raul Castro thanked the Vatican and the government of Canada for supporting the delicate process. Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37875&lan=EN http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/04/us-russia-era-nuclear-rivalry A widening rift between Moscow and Washington over cruise missiles and increasingly daring patrols by nuclear-capable Russian submarines threatens to end an era of arms control and bring back a dangerous rivalry between the world’s two dominant nuclear arsenals. Tensions have been taken to a new level by US threats of retaliatory action for Russian development of a new cruise missile. Washington alleges it violates one of the key arms control treaties of the cold war, and has raised the prospect of redeploying its own cruise missiles in Europe after a 23-year absence. Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/04/us-russia-era-nuclear-rivalry http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/01/world/asia/north-korea-leader-seeks-meeting-with-south.html In a nationally televised New Year’s speech, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, said that he was open to holding a summit meeting with the South Korean president, proclaiming his willingness to make a �oebig shift” in the tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Mr. Kim was apparently responding to an overture by South Korea to resume high-level dialogue. He spent much of the annual 30-minute speech, his third since taking control of the isolated Communist country, calling for improved relations between the rival Koreas. Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/01/world/asia/north-korea-leader-seeks-meeting-with-south.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/world/europe/ukraine-parliament-nato-vote.html?_r=0 With a Russian-backed separatist insurgency still gripping eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian Parliament voted on December, 23 to take steps toward joining NATO. It was a pointed rebuke to Russia that immediately drew an angry response. The Parliament, firmly controlled by a pro-Western majority, voted overwhelmingly, 303 to 8, to rescind a policy of �oenonalignment” and to instead pursue closer military and strategic ties with the West. Tue, 23 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/world/europe/ukraine-parliament-nato-vote.html?_r=0 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37837&lan=EN The price of oil has fallen more than 25% in the past five months, to less than $80 a barrel. If the price remains at this level, it will have important implications �" some good, some bad �" for many countries around the world. If it falls further, as seems likely, the geopolitical consequences on some oil-producing countries could be dramatic. Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37837&lan=EN http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/17/pope-us-cuba-vatican-diplomacy The re-opening of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba is the biggest success for the Vatican’s ultra-discreet diplomacy for at least 30 years. As the leaders of both countries acknowledged in their statements, Pope Francis and his envoys had played key roles in healing the breach. The only comparable success for papal mediation was in 1984 when Vatican diplomats helped to end a potentially explosive border dispute between Chile and Argentina over the possession of three strategically located islands in the Beagle channel at the southern tip of South America. Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/17/pope-us-cuba-vatican-diplomacy http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30528316 World leaders have welcomed a historic move by the US to end more than 50 years of hostility towards Cuba and restore diplomatic relations. Pope Francis joined leaders from Latin America and Europe in praising the "historic" deal which saw the release of prisoners from both countries. But dozens of dissident Cubans oppose the move, which some Republicans have labelled a "retreat" by the US. US-Cuban ties have been frozen since the early 1960s. Thu, 18 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30528316 http://euobserver.com/opinion/126790 As I listened, earlier this year, to the final speech by Stefan Fuele, the former commissioner for neighbourhood policy, in which he mentioned the necessity of building a free-trade zone from Vancouver to Vladivostok, I thought to myself: �oeThese must be merely personal considerations by an outgoing commissioner”. However, at this week’s meetings in Brussels of members of the European Parliament and national parliaments with Federica Mogherini, the high representative for foreign policy, and with Johannes Hahn, Fuele’s successor, I saw that this idea really does haunt the corridors of Brussels. Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://euobserver.com/opinion/126790 http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/war-in-ukraine-a-result-of-misunderstandings-between-europe-and-russia-a-1004706.html One year ago, negotations over a Ukraine association agreement with the European Union collapsed. The result has been a standoff with Russia and war in the Donbass. It was an historical failure, and one that German Chancellor Angela Merkel contributed to. Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/war-in-ukraine-a-result-of-misunderstandings-between-europe-and-russia-a-1004706.html http://en.qantara.de/content/international-conspiracy-theories-and-xenophobia-in-turkey-turkey-alone-against-the-world Turkey appears to be in the grip of a wave of xenophobia, according to the results of a recent survey by the US-based Pew Research Foundation. The findings come as the country has to cope with two conflicts on its borders and faces increasingly strained relations with key allies and neighbours. But as Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul, the findings could be part of a far deeper historical fear of the West. Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/international-conspiracy-theories-and-xenophobia-in-turkey-turkey-alone-against-the-world http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37767&lan=EN The epicentre of the new world order is to be found in the strategic alliance between China and Russia. Between them they are proving capable of engaging Eurasia, which is the foremost sign of the decline of the West, and in particular, of the United States. Fri, 28 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37767&lan=EN http://www.robert-schuman.eu/fr/questions-d-europe/0334-la-moldavie-a-l-heure-de-la-crise-en-ukraine Over the last few years Moldova has stood as the "success story" of the Eastern Partnership - even though there are still many reforms to be made, e.g. on corruption and institutional reforms. This model remains however extremely fragile for economic, political and geopolitical reasons. This is why Moldova has found itself in a difficult position during the crisis in Ukraine, which, apart from dividing public opinion, is also a source of fear over the sovereignty of Transnistria. The future of Moldova is still open as the electoral outcomes on 30th November are still uncertain, leaving the country with several scenarios. Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.robert-schuman.eu/fr/questions-d-europe/0334-la-moldavie-a-l-heure-de-la-crise-en-ukraine http://rt.com/op-edge/208595-iran-nuclear-talks-vienna/ The P5+1 and Iran are negotiating under the November 2013 Geneva Joint Plan of Action �" which calls for a freeze of some aspects of Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, but not all sanctions. After all some of these illegal sanctions have absolutely nothing to do with the Iranian nuclear program, and must be lifted by the US Congress. Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://rt.com/op-edge/208595-iran-nuclear-talks-vienna/ http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9-284941-Return-of-geopolitics A dominant theme at the recent World Economic Forum summit was that the return of geopolitics, turbulence and volatility were combining to shape today’s fraught strategic environment. As the eruption of crisis and tensions in the Middle East, Ukraine and East Asia have demonstrated, 2014 has been characterised by political and economic turmoil and instability, with uncertainty casting a shadow over the opportunities offered by the world. Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9-284941-Return-of-geopolitics http://www.neweasterneurope.eu/articles-and-commentary/1387-poland-on-the-frontlines-of-the-ukraine-crisis Poland is one of the countries most affected by changes in the global and regional security environment resulting from the Ukrainian crisis. The growing instability in Ukraine, increasingly negative dynamics of bi-lateral relations with Russia and ambiguous international reactions to the annexation of Crimea and de facto secession of Donbas pose several significant challenges for Warsaw. Tue, 04 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.neweasterneurope.eu/articles-and-commentary/1387-poland-on-the-frontlines-of-the-ukraine-crisis http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/17/putin-claims-west-provoking-russia-new-cold-war-spies-deported Vladimir Putin has suggested to a German interviewer that the west is provoking Russia into a new cold war. The airing of the interview, which was recorded by the German channel ARD in Vladivostok, followed Russia’s tit-for-tat expulsions of German and Polish diplomats, as well as the deportation of a Latvian accused of spying. Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/17/putin-claims-west-provoking-russia-new-cold-war-spies-deported http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/11/19/china-diplomacy-idINKCN0J22EQ20141119 From a military rules-of-the-road agreement with Washington to $20 billion in loans for Southeast Asia, Beijing has set aside the tensions of recent years to present a softer side to the world in the last week. But proof of whether President Xi Jinping is serious about narrowing differences that have marked his first two years in office will depend on how China's festering disputes are managed in the months ahead. Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/11/19/china-diplomacy-idINKCN0J22EQ20141119 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/so-why-is-there-such-an-explosion-of-violence-across-the-middle-east-9831970.html What on earth has descended upon the Middle East? Why such an epic explosion of violence? It feels strange to ask these questions of Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, one of President Bashar al-Assad’s close advisers and former translator to his father, Hafez. Her office is spotless, flowers on the table, her female secretary preparing a morning round-up of the world’s press on the Middle East, the coffee hot and sweet. At one point, when she spoke of the destruction in Syria and the mass attacks on the region’s Arab armies, it was difficult to believe that this was Damascus and that a few hundred miles to the east Isis have been cutting the throats of their hostages. Indeed, Shaaban finds it difficult even to define what Isis really is. Fri, 31 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/so-why-is-there-such-an-explosion-of-violence-across-the-middle-east-9831970.html http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/joerg-friedrich--2/9192-reorganizing-the-european-landscape The excitement around the Scottish independence referendum has subsided, but the problem remains that ethnic groups and national minorities question state structures in Europe. Only for a few European countries do the state borders coincide with the distribution areas of national identities. The notion of the nation state �" strictly speaking �" is deceptive. Sovereign states are contingent entities in Europe: On the one hand, they break cultural connections; on the other hand, they combine �" and often poorly �" communities which differ in traditions, habits, and values under the same roof of a legal, economic, and political organization. It is time to think about the future political map of Europe. Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/joerg-friedrich--2/9192-reorganizing-the-european-landscape http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-doesnt-want-a-frozen-conflict-in-ukraine-2014-11 Moscow’s Ukraine policy has been driven primarily by geopolitical concerns rather than fear of democratic contagion. Above all, the Kremlin has been, and remains, determined to keep Ukraine out of NATO. It is only slightly less determined to keep Ukraine out of the European Union and to prevent NATO from building up its eastern defenses. Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-doesnt-want-a-frozen-conflict-in-ukraine-2014-11 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37660&lan=EN What a difference 25 years can make. In 1989, Central and Eastern Europe embarked upon a historic transformation, from authoritarian communism to democratic capitalism. With memories of the old system already beginning to fade, it seems fitting to look back at the region’s achievements, review the lessons learned, and examine the challenges ahead. Fri, 07 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37660&lan=EN http://thediplomat.com/2014/11/india-pakistan-relations-a-destructive-equilibrium/ The seven-decade rivalry between India and Pakistan is often portrayed as intractable �" with good reason. The countries were birthed out of a bloody partition that encouraged each to define itself in opposition to the other, and they have fought four wars since. Sun, 02 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://thediplomat.com/2014/11/india-pakistan-relations-a-destructive-equilibrium/ http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/14277/the-international-order-faces-a-fateful-and-perilous-winter?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter How three presidents�"Barack Obama, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin�"and one institution�"the European Union�"grapple with and navigate the political challenges they will face this winter will have a profound impact in shaping global politics in the years to come. The decisions that are taken, or deferred, will determine whether current assumptions about the international order are reconfirmed or discarded. Mon, 27 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/14277/the-international-order-faces-a-fateful-and-perilous-winter?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/142305/gilbert-rozman/asia-for-the-asians Recently, China and Russia have challenged the international order by giving each other diplomatic backing to confront Ukraine and Hong Kong, respectively. But Western observers have mostly misunderstood the countries' reasons for building closer ties with each other. They have been motivated less by shared material interests than by a common sense of national identity that defines itself in opposition to the West and in support of how each views the legacy of traditional communism. Moscow and Beijing have disagreements about the future order they envision for their regions. But they agree that the geopolitical order of the East should be in opposition to that of the West�"and that has led to significantly closer bilateral relations. Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/142305/gilbert-rozman/asia-for-the-asians http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37610&lan=EN Vladimir Putin took part in the final plenary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club’s XI session. The meeting’s theme is The World Order: New Rules or a Game without Rules. This year, 108 experts, historians and political analysts from 25 countries, including 62 foreign participants, took part in the club’s work. Fri, 24 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37610&lan=EN http://in.rbth.com/blogs/2014/10/17/welcome_to_the_new_world_order_39109.html Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://in.rbth.com/blogs/2014/10/17/welcome_to_the_new_world_order_39109.html http://www.robert-schuman.eu/en/european-issues/0328-the-acceleration-of-differentiated-integration-and-enhanced-cooperation Until the mid-80's, European integration was characterised by a "unity dogma". All Member States were supposed to apply the same policies, at the same speed. The concepts of "Europe à la carte", "variable geometry" and "different speeds" were put in the same basket. No derogation was possi-ble, unless justified, limited and temporary. During the following 30 years however, since the mid 80's, heterogeneity between members has grown formidably. Differentiation thus became unavoid-able to allow those able and willing, to go further. Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.robert-schuman.eu/en/european-issues/0328-the-acceleration-of-differentiated-integration-and-enhanced-cooperation http://thediplomat.com/2014/10/can-china-and-india-cooperate-in-afghanistan/ Afghanistan is going out of fashion among governments in the West, as attention shifts to a disintegrating Middle East and a new battlefront in Eastern Europe. But something may be moving in to fill the void. China and India held their first bilateral talks on Afghanistan in April 2013, and discussed the issue most recently during Xi Jinping’s visit to New Delhi last week, where both sides agreed to �oestrengthen strategic dialogue” on building �oepeace, stability and prosperity in Afghanistan,” which was identified as a �oeshared interest.” Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://thediplomat.com/2014/10/can-china-and-india-cooperate-in-afghanistan/ http://www.globalresearch.ca/de-dollarization-europe-and-china-start-direct-trading-in-euros-and-renmibi/5405337 De-dollarization has been an ongoing theme hidden just below the surface of the mainstream media for more than a year as Russia and China slowly but surely attempt to �oeisolate” the US Dollar. Until very recently, direct trade agreements with China (in other words, bypassing the US Dollar exchange in bilateral trade) had been with smaller trade partners. On the heels of Western pressure, Russia and China were forced closer together and de-dollarization accelerated from Turkey to Argentina as an increasing number of countries around the world realize the importance of this chart. Tue, 30 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.globalresearch.ca/de-dollarization-europe-and-china-start-direct-trading-in-euros-and-renmibi/5405337 http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-liberal-international-order-dying-11351 President Obama’s speech to the United Nations was a spirited defense of the current world order and America’s role within that order. It was an acknowledgement that the liberal internationalist status quo is far from invulnerable and, in fact, is gravely under threat; and a warning that the widening and deepening of international cooperation, peace and security require good intentions and assiduous effort on behalf of nations. Today’s relatively benign world order is the result of farsighted decision-making by past leaders, Obama told his audience; its maintenance is now the charge of today’s generation. Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-liberal-international-order-dying-11351 http://www.mintpressnews.com/record-gas-project-depends-diplomatic-balancing-act/196735/ The world’s largest ever gas deal would transport fuel from Central Asia to Southern Europe, but the most impressive facet of the deal may be Azerbaijan’s ability to simultaneously please Europe, Iran and Russia. Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mintpressnews.com/record-gas-project-depends-diplomatic-balancing-act/196735/ http://nationalinterest.org/feature/d%C3%A9tente-denied-why-saudi-arabia-iran-can%E2%80%99t-move-forward-11320 Despite the apparent diplomatic �oegreen shoots” between Iran and Saudi Arabia, these two Persian Gulf petro-powers are not strategically poised for détente any time soon. Mon, 22 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://nationalinterest.org/feature/d%C3%A9tente-denied-why-saudi-arabia-iran-can%E2%80%99t-move-forward-11320 http://www.friendsofeurope.org/Contentnavigation/Publications/Libraryoverview/tabid/1186/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3829/Why-Global-Europe-must-change-in-an-anxious-age.aspx Federica Mogherini’s appointment as the new European Union foreign policy chief offers an opportunity for an overhaul of EU foreign and security policy. With many EU leaders, ministers and senior officials slow to respond to world events given Europe’s traditionally long summer break, the 2014 summer of death and violence has left the reputation of �oeGlobal Europe” in tatters, highlighting the EU’s apparent disconnect from the bleak reality surrounding it. When she takes charge in November along with other members of the new European Commission, led by Jean-Claude Juncker, Mogherini’s first priority must be to restore Europe’s credibility in an increasingly volatile and chaotic global landscape. Thu, 04 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.friendsofeurope.org/Contentnavigation/Publications/Libraryoverview/tabid/1186/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3829/Why-Global-Europe-must-change-in-an-anxious-age.aspx http://www.e-ir.info/2014/09/16/eu-china-africa-trilateral-relations-a-new-trend-in-international-relations/ In the context of an emerging multipolar international system, the growing influence of China in Africa deserves special attention. The intensification of Sino-African relations bears important consequences for the European Union, which traditionally considers Africa as its own backyard. As relations between China and Africa are developing rapidly, the EU is realising that if it wants to remain a relevant international player, it needs to refocus attention on the African continent while expanding its relations with China. Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/09/16/eu-china-africa-trilateral-relations-a-new-trend-in-international-relations/ http://www.mintpressnews.com/new-geopolitical-landscapes-create-room-iran-us-business-relations/196582/ Iran is gearing up for an anticipated �oepost-sanctions” era that could usher in increased investment in its oil sector. That investment could be coming sooner than expected, though, as shifting geopolitical terrain shows a need for mended U.S.-Iran relations. Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mintpressnews.com/new-geopolitical-landscapes-create-room-iran-us-business-relations/196582/ http://nationalinterest.org/feature/mongolia-the-next-asian-tiger-11276 The news of July’s agreement in principle of the Mongolia-Japan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was merely another addition to Tokyo’s stable of trade agreements in Asia. But for Mongolia, the trade pact with Japan is of far more significance�"and not merely because it was with the world’s third largest economy. The conclusion of negotiations represents Mongolia’s official entry into East Asia’s proliferation of trade agreements, as this is the country’s first FTA. Meanwhile, Ulaanbaatar is also studying proposed agreements with South Korea and China. Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://nationalinterest.org/feature/mongolia-the-next-asian-tiger-11276 http://www.leap2020.net/euro-brics/2014/09/12/new-cold-war-poses-dilemmas-for-india-2/ Neelam Deo, Director, Gateway House, talks about the significance of the position taken by NATO member countries at the recent summit in Wales. She says the increasingly acrimonious standoff between the West and Russia over Ukraine, and the stance on the Islamic State has implications for India. Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.leap2020.net/euro-brics/2014/09/12/new-cold-war-poses-dilemmas-for-india-2/ http://www.e-ir.info/2014/09/12/islamic-state-the-arab-spring-and-the-disenchantment-with-political-islam/ Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood being supported by a large part of the population despite the strong government repression it exercises, Islamist Militia haunting a barely existing central government in Libya, and various Jihadi groups playing a crucial role in the Syrian civil war all seem to be closely related to Political Islam. Above all, it is the sudden and strong presence of Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria which adds most to the impression about a new era of dominance of Political Islam. However, developments like the success of the social protests in Northern Africa in ousting their autocratic governments as well as the image of Islamist militia in Libya, Syria, and Iraq as being a sectarian and self-serving actor may have brought about disenchantment with Political Islam as means for social and political justice. That being the case, Political Islam may face a significant decline in influencing national, regional and global events in the near future. Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/09/12/islamic-state-the-arab-spring-and-the-disenchantment-with-political-islam/ http://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/10/will-scots-heed-ancient-call-for-freedom/ The Sept. 18 referendum on Scottish independence pits the ancient lure of freedom from English dominance against practical economic issues of the future. Continued union seemed to be winning but a late surge for separation has made the outcome a toss-up, as Don North reports. Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/10/will-scots-heed-ancient-call-for-freedom/ http://www.mintpressnews.com/islamic-state-finding-foothold-pakistan/196344/ Amid domestic political turmoil and military forces already battling to push out Taliban factions, the time is ripe for the ISIS to make inroads in Pakistan. But is the militant group even Pakistan’s biggest potential threat? Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mintpressnews.com/islamic-state-finding-foothold-pakistan/196344/ http://en.qantara.de/content/western-sahara-conflict-the-curse-of-resources In times of economic crisis and rising unemployment in North Africa, Western Sahara's natural resources have become fiercely contested treasures. The new balance of power resulting from recent political developments in the region could lead to a renegotiation of the conflict. Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/western-sahara-conflict-the-curse-of-resources http://www.leap2020.net/euro-brics/2014/09/05/the-euro-russia-row-as-a-result-of-an-overlap-between-two-economic-unions-lessons-for-a-multipolar-world-in-the-wake-2/ The Euro-BRICS project firmly believes that the emergence of a multipolar world is a heavy trend that should be welcome and accompanied rather than feared and contained. Indeed LEAP bases its work on an original prospective method (political anticipation) which, among other features, intends to help detect unavoidable trends, identify future-bearer paths amidst these trends and define adaptation strategies for systems to find their way through these positive futures. One of our predicates is that containing heavy trends leads to violence, whether economic, social or military. Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.leap2020.net/euro-brics/2014/09/05/the-euro-russia-row-as-a-result-of-an-overlap-between-two-economic-unions-lessons-for-a-multipolar-world-in-the-wake-2/ http://euobserver.com/economic/125441 Finland would experience gas shortages even if Russia cut off exports just for one month, while other EU countries would last between three to nine months without Russian gas, according to a German study. Wed, 03 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://euobserver.com/economic/125441 http://www.eurasiareview.com/02092014-will-power-shift-bring-turkish-politics-turkey-russia-relations-analysis/ Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the first publicly held presidential elections in the first round, albeit with a narrow margin of 1.7 per cent. In the aftermath of the elections, Erdogan and the AK Party have chosen to delay the debates on the shift of power as it relates to the government and to the leadership of the party. Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.eurasiareview.com/02092014-will-power-shift-bring-turkish-politics-turkey-russia-relations-analysis/ http://www.e-ir.info/2014/09/01/putin-in-latin-america-a-new-era-of-cooperation/ Russian President Vladimir Putin undertook a six-day visit to four countries in Latin America from 11 to 16 July. His tour came at a time when both Russia and the countries he visited (Cuba, Nicaragua, Argentina, and Brazil ) were looking for diplomatic support. Russia, of course, is facing sizeable opposition from the West for its intervention in Ukraine. Thus, Russia is keen to deepen its ties with other parts of the world and in Latin America several countries have given their support to Russia, and many have long-standing links with Russia and before that the Soviet Union. Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/09/01/putin-in-latin-america-a-new-era-of-cooperation/ http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-humanitarian-war-against-libya-how-the-west-destroys-countries-and-creates-failed-states/5397988 While Libya lies in flames, with thousands of men, women and children, driven by desperation, trying every day to cross the Mediterranean - and many of them will lose their lives �" Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano issues this warning: �oeBeware of the outbreaks all around us,” starting with the �oepersistent instability and fragility of the situation in Libya.” Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-humanitarian-war-against-libya-how-the-west-destroys-countries-and-creates-failed-states/5397988 http://cadtm.org/Leadership-des-Etats-Unis-sur-la The concept of the World as a huge bureaucracy, gradually freed from the influence of the US, is actually a far cry from reality. This mistaken conception is revealed in particular by the North American environmentalist Bruce Rich in his insightful book on the World Bank. Thu, 28 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://cadtm.org/Leadership-des-Etats-Unis-sur-la http://www.robert-schuman.eu/fr/oee/1530-le-choix-probable-des-ecossais-de-rester-au-sein-du-royaume-uni-ne-devrait-cependant-pas-signer-la-fin-du-processus-d-autonomisation "Should Scotland be an independent country?", this is question that 4 million voters living in Scotland will have to answer, with either "yes" or "no" on 18th September (people born in Scotland but not registered on the electoral rolls are not allowed to vote whilst those born in England but living in Scotland will be able to vote) - this affects around 500,000 Britons living in Scotland and 800,000 Scots living in England. Young people aged 16 to 18 are also allowed to vote in this referendum. Unlike the 1997 referendum, there is no minimum turnout threshold required for the validation of this election. Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.robert-schuman.eu/fr/oee/1530-le-choix-probable-des-ecossais-de-rester-au-sein-du-royaume-uni-ne-devrait-cependant-pas-signer-la-fin-du-processus-d-autonomisation http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/25/rethinking-change-and-continuity-in-japanese-defense-policy-and-politics/ The recent changes in Japan’s defense posture have been a long time coming. In a sense, they represent the natural continuation of gradual adjustments Japan has been making since the end of the Cold War (and in a sense, an evolution that has been occurring since the ratification of Japan’s postwar constitution). The most recent changes �" the creation of the National Security Council, a slight bump in defense expenditures, revisions to the ban on arms exports, and the proposed reinterpretation of the constitution to allow for limited collective self defense �" can be seen as a continuation of earlier modifications. As Corey Wallace has written, these changes represent an �oeevolution” rather than revolution in Japanese military affairs. Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/25/rethinking-change-and-continuity-in-japanese-defense-policy-and-politics/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37352&lan=EN While Latin America and the Caribbean, over the last decade, have made progress in their quest for regional integration, especially at the political level, under principles of autonomy, sovereignty and cooperation, it is worthy of attention that this process is scarcely reflected in the area of communication: neither in the media, nor in public policy, nor in the academy, despite this being the �oecommunication era.” Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37352&lan=EN http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/21/the-islamic-states-challenge-to-the-international-system/ The Islamic State in Iraq and Sham, or �oeIslamic State”, is a square challenge to the international system. The State is actually stateless: it is a cross-border phenomenon with leadership that is translating its military momentum into recruiting momentum in order to firmly root the proclaimed Caliphate from northern Iraq through eastern Syria and beyond any border. Its rapid rise and strength presents a challenge to the Westphalian era of international affairs. Thu, 21 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/21/the-islamic-states-challenge-to-the-international-system/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37334&lan=EN Ecuador is committed to protecting persons subject to political persecution. Two years ago, after a profound investigation and review of our legal obligations, we decided to give political asylum to Julian Assange. Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37334&lan=EN http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/referendum-news/english-say-scots-will-pay-a-heavy-price-for-referendum.25092377 Voters south of the Border want a cut to Scottish annual public spending of almost £1,400 per person if there is a No vote, and a refusal to share the pound in the event of independence. Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/referendum-news/english-say-scots-will-pay-a-heavy-price-for-referendum.25092377 http://orientalreview.org/2014/08/22/washingtons-nightmare-comes-true-the-russian-chinese-strategic-partnership-goes-global-ii/ It is now time to segue into the geopolitical applications of the RCSP. This section will begin with Northeast Asia and then proceed counterclockwise into exploring the dual approaches towards Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. It will then move on to Europe before looking at the Mideast/North Africa (MENA) and Latin America. It is only in Africa where the RCSP has yet to mature, although the possibilities most certainly are there for China to invite Russia’s balancing influence into the continent in the future and to influence regional leaders to expand their trade ties with Moscow. Finally, the conclusion will unify the article and demonstrate that the RCSP is truly the most important relationship of the 21st century and the definitive vehicle for multipolarity. Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://orientalreview.org/2014/08/22/washingtons-nightmare-comes-true-the-russian-chinese-strategic-partnership-goes-global-ii/ http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/15/a-transnational-public-sphere-for-a-digital-generation/ The striking similarity of digitally mediated political actions by young citizens in different parts of the world in recent years has raised the intriguing possibility that these may be indicators of an emerging transnational public sphere. Fri, 15 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/15/a-transnational-public-sphere-for-a-digital-generation/ http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/17/europes-other-crisis-secessionism-at-the-gates/ Over the course of the last several weeks, I had the privilege of conducting field research (for a forthcoming book) in the capital cities of the three most prominent secessionist movements in Western Europe: Scotland, Catalonia, and Flanders. As the Spring season has now made way for Summer in Europe, the clock has begun to tick on what is shaping up to be something of a pivotal moment in the constitutional futures of all three regions, as well as their respective national states. Sun, 17 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/17/europes-other-crisis-secessionism-at-the-gates/ http://www.voxeurop.eu/de/content/article/4809041-moskaus-zerbrochener-spiegel Europeans thought that Russia would turn itself into a liberal democracy and get closer to the EU. But his re-election in 2012, Vladimir Putin has blocked the modernisation of his country, as shown by the crisis in Ukraine. Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.voxeurop.eu/de/content/article/4809041-moskaus-zerbrochener-spiegel http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/18/the-brics-economic-institutions-and-international-politics/ At the VI BRICS Summit, held in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza in July 2014, Brazil, Russia, China, India, and South Africa formally announced the creation of a New Development Bank (NDB) and a Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA). The official documents portrayed both initiatives as complements to the existing financial and economic institutions. However, in the short term, they will promote more autonomy for the developing countries in relation to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank and, in the long term, they might represent the coming into reality of a new set of principles that will guide economic relations among nations in the 21st century. Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/18/the-brics-economic-institutions-and-international-politics/ http://theglobalobservatory.org/analysis/802-cameroon-growing-threat-boko-haram.html The Kolofata incident was by no means the first attack in Cameroon to be attributed to Boko Haram. Indeed, over the past 18 months, the sect has conducted a number of armed incursions in the country’s Extreme-Nord administrative division, which shares a long and porous border with Nigeria’s insurgent-embattled Adamawa and Borno states. Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://theglobalobservatory.org/analysis/802-cameroon-growing-threat-boko-haram.html http://nationalinterest.org/feature/chinas-crafty-south-china-sea-gambit-11087 In a recent piece for China US Focus, Zhai Kun, director of the Institute of World Political Studies at CICIR, described the South China Sea as �oea chessboard of international politics.” Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://nationalinterest.org/feature/chinas-crafty-south-china-sea-gambit-11087 http://en.qantara.de/content/germanys-shared-responsibility-for-the-gaza-conflict-and-its-end-deja-vu-in-gaza For months, there has been an intense debate about whether Germany should assume greater foreign policy responsibility. Yet when it came to the conflict in Gaza, Germany's politicians have once again slipped into the role of the horrified bystander. Fri, 15 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/germanys-shared-responsibility-for-the-gaza-conflict-and-its-end-deja-vu-in-gaza http://www.voxeurop.eu/fr/content/article/4807309-l-enjeu-de-la-transnistrie In September this year, Transnistria, the separatist region located in the Eastern part of Moldova, is set to celebrate the 24th anniversary of its de-facto independence. And yet there is little scope for celebrations �" as only the contested states of Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia recognise its independence. As minister Sergey Lavrov recently declared in an interview for Bloomberg TV, Russia is officially �oein favor of a settlement which would respect territorial integrity and sovereignty of Moldova”. Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.voxeurop.eu/fr/content/article/4807309-l-enjeu-de-la-transnistrie http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/10/what-would-a-brexit-mean-for-the-eu/ The recent appointment of Jean Claude-Juncker as the new President of the European Commission did not go down well with British Prime Minister David Cameron. In leaked comments, Cameron is even said to have warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Juncker’s appointment would represent an unacceptable increase in power for the EU’s institutions, which could make a British exit from the EU more likely Sun, 10 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/10/what-would-a-brexit-mean-for-the-eu/ http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28573788 With the downing of flight MH17, tensions between Russia and the United States over Ukraine have reached a new high. New tougher sanctions have been put in place, targeting Russia's finance, defence and energy sectors. But Russia may have found a way to hit back - and America's space industry is its target. Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28573788 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/08/does-realism-best-explain-intelligence-cooperation-between-states/ The application of International Relations theories to Intelligence Studies has been limited, especially on the subject of intelligence cooperation. The lack of focus on intelligence liaison exposes a large gap in IR theory considering how symbolic cooperation is to the debate over what drives the behaviour of states. Fri, 08 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/08/does-realism-best-explain-intelligence-cooperation-between-states/ http://en.qantara.de/content/the-eu-and-the-gaza-conflict-effective-diplomacy-needs-engagement-with-all-sides While Europeans are focusing on Ukraine and Iraq, the oldest of the Middle East issues will haunt them for some time. The wider Israel�"Palestinian conflict needs the full attention of Europe, writes Mattia Toaldo Mon, 04 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/the-eu-and-the-gaza-conflict-effective-diplomacy-needs-engagement-with-all-sides http://nationalinterest.org/feature/armenia-azerbaijan-the-brink-war-11035 The messy business of post-imperial disintegration is not over. The eruption of Russian-Ukrainian hostilities is not the only case in point. The former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan are at it again, too. And there may be a connection between the two conflicts, experts say. Fri, 08 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://nationalinterest.org/feature/armenia-azerbaijan-the-brink-war-11035 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/05/review-putins-wars-the-rise-of-russias-new-imperialism/ The book, which Van Herpen finished writing late last year, ends with a quotation from former Czech President Vaclav Havel, who stated, �oeI have said it so often: if the West does not stabilize the East, the East will destabilize the West” Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/08/05/review-putins-wars-the-rise-of-russias-new-imperialism/ http://opiniojuris.org/2014/08/05/breaking-otp-rejects-jurisdiction-situation-palestine/ The ICC Office of the Prosecutor has just released the following statement: Palestine is not a State Party to the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the ICC; neither has the Court received any official document from Palestine indicating acceptance of ICC jurisdiction or requesting the Prosecutor to open an investigation into any alleged crimes following the November 2012 United Nations General Assembly Resolution (67/19), which accorded non-member observer State status to Palestine. Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://opiniojuris.org/2014/08/05/breaking-otp-rejects-jurisdiction-situation-palestine/ http://isnblog.ethz.ch/human-rights/why-belarus-is-different The Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies and the Office for a Democratic Belarus had recently organized a conference on the subject of Belarus’ internal politics and its international position. �oeWhy Belarus is different”, a �oeFood for Thought” event, took place in Brussels, on June 23rd. The importance of the topic for the EU states derives from the geographic proximity of the country to the communitarian borders and from the increasing instability in the Eastern European region, which could potentially expand its turmoil beyond the Ukrainian borders. Wed, 06 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://isnblog.ethz.ch/human-rights/why-belarus-is-different http://moderndiplomacy.eu/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=388:a-modest-australian-proposal-to-resolve-our-geo-political-problems&Itemid=671 There is little doubt that our geo-political problems are becoming more and more intricate and intractable. We presently have on our hands the middle East crisis, the Ukrainian crisis, the Iraq and Syria crisis, the economic crisis of the West, the border crisis between the US and Mexico (with thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America crossing the border), the territory disputes between Japan and China, North and South Korea, the EU-Africa crisis with refugees arriving almost daily in Lampedusa, Italy attempting to get a foot-hold in Europe, and the list goes on and on. The world is indeed a sorry mess. Wed, 06 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://moderndiplomacy.eu/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=388:a-modest-australian-proposal-to-resolve-our-geo-political-problems&Itemid=671 http://consortiumnews.com/2014/08/01/putting-the-dollar-in-jeopardy/ For 70 years, a key element of American power has been the dollar’s standing as the world’s premier currency. But Washington’s repeated use of economic sanctions as a foreign policy weapon has encouraged China and other powers to consider financial alternatives, write Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://consortiumnews.com/2014/08/01/putting-the-dollar-in-jeopardy/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37229&lan=EN Faced with the tragic events our Palestinian brothers and sisters are living through in Gaza, the Network in Defense of Humanity (REDH) assumes our responsibility and expresses the following: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37229&lan=EN http://en.qantara.de/content/irans-nuclear-programme-hope-must-go-on In view of the stubborn hurdles on the path to a permanent nuclear treaty, Iran and the five UN veto powers plus Germany have agreed to continue their talks. Hope for a settlement remains. Yet the risks are not necessarily getting any smaller. Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/irans-nuclear-programme-hope-must-go-on http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37221&lan=EN The confrontation between Moscow and Washington over the Ukrainian internal strife will doubtlessly shift the global balance of power. Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37221&lan=EN http://www.e-ir.info/2014/07/30/the-migration-of-democratic-peace-theory/ For Antonio Gramsci the organic intellectual is a human agent who helps to conserve the social structure or revolutionize it‎ (1971, 342-43). S/he is an integral part of a social class, hence the �oeorganic”, and works with ideas and education, hence the �oeintellectual”. Assembling �oeorganic” and �oeintellectual” together, we get a political agent who is in charge of disseminating values and norms through civil institutions and social artifacts, such as schools, ‎churches, cultural establishments, and popular culture. The values and norms can be libertarian. Then the agents are organic intellectuals of the bourgeoisie class and act to conserve the capitalist social order. The values and norms can be egalitarian. Then the agents are organic intellectuals of the proletariat class and act to revolutionize the ‎capitalist social order towards a socialist one. Within this schema, theoreticians �" party to civil and institutional academia �" have the capacity to become organic intellectuals. Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/07/30/the-migration-of-democratic-peace-theory/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37219&lan=EN The Council has adopted further EU restrictive measures targeting sectoral cooperation and exchanges with the Russian Federation. This decision gives legal value to the agreements reached at the Council's Committee of Permanent Representatives on 29 July. Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37219&lan=EN http://moderndiplomacy.eu/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=386:global-climate-negotiations-and-politics&Itemid=670 Once climate and ecological problems are put in the agenda of international organizations, they immediately become a tool for wider political controversies. Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://moderndiplomacy.eu/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=386:global-climate-negotiations-and-politics&Itemid=670 http://moderndiplomacy.eu/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=383:is-the-crisis-of-secularism-in-western-europe-the-result-of-multiculturalism&Itemid=663 Western Europe is phasing the outcomes of the development of two different trajectories. On one side, the immigrant presence from the former colonies, growing since the 1960’s, has turned Western Europe into a multicultural and, by extension, multi-faith mosaic. On the other, the permanent decline of religious performance has brought up a wider consensus concerning the privatization of religion as well as its status of invisibility in the public sphere. Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://moderndiplomacy.eu/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=383:is-the-crisis-of-secularism-in-western-europe-the-result-of-multiculturalism&Itemid=663 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37210&lan=EN Describing the trade and exploitation of human beings through trafficking as one of the gravest and most comprehensive violations of human dignity, UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay marked the first-ever World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, by urging all governments to act: �oeEvery government has a responsibility to fight it, both directly�"through investigations and prosecutions �" and in the deeper sense of serious and sustained efforts at prevention.” Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37210&lan=EN http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4556/germans-iran According to Küntzel, German leaders have at least two other reasons for helping Iran defy the United States. The first is German resentment of defeat in the Second World War followed by foreign occupation, led by the US. The second reason is that Iran is one of the few, if not the only country, where Germans have never been looked at as "war criminals" because of Hitler. Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4556/germans-iran http://nationalinterest.org/feature/solving-the-middle-easts-refugee-disaster-10976 The current policy conversation about redrawing the Middle East map ignores a long-term problem that must be part of the solution: Iraqi and Syrian refugees. As nearly three million Syrian refugees have sought UN assistance in neighboring states, and more than one million Iraqis have fled this year, the international community must act now to avoid a greater security crisis. Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://nationalinterest.org/feature/solving-the-middle-easts-refugee-disaster-10976 http://consortiumnews.com/2014/07/30/postponing-costs-for-bad-decisions/ Politicians from Washington to Beijing to Tel Aviv like to put off the negative consequences of their decisions as long as possible, but that often adds to the eventual costs to their people and the world, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://consortiumnews.com/2014/07/30/postponing-costs-for-bad-decisions/ http://www.e-ir.info/2014/07/26/the-islamic-state-and-the-international-politics-of-statehood-in-the-middle-east/ In June 2014, central and northern areas of Iraq came under the control of a loose alliance of insurgent groups, spearheaded by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Over the next month, this group marginalised many of its former allies, established some institutions of governance and coercion in the areas under its control, and, renaming itself as the Islamic State, proclaimed its rule over a swathe of territory that stretches from the city of Aleppo in northern Syria to the Diyala governorate in eastern Iraq. Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/07/26/the-islamic-state-and-the-international-politics-of-statehood-in-the-middle-east/ http://www.france24.com/en/20140725-israel-icc-war-crimes-gaza-complaint-filed/ A French lawyer said on Friday that he had filed a complaint on behalf of the Palestinian justice minister at the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing Israel’s military of having carried out �oewar crimes” in the Gaza Strip. Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.france24.com/en/20140725-israel-icc-war-crimes-gaza-complaint-filed/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37177&lan=EN For many, autonomous weapons or ‘killer robots’ are the stuff of science fiction, the stuff of nightmares, or both. Autonomous weapons, though, may soon become fact. Thankfully, careful ethical explorations are now underway to prevent killer robots from ushering in the dystopian horror that has stirred Hollywood and others for decades �" notably in 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Terminator, I, Robot, The Matrix, and Virtuosity. These discussions are the topic of this article �" is there anything morally wrong with deploying a killer robot in war? Wed, 23 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37177&lan=EN http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4469/new-york-times-war-statistics It is the very power of numbers, graphics and photographs that makes them compelling ways to prove a point, and lousy ways of explaining what is really going on. Creating compelling clickbait in the form of infographics is a disturbing trend in news today. But that is not "all the news that is fit to print;" that is propaganda. Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4469/new-york-times-war-statistics http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4471/abbas-endorsed-hamas-demands Evidently Abbas has reached the conclusion that unless he hurries up and declares his support for the Palestinian "resistance" in the Gaza Strip, his people will march on his office and force him to quit. Abbas's fear of a revolt has driven him into the open arms of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4471/abbas-endorsed-hamas-demands http://consortiumnews.com/2014/07/22/the-kurds-eye-long-desired-state/ The sectarian conflict engulfing Iraq has created an historic opportunity for the Kurds, a people who have long dreamed of their own homeland. A new Kurdish state carved out of Iraq also could shift the region’s power relationships, says Andrés Cala. Tue, 22 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://consortiumnews.com/2014/07/22/the-kurds-eye-long-desired-state/ http://www.fidh.org/fr/maghreb-moyen-orient/israel-territoires-palestiniens-occupes/15734-israel-territoires-palestiniens-occupes-un-nouveau-cycle-de-violence-avec The increased targeting of civilians and civilian objects in Israel‘s military operation in the Gaza Strip, dubbed �oeOperation Protective Edge” is unacceptable. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and FIDH call on the EU to condemn the wilful targeting and killing of civilians and to ensure that all parties abide by their obligations under international law. Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.fidh.org/fr/maghreb-moyen-orient/israel-territoires-palestiniens-occupes/15734-israel-territoires-palestiniens-occupes-un-nouveau-cycle-de-violence-avec http://en.qantara.de/content/portrait-qassem-soleimani-the-man-who-pulls-the-strings Iran is battling Saudi Arabia for regional supremacy in the Middle East, and is steadily expanding its sphere of influence in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Behind the scenes, Qassem Soleimani is a key figure who has had more influence on Iran's foreign policy over the last twenty years than almost anyone else. Wed, 16 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/portrait-qassem-soleimani-the-man-who-pulls-the-strings http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37149&lan=EN Coming up to three years since the Australian Government committed to undertaking a pilot of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), civil society groups forming part of the Publish What You Pay Australia coalition are eagerly waiting to hear if the Government will properly implement it in order to enhance the transparency of Australia’s natural resource sector. Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37149&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37148&lan=EN Washington showed Putin this week that as long as he continues supporting separatists, there will be consequences, but without further sanctions imposed by the EU, Putin might still ignore the international community. The most effective way to take Putin down a peg and to ensure the stability of the region is to diversify Europe’s energy supply and to lessen its dependence on Russian gas. Putin understands that Europe’s fear of finding itself in a gas shortage which could significantly affect its overall economy feeds its reluctance in imposing strict economic sanctions. Minimizing Europe’s reliance on Putin’s gas will deprive Russia of her strongest tool of persuasion, making the Kremlin soften its anti-western rhetoric and making it easier to deal with Moscow Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37148&lan=EN http://en.qantara.de/content/history-of-the-caliphate-we-are-all-caliphs Credible historians attest that caliphs did indeed exist at one time, and that the last caliph of any (albeit modest) global historical significance was deposed just ninety years ago. Nevertheless, caliphs have always also been figures of fairy tale and fantasy, not much different to fairies, magicians, dragons and flying carpets. If the word caliph has an aura, this is not a by-product of historical reality, which was an unhappy tale from the outset, but rather of wishful thinking �" political on the part of Muslims, infused with nostalgia for the Orient on the part of the West. Thu, 17 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/history-of-the-caliphate-we-are-all-caliphs http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/as-the-sole-strategic-force-in-europe-france-deserves-respect-a-944693.html#ref=veeseoartikel French troops are fighting in bloody conflicts around the world, most recently in the Central African Republic. Other EU members, including Germany, say they will now provide support for these deployments. It's high time. Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/as-the-sole-strategic-force-in-europe-france-deserves-respect-a-944693.html#ref=veeseoartikel http://fr.unesco.org/events/journ%C3%A9e-mondiale-d%E2%80%99action-jeunesse-peid This day of action across Small Island Developing States (SIDS) will be organized by UNESCO in partnership with the Government of Samoa, the Samoa National Youth Council and the SIDS Youth Network. Youth will undertake local actions in their home countries and upload and share their experiences on internet. Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://fr.unesco.org/events/journ%C3%A9e-mondiale-d%E2%80%99action-jeunesse-peid http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37104&lan=EN BRICS must provide a new global Internet Governance model that ensures human rights, as well as equity and social justice for all people of the world Tue, 15 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37104&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37103&lan=EN The European Court of Human Rights’ ruling approving France’s blanket ban on full-face veils undermines Muslim women’s rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The ban interferes with women’s rights to express their religion and beliefs freely and to personal autonomy. Thu, 03 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37103&lan=EN http://www.e-ir.info/2014/07/05/the-role-of-victimisation-in-the-vietnam-china-war-of-words/ Since early May, media and public opinion have had a continuous supply of stories on the ongoing dispute between Vietnam and China. Analysis of both the Vietnamese and Chinese mass media provides insights into the fascinating tactics at play in this diplomatic war and reveals how the narrative of victimisation is an important tool for gaining international support. Sat, 05 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.e-ir.info/2014/07/05/the-role-of-victimisation-in-the-vietnam-china-war-of-words/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37094&lan=EN When I spoke at the EES Discussion in June, 2008, about whether there was a "Kosovo precedent," I had no reason to believe that these issues would soon come to a head in South Ossetia. Having written a legal assessment of the separatist crisis in Moldova, my attention was focused more on the western Black Sea littoral than on the eastern. The essay reprinted here reflects the main points that I made at that June meeting. It considers the legal issues implicated by Kosovo's declaration of independence and the subsequent recognition by various states of Kosovo as an independent country. It also tries to set out the differences between political and legal precedent and how we may frame arguments about what Kosovo means in terms of these two different uses "precedent." In a few places I have included some short updates to reflect recent events. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37094&lan=EN http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/world/middleeast/iraq.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Under the constitution, the election of a speaker starts the clock for the selection of other posts. Once the speaker is chosen, he has two weeks to name a president, which is done in consultation with other lawmakers. Within four weeks, the president then nominates a prime minister from one of the largest blocs. The prime minister then has a month to form a government. Tue, 15 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/world/middleeast/iraq.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37087&lan=EN �oeOne can never anticipate the ways of divine providence securely enough” to declare war because one held a belief of the future hostile intent of one’s adversaries, remarked Otto von Bismarck in 1875. Such arguments have surrounded the concepts of preemption and its illegitimate counterpart �" prevention �" long before the inception of the controversial Bush Doctrine in the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States. Preemption has been practiced for centuries as a legitimate means of self-defense for states. Prevention, an aggressive strategy intended to neutralise a threat before it can come fully into existence, has traditionally been outlawed under international law, international organisations and Just War theory. Tue, 15 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37087&lan=EN http://en.qantara.de/content/israels-crisis-politics-on-hope-and-despair-in-the-middle-east The Middle East powder keg is threatening to explode. Anyone who still believes in peace must have hope �" yet hope is precisely what is lacking. The Israeli writer David Grossman makes this appeal to his countrymen Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/israels-crisis-politics-on-hope-and-despair-in-the-middle-east http://alainet.org/active/75151 For many years now corporate power has been a cornerstone of the Democracy Center’s research and advocacy projects. From our work with activists and advocates in Bolivia and around the world, we’ve seen time and again the ways in which these powerful, profit-driven institutions can impact our natural environment, our cultures and our democracies. The report holds some invaluable lessons for other countries regarding the challenges involved in unraveling the web of trade and investment agreements and the rights they grant to corporations. Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://alainet.org/active/75151 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37079&lan=EN It's hard not to feel that the world, humanity and our Mother Earth are being pushed to the brink of disaster by the neoliberal empire, that is, the United States and its NATO allies. This is as true if we talk about nature, about the accelerated extinction of the species and global warming, or of societies, or rather what remains of them in many nation-states that have shed or are being pushed to shed all national and popular sovereignty. Thu, 03 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37079&lan=EN http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/nato-needs-strategy-for-possible-meddling-by-putin-in-baltic-states-a-979707.html When Moscow-backed troops appeared in Crimea earlier this year, the media dubbed them the "Little Green Men." Now NATO members should ask themselves how they will respond if the soldiers begin appearing in Estonia and Latvia too. Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/nato-needs-strategy-for-possible-meddling-by-putin-in-baltic-states-a-979707.html http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37061&lan=EN Like many countries in the region, Bolivia was effectively treated as a �oelab rat” to be subjected to neoliberal policies of privatization and the systematic stripping of natural resources. However, after the water war broke out, a movement came together to reclaim Bolivia's natural resources, its basic services, its water, its electricity etc. But during this struggle it soon became clear that the ISDS system, designed to be able to overturn government decisions, threatened any potential victories. Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37061&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37060&lan=EN Israel’s military operations in the West Bank following the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers have amounted to collective punishment. The military operations included unlawful use of force, arbitrary arrests, and illegal home demolitions. Thu, 03 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37060&lan=EN http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/with-arrest-of-six-jews-in-arab-teens-killing-israel-confronts-its-own-extremists/2014/07/07/422a49aa-05b9-11e4-a0dd-f2b22a257353_story.html?hpid=z1 The mother of one of the slain Israeli teenagers made a public plea for compassion for the Palestinian youth’s family and denounced the killing. �oeIt is difficult for me to describe how distressed we are by the outrage committed in Jerusalem �" the shedding of innocent blood in defiance of all morality, of the Torah, of the foundation of the lives of our boys and of all of us in this country,” said Racheli Fraenkel. Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/with-arrest-of-six-jews-in-arab-teens-killing-israel-confronts-its-own-extremists/2014/07/07/422a49aa-05b9-11e4-a0dd-f2b22a257353_story.html?hpid=z1 http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/standpoint-how-the-budget-might-bring-bad-news-for-the-average-indian-2000347 Behind celebrations and climbing return on the stocks, which brings a sparkle into the eyes of every bookmaker and investor, there is a story of the average Indian on the streets who suffers from the soaring inflation that comes with it. He is the one who is actually hopeful of the budget, and he is the one who is going to be most disappointed this time for more reasons than one. Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/standpoint-how-the-budget-might-bring-bad-news-for-the-average-indian-2000347 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37038&lan=EN The concept of global civil society (GCS) has become of the most used terminologies used in world politics during the last decades. However, the term conveys a significant amount of ambiguity. What are the contradictions implicit in the idea of GCS? This is the question that this article seeks to uncover. It is argued that because GCS is relatively in an embryonic stage, there are fundamental contradictions within its global, civil and societal dimensions. Wed, 02 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=37038&lan=EN http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/03/opinion/japan-changes-limits-on-its-military.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has disturbed many in Japan and increased anxiety in Asia by reinterpreting his country’s pacifist postwar Constitution so that the military can play a more assertive role than it has since World War II. Wed, 02 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/03/opinion/japan-changes-limits-on-its-military.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0 http://en.qantara.de/content/the-syrian-conflict-and-the-advance-of-isis-assad-and-the-myth-of-the-lesser-evil Assad has used chemical weapons and laid waste to entire neighbourhoods and regions with barrel bombs. However, in the West, fears of what ISIS Islamists could achieve loom so large that Syria's dictator continues to be seen as a smaller part of the problem. Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/the-syrian-conflict-and-the-advance-of-isis-assad-and-the-myth-of-the-lesser-evil http://en.qantara.de/content/rohingya-muslims-in-myanmar-the-spectre-of-ethnic-violence-reappears In the light of a recent series of bills proposed by the Myanmar government that seek to restrict an individual's right to religious freedom, critics fear a further increase in discrimination and violence against the marginalised community of Rohingya Muslims. Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/rohingya-muslims-in-myanmar-the-spectre-of-ethnic-violence-reappears http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/interview-with-obama-advisor-john-podesta-on-nsa-and-cyber-security-a-978297.html Instead of a no-spy deal, the US has begun a Cyber Dialogue with Germany. In a SPIEGEL interview, John Podesta, a special advisor to President Barack Obama, speaks of the balance between alliances and security and says that changes are being made to NSA espionage practices. Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/interview-with-obama-advisor-john-podesta-on-nsa-and-cyber-security-a-978297.html http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36998&lan=EN The Kurdish-run areas of Syria are quieter than war-torn parts of the country, but serious abuses are still taking place. The PYD is firmly in charge, and can halt the abuse. Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East and North Africa director Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36998&lan=EN http://de.qantara.de/inhalt/fuenf-jahre-gruene-bewegung-im-iran-vergangenheit-und-gegenwart On 12 June 2009, millions of Iranians began protesting against President Ahmadinejad's re-election. Five years after these protests were violently crushed and the "Green Movement" failed, this chapter of modern Iranian history is still not closed. Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://de.qantara.de/inhalt/fuenf-jahre-gruene-bewegung-im-iran-vergangenheit-und-gegenwart http://www.euractiv.fr/sections/royaume-uni-en-europe/addition-salee-pour-le-royaume-uni-en-cas-de-sortie-de-lue-302958 The British Conservative candidate for European Parliament President has warned that leaving the European Union could cost the United Kingdom its seat on the United Nations Security Council. Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.euractiv.fr/sections/royaume-uni-en-europe/addition-salee-pour-le-royaume-uni-en-cas-de-sortie-de-lue-302958 http://alainet.org/active/74511 �oeThere are no conservative parties in Brazil,” claimed the magazine Veja in April. In a country where a centre-left Workers’ Party government has taken 40 million people out of poverty, none of Brazil’s 27 parties identify themselves as rightwing. Even the most reactionary have progressive-sounding names such as �oethe Democrats.” Brazil is not unique. Across Latin America, the rightwing parties that dominated in the 1990s are in disarray, struggling to develop a coherent electoral alternative to popular leftwing governments. A glance at the polls for this year’s elections suggests we should really be asking if the right has disappeared in Latin America. Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://alainet.org/active/74511 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36956&lan=EN The world and its geopolitical cartography, as conceived by Western powers since the Nineteenth Century, is coming to an end. This means that the centre-periphery order, as established in the modern world, now makes no sense. Nor is there any sense, in the face of the climate and energy crisis, in an economic system that only knows how to administer the systematic dispossession of life (of humanity and nature) in favour of the fetishes of the modern world: capital and the market. This is a crisis of civilization, and can only be understood in its true magnitude, from a multidimensional perspective. Sat, 31 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36956&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36949&lan=EN The recent gains made by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) confirms that, more than a decade after the war in Iraq began, stability in the Middle East remains on a knife’s edge. ISIS �" with its transnational commitment to a caliphate that encompasses vast swaths of territory from western Syria to central Iraq �" exemplifies the interrelated nature of the challenges facing the region, and the threat it poses highlights the urgent need for a new framework for action in the Middle East. Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36949&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36944&lan=EN In order to consolidate the hemispheric commitments on human rights, reinforce the conditions for their realization and widen the reach for their fulfilment, the UNASUR countries have undertaken a process for strengthening the Inter-American System of Human Rights �" IASHR �" that includes, on the one hand, the consistency of content and methodology with the regional context, and on the other hand, universalization, that implies parity of the rules of the game for all the member countries. Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36944&lan=EN http://www.ecfr.eu/content/entry/commentary_ten_global_consequences_of_ukraine272 Since the end of the Cold War, the world has benefited from two orders: an American-led security order that ensured a balance of power in every region, and a European-led legal order that sought to write rules for our interdependent world �" in everything from free trade and climate emissions to financial transactions and genocide. The backdrop to the Ukraine crisis is the fraying of the American-led security order as non-Western powers rise and the US recalibrates its foreign policy after a decade of war. So far the crisis has been contained to Ukraine rather than spilling over across the post-Soviet space or bringing the global economy to its knees. What will the longer-term global consequences of the Ukraine crisis be? Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ecfr.eu/content/entry/commentary_ten_global_consequences_of_ukraine272 http://www.sipri.org/media/pressreleases/2014/nuclear_May_2014 Over the past five years there has been a steady decline in the overall number of nuclear warheads in the world (see table 2). The decrease is due mainly to Russia and the USA�"which together still account for more than 93 per cent of all nuclear weapons�"further reducing their inventories of strategic nuclear weapons under the terms of the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START). Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.sipri.org/media/pressreleases/2014/nuclear_May_2014 http://www.dw.de/daunting-challenges-await-future-afghan-president/a-17707332 Amid tight security, Afghans lined up on June 14 to vote in the second round of presidential elections to chose the successor of Hamid Karzai, who has ruled the South Asian nation since the Taliban regime was toppled in 2001. The runoff vote pitting former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah against ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani is set to mark the first democratic transition of power in the war-torn country's history. Sat, 14 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dw.de/daunting-challenges-await-future-afghan-president/a-17707332 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27815618 Iraq is facing its most severe crisis in years, with the country on the brink of break-up amid lightning offensives by jihadist militants. How has it happened so quickly? Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27815618 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36911&lan=EN Winds of change carrying old habits are blowing through the territories of Latin America and the Caribbean. The hegemonic vocation and the permanent need to renew it and reaffirm it brings with it a portfolio full of elements of seduction, dissuasion or repression, employed simultaneously or in isolation. They allow for the most widely diverse and versatile combinations, always to the same end: on occasion explicit, but more often masked by untenable pretexts such as the �oerestoration of democracy”. Thu, 29 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36911&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36899&lan=EN Urging all political leaders in Iraq to show national unity against the myriad threats facing the country, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed grave concern about the �oeserious deterioration” of security in Mosul, and condemned the recent spate of terrorist attacks that have left scores of dead and wounded in Iraq’s northern and eastern provinces. In a statement issued by his spokesperson in New York, the UN chief said he is gravely concerned by the deteriorating situation in Mosul, where, according to news reports, after days of fighting against Government forces, militants associated with the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS) and the Levant (ISIL) have overrun the city �" the second largest in Iraq �" forcing thousands of civilians to flee the violence. Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36899&lan=EN http://marketrealist.com/2014/06/can-russia-india-china-unite-shift-geopolitical-gravity/ Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://marketrealist.com/2014/06/can-russia-india-china-unite-shift-geopolitical-gravity/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36891&lan=EN The G7 summit, hosted by the European Union, has now come to an end. Both of the G7 Leaders Communiqués are available online: the Communiqué of 5 June 2014 is available here, and the G7 Leaders Communiqué on Foreign Policy of 4 June 2014 is available here. At the closing press conference, President Barroso made the following remarks on the results of the G7 summit: "Some time ago we were not expecting to be meeting here in Brussels for this G7, but it was well worth it. It was a very successful summit with very good conversations and with a very remarkable level of convergence. On a range of geo-strategic issues we have a unity and common determination to lead the global response." Fri, 06 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36891&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36886&lan=EN The Group of G77+China, which at the present time groups 133 member countries of the United Nations, will celebrate its 50th anniversary, with Bolivia and Evo Morales in the presidency of this body. The 14th and the 15th of June will see the meeting in Santa Cruz de la Sierra of representatives of the 133 countries, among them some 35 heads of State of Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. Sun, 08 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36886&lan=EN http://www.voxeurop.eu/fr/content/article/4772754-la-balle-est-dans-le-camp-des-pro-europeens Recently there has been a lot of talk about the rise of anti-European parties, which is more than justified when you consider the results of the European parliamentary elections. However, Europe is continuing to send mixed signals and not all of them are coming from extremists. Wed, 04 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.voxeurop.eu/fr/content/article/4772754-la-balle-est-dans-le-camp-des-pro-europeens http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36871&lan=EN While the United Nations celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2015, Koreans will lament 70 years of national division. Considering all of the challenges and opportunities that the divided peninsula faces �" and will continue to confront in the coming years �" unification remains an important goal that we must continue to pursue. Mon, 02 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36871&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36855&lan=EN Europe’s poor risk being forced to choose between heating and eating. Russia’s absence from the G7 summit is a stark warning to Europe that political turmoil on its doorstep risks an energy price crisis, at the same time as the effects of climate change on food imports could drive up costs, Oxfam says today. In a new report Fit for a Food and Energy Secure World?, the international agency argues that the crisis in Ukraine and resulting tensions with Russia are a wake-up call for Europe to reassess its energy mix. Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36855&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36854&lan=EN �oeIs there actually a limit? Will the United States ever stop trying to overthrow the Cuban government? Entire books have been written documenting the unrelenting ways Washington has tried to get rid of tiny Cuba’s horrid socialism �" from military invasion to repeated assassination attempts, to an embargo that President Clinton’s National Security Advisor called �oethe most pervasive sanctions ever imposed on a nation in the history of mankind”. Wed, 28 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36854&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36853&lan=EN The deal signed last week by Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to create a Eurasian Economic Union is yet another countermeasure against US and European attempts to isolate Russia. By moving towards closer economic cooperation, Russia hopes to build, piecemeal if necessary, a common Eurasian economic space that will ultimately rival the US and Europe in terms of economic influence. Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36853&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36822&lan=EN Today the European Commission adopted a Communication to contribute to the EU position in international negotiations on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as the follow-up to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The SDGs are intended to reinforce the international community's commitment to eradicating poverty and supporting sustainable development, challenges that affect the lives of current and future generations. The Commission Communication describes key principles and proposes priority areas and potential targets for the years following 2015, as a step towards establishing a limited number of Sustainable Development Goals. Mon, 02 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36822&lan=EN http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141442/tarek-osman/who-will-win-the-middle-east The Arab uprisings of the last three years shook up the balance of power once more, toppling three of the Arab republics, Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia; threatening Arab monarchies in the Gulf; and sewing chaos around Israel. Whereas most observers evaluate the uprisings in terms of the political changes they did -- or did not -- usher in, there are other forces at play. A larger power struggle has emerged out of the ashes of revolution, repression, and war from Tunisia to Syria, which is reshaping the entire strategic landscape of the Middle East. Its outcome will transform the entire region more than any regional rivalry or the rise or fall of any single power in the preceding half century. Thu, 22 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141442/tarek-osman/who-will-win-the-middle-east http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/05/22/thailand-military-coup/9428953/ Thailand's army chief, Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, said Thursday that the army is taking control of the government in a bid to restore order and push through political reform. Reaction to the news, which was announced live on television, has so far been muted. "It is necessary for the Peace and Order Maintaining Command �" which includes army, navy, armed forces and police �" to take control of governing the country," Prayuth said, in an address to the nation. Thu, 22 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/05/22/thailand-military-coup/9428953/ http://en.qantara.de/content/reconciliation-between-hamas-and-fatah-no-peace-without-palestinian-unity The Palestinian organisations Hamas and Fatah plan to seal an alliance with each other �" primarily out of necessity. Reconciliation is difficult; the danger of failure is great. It is for precisely this reason that the US and Europe should support the process. US Secretary of State John Kerry's attempt to resolve the Middle East conflict has failed. There is no peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, not even a simple "framework agreement"; since the start of the peace process, the positions of the Israeli government and the PLO have never been so far apart. Fri, 16 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/reconciliation-between-hamas-and-fatah-no-peace-without-palestinian-unity http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36741&lan=EN Evidence strongly suggests that Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs embedded with cylinders of chlorine gas on three towns in Northern Syria in mid-April 2014, Human Rights Watch said today. These attacks used an industrial chemical as a weapon, an act banned by the international treaty prohibiting chemical weapons that Syria joined in October 2013. The Syrian government is the only party to the conflict with helicopters and other aircraft. Fri, 16 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36741&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36713&lan=EN The 4th EU-Africa Summit brought together more than 60 EU and African leaders, and a total of 90 delegations, to discuss the future of EU-Africa relations and reinforce links between the two continents. In the summit declaration, leaders highlighted the close nature of EU-Africa relations and the shared values of democracy, respect for human rights, the rule of law and good governance as well as the right to development. Wed, 07 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36713&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36702&lan=EN NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday (8 May 2014) the Ukraine crisis has made it more urgent that Allies work together to develop modern military capabilities and reverse the decline in defence spending. �oeThe crisis shows us more clearly than ever that defence matters. That collective defence matters. And that cooperation between the two shores of the Atlantic is the best and most natural way to keep ourselves secure,” the Secretary General said after his talks with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Wed, 07 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36702&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36698&lan=EN On March 4, 2014 the US Department of Defense published the Quadrennial Defence Review, in which they propose as their objective to adapt, reorganize and balance the military power of the United States in order to prepare for the strategic challenges and opportunities that they are likely to face over the next ten years. The main idea, as the document explains, is to dissuade any aggression against the interests and global leadership of the United States, and if dissuasion fails, to be prepared to ensure victory against any adversary. As part of this reorganization, the Department of Defence proposes to reduce the size of the army, prioritize those means employed in cyber warfare and special operations, finalize some combat missions that are currently on-going and centre their attention in the Pacific, mainly in China which will become one of their primary objectives. Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36698&lan=EN http://de.qantara.de/inhalt/totalitaere-feindbilder-ueber-islam-anti-terrorismus-und-faschismus One of the reasons why there is little outcry over the repression practised by secular governments in the Arab world is that there is a lack of empathy for those who are affected by it, writes Charlotte Wiedemann. Anyone who expounds the theory that Islam has a quasi-religious genetic proximity to fascism can be sure of attracting attention, especially if the person voicing this theory comes from a Muslim background. However, as hotly as this subject is being debated in the German media at present, events such as the recent presidential election in Algeria and the upcoming presidential election in Egypt raise the very opposite question, namely when does anti-Islamism, which also goes by the name of anti-terrorism, cross the line to become fascism? Fri, 02 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://de.qantara.de/inhalt/totalitaere-feindbilder-ueber-islam-anti-terrorismus-und-faschismus http://www.goethe.de/ges/pok/sup/en12673574.htm On 1 May 2004 Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, among others, joined the European Union. What impact has this eastward expansion had? An interview with the Hungarian author György Konrád. Mr. Konrád, ten years after Hungary joined the European Union, two thirds of the electorate voted for parties that are critical of the EU, or even reject it, in the parliamentary elections there in early April 2014. Do the citizens regret EU accession? Fri, 02 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.goethe.de/ges/pok/sup/en12673574.htm http://www.leap2020.net/euro-brics/2014/04/04/crise-ukrainienne-un-coup-sanglant-porte-au-rapprochement-euro-brics-et-a-lemergence-du-monde-multipolaire/ The Ukraine crisis is not an accident of history, it is the result of an intention: that of forcing Ukraine to choose sides between Europe and Russia. The European External Action Service of the European Commission led by Ms. Ashton and Mr. O’Sullivan refused the tripartite negotiation proposed by Russia in November 2013 between the economic partnerships under development among Ukraine and Russia on the one hand, and Ukraine and the EU on the other hand. Once launched, the process was inevitable: forced to choose, Ukraine lost its freedom and, because of its dual nature, headed towards the major crisis that we know today. From the door it was between Europe and Russia, Ukraine transformed into a wall. Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.leap2020.net/euro-brics/2014/04/04/crise-ukrainienne-un-coup-sanglant-porte-au-rapprochement-euro-brics-et-a-lemergence-du-monde-multipolaire/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36657&lan=EN The United Nations human rights chief today condemned the rampant use of torture, including allegedly of children, in detention facilities across Syria by Government forces and some armed opposition groups. �oeIn armed conflict, torture constitutes a war crime. When it is used in a systematic or widespread manner, which is almost certainly the case in Syria, it also amounts to a crime against humanity,” said High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36657&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36655&lan=EN Strasbourg, 09.04.2014 �" �oeThe so-called referendum” in Crimea was unconstitutional. Its outcome and �oethe illegal annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation therefore have no legal effect and are not recognised by the Council of Europe”, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) stated today in an resolution adopted at the end of an urgent debate. Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36655&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36653&lan=EN The former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden has told the Council of Europe that the NSA spied on human rights organizations, but did not identify which groups. If Snowden’s assertion is accurate, it is an example of behavior the US government condemns around the world. Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36653&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36645&lan=EN The global economy is turning the corner of the Great Recession, although overall growth remains too slow and weak, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said. In a speech at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington ahead of the 2014 IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings, Lagarde added that �oea modest and fragile recovery is under way that now needs to change gears toward more rapid and sustainable growth.” Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36645&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36643&lan=EN In the margins of the EU-Africa summit, Herman Van Rompuy, UN SG Ban Ki-moon and several African and European leaders attended a special high-level meeting on the Central African Republic. Co-organised and co-chaired by the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, the French President François Hollande and President Abdel Aziz of Mauritania, the current holder of the African Union Presidency, the meeting aimed to demonstrate the strong commitment of the different international organisations to cooperate and coordinate their efforts on a solution to the crisis. Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36643&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36639&lan=EN In a vote that reaffirmed Ukraine’s unity and territorial integrity, the United Nations General Assembly today adopted a measure underscoring that the mid-March referendum in Crimea that led to the peninsula’s annexation by Russia �oehas no validity” and that the parties should �oepursue immediately a peaceful resolution of the situation. ”By a vote of 100 in favour to 11 against, with 58 abstentions, the 193-member Assembly called on all States, international organizations and specialized agencies not to recognize any alteration of the status of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol on the basis of the 16 March referendum �oeand to refrain from any action or dealing that might be interpreted as recognizing any such altered status.” Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36639&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36634&lan=EN Remarks by president Obama in address to european youth: Leaders and dignitaries of the European Union; representatives of our NATO Alliance; distinguished guests: We meet here at a moment of testing for Europe and the United States, and for the international order that we have worked for generations to build.nThroughout human history, societies have grappled with fundamental questions of how to organize themselves, the proper relationship between the individual and the state, the best means to resolve inevitable conflicts between states. And it was here in Europe, through centuries of struggle -- through war and Enlightenment, repression and revolution -- that a particular set of ideals began to emerge: The belief that through conscience and free will, each of us has the right to live as we choose. Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36634&lan=EN http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-infantile-diplomacy-behind-demonising-russia/14824#.UzGMWM7ROLL Are Western diplomats and media outlets being serious when they accuse the Russian government of launching a new Cold War? Do they really believe their own rhetoric when they say Putin has expansionary ambitions and wants to rebuild the Soviet Empire? Did Hillary Clinton, the former US secretary of state, mean it when she said Russia’s actions in Crimea are similar to ‘what Hitler did back in the 1930s’? Other anti-Russian observers have also claimed that Russia’s incorporation of Crimea is analogous to the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Do all these people sincerely believe this interpretation of current geopolitical events? It is always difficult, if not dangerous, to speculate about the thought processes that drive powerful diplomats and political leaders to say and do certain things. Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-infantile-diplomacy-behind-demonising-russia/14824#.UzGMWM7ROLL http://https://rsf.org/fr/ranking/2014 The 2014 World Press Freedom Index spotlights the negative impact of conflicts on freedom of information and its protagonists. The ranking of some countries has also been affected by a tendency to interpret national security needs in an overly broad and abusive manner to the detriment of the right to inform and be informed. This trend constitutes a growing threat worldwide and is even endangering freedom of information in countries regarded as democracies. Finland tops the index for the fourth year running, closely followed by Netherlands and Norway, like last year. At the other end of the index, the last three positions are again held by Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea, three countries where freedom of information is non-existent. Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://https://rsf.org/fr/ranking/2014 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304250204579433533118580224?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304250204579433533118580224.html President Barack Obama is struggling to overcome widespread pessimism about the economy and deep frustration with Washington, notching the lowest job-approval ratings of his presidency in a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The results suggest Mr. Obama could weigh on fellow Democrats in midterm elections this fall, particularly in the conservative states that will play a large role in deciding whether his party retains its Senate majority. Wed, 12 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304250204579433533118580224?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304250204579433533118580224.html http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36613&lan=EN Nigel Timmins is Oxfam’s deputy humanitarian director. He heads the organization’s response to the Syria crisis. Here, he reflects on his personal experiences working with Syrians. The story of Sabeen, who fled Syria just 24 hours after giving birth to her baby, will stay with me forever. As she sat on the floor of her caravan in Zaatari camp, in Jordan, she quietly looked into the distance and told me how, when approaching her due date, she had been forced to leave her home in Syria. Sabeen’s neighbor’s house had just been razed to the ground by heavy shelling, and she and her husband feared their house might be next. Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36613&lan=EN http://www.euractiv.fr/europe-dans-le-monde/la-crimee-dit-oui-la-russie-news-534174 Crimea's Moscow-backed leaders declared a 96% vote in favour of quitting Ukraine and annexation by Russia in a referendum held yesterday (16 March) Western powers said was illegal and will bring immediate sanctions. EU ministers gather in Brussels today to decide on visa bans and freezing assets of top Russian officials. As state media in Russia carried a startling reminder of its power to turn the United States to "radioactive ash", President Barack Obama spoke to Vladimir Putin on Sunday, telling the Russian president that he and his European allies were ready to impose "additional costs" on Moscow for violating Ukraine's territory. Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.euractiv.fr/europe-dans-le-monde/la-crimee-dit-oui-la-russie-news-534174 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36605&lan=EN The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will train a diverse range of partners during the second phase of a comprehensive programme designed to mobilize tax revenues and improve budget management in Africa. The programme currently supports 17 countries in West and Central Africa and it will expand its portfolio to include a large number of civil society representatives, parliamentarians, universities and government departments involved in service delivery. Part of this effort will be conducted through online training. Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36605&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36604&lan=EN CAMBRIDGE �" More than 130,000 people are said to have died in Syria’s civil war. United Nations reports of atrocities, Internet images of attacks on civilians, and accounts of suffering refugees rend our hearts. But what is to be done �" and by whom? So what are a leader’s duties beyond borders? The problem extends far beyond Syria. Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36604&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36599&lan=EN There are a trillion reasons to care about who owns emerging market debt. That’s how much money global investors have poured into in these government bonds in recent years �"$1 trillion. Who owns it, for how long and why it changes over time can shed light on the risks; a sudden reversal of money flowing out of a country can hurt. Shifts in the investor base also can have implications for a government’s borrowing costs. What investors do next is a big question for emerging markets, and our new analysis takes some of the guesswork out of who owns your debt. Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36599&lan=EN http://www.savethechildren.net/article/syria-crisis-what-world-doing-help Imagine you have a young child whose legs were amputated because the hospital didn’t have the proper equipment to treat them. Imagine a world in which patients opt to be knocked unconscious with metal bars because there are no anesthetics. Imagine a life where newborn babies die in their incubators because of power cuts. Millions of people in Syria don’t have to imagine �" this hell is their reality. Wed, 12 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.savethechildren.net/article/syria-crisis-what-world-doing-help http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36585&lan=EN Fri, 21 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36585&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36583&lan=EN Coup d’Etat: The Technique of Revolution is the title of a book by Curzio Malaparte, which was read avidly by "Che" Guevara. The basic idea is that the coup is a technical and not a political problem. Malaparte reviews the most famous coups, the successful ones, and those that failed. Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36583&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36571&lan=EN Bosnian citizens' protest against corruption and misgovernance also reveals the deep flaws of the country's ethno-nationalist system. But where is Europe, asks Goran Fejić. Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36571&lan=EN http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/opinion/sunday/stray-dogs-and-stateless-babies.html?_r=0 ON National Geographic Traveler Magazine’s Best of the World list this year, Sarajevo joined such select destinations as Liechtenstein, Puglia and Rocky Mountain National Park. But had the innocent tourist recently visited �oethe Balkan urban phoenix,” as the list labeled the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he would most certainly have run into packs of stray dogs roaming the city. Fri, 21 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/opinion/sunday/stray-dogs-and-stateless-babies.html?_r=0 http://www.euractiv.de/ukraine-und-eu/artikel/eckhard-cordes-russland-muss-faktor-in-ukraine-bleiben-008494 Berlin must take on an active, coordinative role between Brussels and Moscow, said an official from Germany's Eastern European economic relations committee, adding that an EU-Russia summit, like the one that happened on Tuesday (28 January), is definitely not constructive Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.euractiv.de/ukraine-und-eu/artikel/eckhard-cordes-russland-muss-faktor-in-ukraine-bleiben-008494 http://www.iwallerstein.com/syria-intractable-dilemmas/ There was a time when all, or almost all, actors in the Middle East had clear positions. Other actors were able to anticipate, with a high degree of success, how this or that actor would react to any new important development. That time is gone. If we look at the civil war in Syria today, we will rapidly see that not only are there a wide range of objectives that different actors set themselves, but also that each of the actors is beset by ferocious internal debates about what position it should be taking. Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.iwallerstein.com/syria-intractable-dilemmas/ http://www.robert-schuman.eu/fr/questions-d-europe/0299-la-politique-etrangere-et-de-securite-europeenne-politique-commune-ou-agregat-de Foreign Policy is the flip-side of State sovereignty. According to General de Gaulle it results from the three levers of sovereignty: the diplomacy it expresses, the army it supports and the police which covers it. It articulates the inside and outside. It is the area of political choice and will, of verb and also action. Diplomacy and war are by excellence the affair of the State, the heart of sovereignty, the expression of "Westphalian" international relations. Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.robert-schuman.eu/fr/questions-d-europe/0299-la-politique-etrangere-et-de-securite-europeenne-politique-commune-ou-agregat-de http://www.idea.int/americas/latin-america-in-2014-elections-and-football.cfm Just when football passions start to simmer, fights for political power in Latin America are also in the making because 2014 will be a year of intense electoral activity in Latin America. More than 50% of Latin American citizens will be summoned to cast their vote. There will be seven presidential elections in total �"in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil and Uruguay�" and local, regional, and legislative elections in Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, and Haiti. And, also this year (who can forget!) the FIFA World Cup will be held in Brazil. Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.idea.int/americas/latin-america-in-2014-elections-and-football.cfm http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36494&lan=EN The upcoming CELAC summit of Presidents (Havana, 28-29 Jan.) poses the question as to whether the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will be able to combine all the overlapping endeavours in the region, giving them a homogeneous direction, taking into account their similitude and differences, their changes and adaptations, in a scenario where initiatives with a life-span of half a century, such as the Andean Community (CAN), live alongside others such as CELAC itself, with scarcely two years of existence. Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36494&lan=EN http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/22/geneva-ii-syria-5-things Wednesday's international meeting, known as Geneva II, is aimed at ending the Syrian conflict. Based on the Geneva Communiqué of 30 June 2012, it envisages a transitional government with full executive powers with members of both the government and opposition. Here are four points to bear in mind: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/22/geneva-ii-syria-5-things http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/javier-solana-explains-what-is-at-stake-at-the-geneva-ii-middle-east-peace-conference The Geneva II Middle East peace conference, to be held on January 22, will take place against a backdrop of singularly appalling numbers: Syria’s brutal civil has left an estimated 130,000 dead, 2.3 million refugees registered in neighboring countries, and some four million more internally displaced. Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/javier-solana-explains-what-is-at-stake-at-the-geneva-ii-middle-east-peace-conference http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36446&lan=EN The political chessboard of Latin America has been shaken up in recent years by the appearance of the Pacific Alliance, a regional bloc made up of Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile. This is no accident: these are four countries which have Free Trade Agreements with the United States, and whose recent governments have been for the most part conservative: Peña Nieto in Mexico, Santos in Colombia, Humala in Peru and Piñera in Chile. What are their organizing principles? What kind of integration are these countries seeking? Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36446&lan=EN http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303393804579310520813967570 The president's fecklessness risks undoing a decade of sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303393804579310520813967570 http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/927.php This article reviews the background and the implications of two transitions in Brazil: the political transition from a military regime (1964-85) to democracy (1985-present), and the economic transition from import-substituting industrialization (ISI, 1930-80) to neoliberalism (1990-present). It subsequently examines how neoliberal economic policies were implemented in a democracy, under the centre-right administrations led by Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-98, 1998-2002), and the centre-left administrations led by Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula, 2003-06, 2007-10) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-present). The article concludes with a reflection about the limitations of these policies, and of neoliberal democracy more generally. Mon, 13 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/927.php http://en.qantara.de/content/georges-corm-on-the-conflicts-in-the-arab-world-forget-religion In his new book, the Lebanese historian Georges Corm criticises the tendency in the West to see the conflicts in the Arab world almost exclusively in a religious context. In reality, he says, the struggles in the states of the Arab Spring are for the fair distribution of economic power and democratic participation. Wed, 08 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/georges-corm-on-the-conflicts-in-the-arab-world-forget-religion http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/world/middleeast/iran-offers-military-aid-but-not-troops-to-iraq.html?ref=world&_r=0 Even as the United States and Iran pursue negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program, they find themselves on the same side of a range of regional issues surrounding an insurgency raging across the Middle East. Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/world/middleeast/iran-offers-military-aid-but-not-troops-to-iraq.html?ref=world&_r=0 http://thediplomat.com/2014/01/southeast-asia-10-trends-to-watch-for-in-2014/ As we move into 2014, it is useful not only to reflect on what happened in 2013, but to project what some of the key developments in 2014 might be. As I did last year, I have attempted to articulate the top 10 trends in Southeast Asia to watch for during the rest of the year. Wed, 08 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://thediplomat.com/2014/01/southeast-asia-10-trends-to-watch-for-in-2014/ http://www.globalresearch.ca/religious-ngos-civil-society-and-the-united-nations/5364000 A new study by the University of Kent’s Department of Religious Studies in the United Kingdom has revealed that more than 70% of the United Nation’s religious non-governmental organisations are Christian. The report, religious NGOs and the United Nations, calls for better clarity in how religious NGOs are represented at the UN and for more emphasis to be placed on religious tolerance. Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.globalresearch.ca/religious-ngos-civil-society-and-the-united-nations/5364000 http://www.idea.int/americas/latin-america-2013-political-and-electoral-balance.cfm 2013 was an intense year in Latin America, full of important developments, including the death of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro’s succession via tight and questioned elections; Rafael Correa’s re-election in Ecuador and the return of Michelle Bachelet to power in Chile. Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.idea.int/americas/latin-america-2013-political-and-electoral-balance.cfm http://www.iwallerstein.com/south-africa-mandela/ The icon is dead. Long live what? The world was treated in December 2013 to a celebration of Nelson Mandela’s funeral that was incredible. The elegies were never-ending. More heads of state and government, past and present, came to pay homage than any other funeral in history. There were to be sure some dissenting voices among commentators, but really very few. There was no doubt quite a bit of hypocrisy in the celebration, but there were also expressions of genuine grief and real appreciation for an extraordinary person. It was the last hurrah for someone that South Africans called Tata Madiba. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.iwallerstein.com/south-africa-mandela/ http://french.ruvr.ru/2014_01_02/La-guerre-nucleaire-est-plus-proche-quon-le-croit-6040/ The humanity has inched closer to the precipice of an all-out nuclear war than ever before, closer than it was even at the height of the historic Cold War standoff between the US and the Soviet Union. Thu, 02 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://french.ruvr.ru/2014_01_02/La-guerre-nucleaire-est-plus-proche-quon-le-croit-6040/ http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/16/pers-d16.html The release of a United Nations chemical weapons inspectors’ report pointing to multiple sarin gas attacks carried out by so-called �oerebel” forces further exposes the Obama administration’s lies about Syrian government responsibility for an August 21 chemical shelling of the Ghouta area outside of Damascus. Mon, 16 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/16/pers-d16.html http://silentcrownews.com/wordpress/?p=2696 Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://silentcrownews.com/wordpress/?p=2696 http://www.globalresearch.ca/politicized-nobel-prize-rewarding-those-who-best-contribute-to-war-chaos-and-the-repeal-of-civil-liberties/5363121 Recently a news came from Washington that some US congressmen initiated that the Nobel Peace Award for 2013 be given to the Lady Catherine Ashton, EU Commissar for Foreign Policy and Security, Ivica Dacic, Prime Minister of Serbia and Hashim Tachi, �oePrime Minister of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosova”, in recognition for reaching so called Brussels Agreement on Normalization, under EU auspices, in April 2013. Tue, 31 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.globalresearch.ca/politicized-nobel-prize-rewarding-those-who-best-contribute-to-war-chaos-and-the-repeal-of-civil-liberties/5363121 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36314&lan=EN Today it is a given that Europe has screwed up, that it is screwed over. There are various diagnostics. Some think that it is due to the laziness of the Southerners, that the Mediterranean climate and the siesta made them live above their means (we have heard this enough, for some time now in Latin America). Others blame the rigidity of the German Central Bank that dominates the troika and imposes its nostrums on the other economies. Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36314&lan=EN http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/12/06/commentary/why-is-the-u-s-ok-with-israel-having-nukes-but-not-iran/#.UqmmrdLuLTp Iranian officials sometimes respond to accusations that Tehran is seeking a nuclear weapons capability by replying that not only do they not want a bomb but that they’d actually like to see a nuclear-weapons-free Middle East. Yes, this is surely in part a deflection, meant to shift attention away from concerns about Iran’s nuclear activities by not-so-subtly nodding to the one country in the region that does have nuclear weapons: Israel. Could Iran have a point? Fri, 06 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/12/06/commentary/why-is-the-u-s-ok-with-israel-having-nukes-but-not-iran/#.UqmmrdLuLTp http://lecercle.lesechos.fr/economistes-project-syndicate/autres-auteurs/221186181/quelques-reflexions-dune-prisonniere-ukrainie?xtor=EPR-1500-[NL_meilleurs_articles_hebdo]-20131209-[accueil] Incarceration is said to leave you with a feeling of helplessness and vulnerability. But the truth of life for a political prisoner, even for one on a hunger strike, is the opposite. As a prisoner, I have been forced to focus on what is essential about myself, my political beliefs, and my country. So I can almost feel the presence of the brave women and men, old and young, who have gathered in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities to defend their dreams of a democratic and European future. In prison, your hopes and dreams become your reality. Fri, 06 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://lecercle.lesechos.fr/economistes-project-syndicate/autres-auteurs/221186181/quelques-reflexions-dune-prisonniere-ukrainie?xtor=EPR-1500-[NL_meilleurs_articles_hebdo]-20131209-[accueil] http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/4371061-l-ue-face-sa-seconde-refondation After five long years, the economic crisis has left a deep imprint in the EU, increasing mistrust between member states, but also cementing the belief in a common destiny. It's time to bring renewed political leadership, writes El País. Tue, 03 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/4371061-l-ue-face-sa-seconde-refondation http://issuu.com/transparencyinternational/docs/cpi2013_brochure_single_pages?e=2496456/5813913 The Corruption Perception Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption in countries worldwide, scoring them from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). Covering 177 countries, the 2013 index paints a worrying picture. Tue, 03 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://issuu.com/transparencyinternational/docs/cpi2013_brochure_single_pages?e=2496456/5813913 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36189&lan=EN Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 offers a warning that the abuse of power, secret dealings and bribery continue to ravage societies around the world. More than two thirds of the 177 countries in the 2013 index score below 50, on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean). Tue, 03 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36189&lan=EN http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/4357681-eu-still-has-winning-hand Was the recent decision by Ukraine not to sign a major association agreement with the European Union a failure of EU foreign policy? Despite some understandable hand-wringing in Brussels, the answer must be a resounding �oeno.” While it is true that this week’s Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius will now be unable to �oedeliver” Ukraine as the crown jewel of the European Neighborhood Policy, Europeans have gained much in the diplomatic wrangling of the last six months. Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/4357681-eu-still-has-winning-hand http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4457404,00.html Deal reached in Geneva between Iran, western powers left certain sides satisfied, others less. As Iran, US are triumphant, Israel, Saudi Arabia come up short. How does deal affect Israel's Mideast neighbors? Political balance sheet Mon, 25 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4457404,00.html http://www.euractiv.fr/development-policy/la-legislation-europeenne-sur-la-news-531737 A planned certification scheme to prevent warlords funding their militias by selling minerals to European firms has been delayed, EurActiv has learned, and fears are growing for its future. Sat, 16 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.euractiv.fr/development-policy/la-legislation-europeenne-sur-la-news-531737 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36115&lan=EN As part of the events held during 2013 to mark the Tribunal’s twentieth anniversary, the ICTY is convening a two-day conference on 26-27 November 2013 in Sarajevo to consider aspects of the Tribunal’s legacy in the former Yugoslavia. Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36115&lan=EN http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-john-kerrys-middle-east-dream-world/2013/11/10/5b17d2d2-47cf-11e3-b6f8-3782ff6cb769_story.html Imagine a world in which the Middle East is not descending into carnage and chaos but is on the brink of a monumental series of breakthroughs. By next spring,Iran’s nuclear program will be secured and Egypt will be a liberal democracy. Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has stepped aside. And, not least, Israelis and Palestinians have settled on the terms for a Palestinian state Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-john-kerrys-middle-east-dream-world/2013/11/10/5b17d2d2-47cf-11e3-b6f8-3782ff6cb769_story.html http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36081&lan=EN In 1972 a team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Dennis and Donella Meadows and commissioned by the Club of Rome, studied the interaction of population growth and economic growth with the finite resources of the planet, employing what was then a new tool: computer modelling. Employing the most powerful computers of the time, Meadows et. al. managed large quantities of variables such as human population, industrial growth, food production and environmental pollution, along with certain constants, such as non-renewable resources and the limits of the planet's ecosystems. The study's results were disturbing: if the rates of economic growth and natural resource use were to continue, there would be a catastrophic environmental and economic collapse sometime in the twenty-first century. Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=36081&lan=EN http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/24/eu-summit-with-one-voice-editorial European Union summits ought to be a window of opportunity to show that Europe makes a difference. With populist scepticism about the EU on the rise in many countries, and with difficult elections to the European parliament looming next year, summits like the one taking place in Brussels this week have special importance. Thu, 24 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/24/eu-summit-with-one-voice-editorial http://www.friendsofeurope.org/Contentnavigation/Publications/Libraryoverview/tabid/1186/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3569/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-must-help-end-BuddhistMuslim-violence.aspx Myanmar opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s presence in Strasbourg to receive the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize is a potent reminder of just how far the Nobel laureate and her once-pariah nation have travelled in the last few years. Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.friendsofeurope.org/Contentnavigation/Publications/Libraryoverview/tabid/1186/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3569/Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-must-help-end-BuddhistMuslim-violence.aspx http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Regions-and-countries/Kosovo/Kosovo-a-new-start-for-Eulex.-Maybe-141941 The resources invested by the EU in Kosovo have not affected the power of organized crime and the level of corruption within local institutions. The recent turnover in Eulex's top management and the pressure from Berlin could, however, improve the effectiveness of the European mission Tue, 22 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Regions-and-countries/Kosovo/Kosovo-a-new-start-for-Eulex.-Maybe-141941 http://www.iwallerstein.com/samson-complex/ We seem to have a lot of putative Samsons these days, who are blocking or seeking to block what they consider to be dangerous �oecompromises” with the enemy. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister, is saying that a bad deal is worse than no deal. He is referring to what he sees as the U.S.-Russian agreement on Syria and the possible U.S.-Iranian accord. In Colombia, the former Conservative president is inveighing against the current Conservative president because he is negotiating with the guerilla organization known as FARC under the auspices of Cuba and Brazil. Tue, 15 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.iwallerstein.com/samson-complex/ http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/4236291-ecoutons-aussi-les-eurosceptiques Apparently, EU politicians not only want people to think about the EU, they also want to decide what they think. They should be more open to debate with Eurosceptics in all layers of the population. Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/4236291-ecoutons-aussi-les-eurosceptiques http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/4230781-l-europe-brille-sous-un-ciel-sombre Life in the European Union appears better than in many other parts of the world. Yet, this well-being is undermined by the euro crisis combined with a loss of confidence by citizens in their institutions. This trend will be one of the major issues in the upcoming EU ballot. Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/4230781-l-europe-brille-sous-un-ciel-sombre http://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2013/10/10/syrie-executions-et-prises-d-otages-par-des-rebelles Armed opposition groups in Syria killed at least 190 civilians and seized over 200 as hostages during a military offensive that began in rural Latakia governorate on August 4, 2013, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. At least 67 of the victims were executed or unlawfully killed in the operation around pro-government Alawite villages. Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2013/10/10/syrie-executions-et-prises-d-otages-par-des-rebelles http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/4191081-votons-pour-le-peuple-europeen Since there is no clear concept of solidarity among the nations of the European Union, it is time to create a nation based on a common political project, according to a Spanish philosopher. The 2014 European elections should be the first step. Excerpts. Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/4191081-votons-pour-le-peuple-europeen http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catherine-ashton-excells-in-western-talks-on-iran-nuclear-program-a-925514.html The European Union's foreign policy apparatus is often written off as trivial. But its leader, Catherine Ashton, is the one whose tenacious diplomacy has brought the West and Iran back to the table to negotiate Tehran's nuclear program and related sanctions. Tue, 01 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catherine-ashton-excells-in-western-talks-on-iran-nuclear-program-a-925514.html http://en.qantara.de/content/israel-und-die-arabellion-der-unwahrscheinliche-gewinner-des-arabischen-fruehlings The paradox of the Arab revolutions is that they have contributed to Israel's integration as a strategic partner for some countries in the region. Israel's government should now consider making serious sacrifices for the sake of long-term survival. Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/israel-und-die-arabellion-der-unwahrscheinliche-gewinner-des-arabischen-fruehlings http://en.qantara.de/content/ueberwachung-und-innere-sicherheit-nach-911-wie-buecher-tragende-esel-0 For months, we have been kept on tenterhooks by the revelations of former US intelligence agency employee Edward Snowden. We discover that we are living in a police state, in which intelligence agencies register our digital footprints with the help of Internet giants such as Google and Facebook. Security authorities log information on who we communicate and when, and can read anything, should they so wish. Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://en.qantara.de/content/ueberwachung-und-innere-sicherheit-nach-911-wie-buecher-tragende-esel-0 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35764&lan=EN First of all, we have no proof that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. Even if proofs were provided by Western governments, we have to remain skeptical, remembering the Tonkin Gulf incident and the Vietnam war, the incubator baby massacre in Kuwait and the first Gulf war, the Racak massacre and the Kosovo war, the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and the second Gulf war, the threat of massacre in Benghazi and the Libyan war. All these justifications for previous wars were fabricated or dubious. Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35764&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35752&lan=EN For years �"with the terrible outcome of the unlawful invasion of Iraq in my memory and heart, and later given the obscene spectacle of Gaddafi’s assassination�" I have continuously insisted that a re-founding of the United Nations it is both indispensable and urgent. Another attack, without awaiting the report of the UN’s inspectors �"as was the case in Iraq with the concocted lie suggesting that Saddam Hussein’s regime possessed �oeweapons of mass destruction”- would once again constitute a blood-stained affront to the United Nations’ jurisdiction. Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35752&lan=EN http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/4127031-une-puissance-atonique It took 17 days to Europeans to raise their collective voice on the chemical massacre of August 21 in Syria. And they did that only after the intervention by the American, John Kerry. Humiliating. At the same time, Europe, which saw the birth of the GSM technology that dominated the global mobile telephony, is watching Nokia, the last major European producer of smartphones, get swallowed up by America’s Microsoft. Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/4127031-une-puissance-atonique http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35744&lan=EN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged leaders at the Group of 20 (G20) summit in St. Petersburg to explore ways to avoid further militarization of the conflict in Syria and to revitalize the search for a political settlement, warning that �oetragic consequences” could follow military action. Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35744&lan=EN http://www.adolfoperezesquivel.org/?p=3324 The situation in Syria is worrying and once again the U.S., setting themselves up as policeman of the world, seeks to invade Syria in the name of �oefreedom” and �oehuman rights”. Your predecessor, George W. Bush, in his messianic madness knew how to implement religious fundamentalism to perform messianic wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. When stated that he talked to God and God told him that he had to attack Iraq, he did because it was God’s ruling to export �oefreedom” to the world. Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.adolfoperezesquivel.org/?p=3324 http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/20130830trib000782445/la-tragedie-syrienne-illustre-la-perte-d-influence-de-la-mediterranee-sur-l-echiquier-mondial.html The abrupt U-turnof US President Barack Obama on his threat to launch a military strike against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria exposes the United States’ hesitations at getting dragged into the Mediterranean for a long stretch. Congress may yet give the green light, but the refusal of the British parliament to go along with a strike has left the United States isolated. Germany, Italy, and Poland have also announced their reluctance, leaving only France on a European level. Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/20130830trib000782445/la-tragedie-syrienne-illustre-la-perte-d-influence-de-la-mediterranee-sur-l-echiquier-mondial.html http://alainet.org/active/66325 Less than a decade ago the international gas market was largely shaped by US imports. Today the United States is about to become a gas-exporting nation. This change is profoundly affecting global geopolitics: Shale gas exploitation is theoretically viable in many parts of the world, especially Europe and China, so major new market players may emerge. Fri, 09 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://alainet.org/active/66325 http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/08/climate-and-conflict EARTH'S climate is changing, whether you like it or not. As it does, other changes�"like rising sea levels or falling crop yields�"follow. It is easy to see how this might lead to conflict. Competition for ever scarcer resources such as arable land and its bounty can turn ugly. As the price of food rises the poor, who spend more of their income on it, are hit more than the rich, exacerbating income inequality and leading to disaffection, resentment and, possibly, violence. Whether any of this actually happens, though, has remained moot. Now Solomon Hsiang, of the University of California at Berkeley and his colleagues come to the perturbing conclusion that it does. As they report in Science, climate change does indeed stoke strife, from cross-border wars to homicide. Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/08/climate-and-conflict http://www.surjournal.org/esp/conteudos/getArtigo16.php?artigo=16,artigo_05.htm The powerful ideas that shaped human societies up until the past three hundred years were almost all religious, with the notable exception of Chinese Confucianism. Since the Peace of Westphalia,1 Liberalism was the main secular ideology to produce a worldwide effect, a doctrine associated with the rise of the middle class, first commercial and then industrial, in parts of Europe in the 17th century (FUKUYAMA, 2012). As enunciated by classical thinkers such as Locke, Montesquieu and Mill, Liberalism preaches that the legitimacy of State authority derives from the State’s ability to protect the individual rights of its citizens and that the power of the State needs to be limited by law. Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.surjournal.org/esp/conteudos/getArtigo16.php?artigo=16,artigo_05.htm http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35610&lan=EN Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35610&lan=EN http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/the-revolt-of-the-global-middle-class/277125/ Sun, 23 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/the-revolt-of-the-global-middle-class/277125/ http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35492&lan=EN The United Nations General Assembly has approved a global arms trade treaty that failed to achieve unanimous support last week but garnered the support of a majority of Member States when put to a vote today. The resolution containing the text of the treaty, which regulates the international trade in conventional arms, received 154 votes in favour. Three Member States �" Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Iran and Syria �" voted against the decision, while 23 countries abstained. Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35492&lan=EN http://www.fsm2013.org/fr/node/7266 The World Social Forum DIgnity-Karama will take place as foreseen in Tunis, from the 26th to the 30th of March 2013. The active involvment of movements, organizations, trade unions, platforms and networks from Tunisia, Maghreb, Machrek, Sub-saharan African, Americas, Europe and from all over the world is allowing us to hope a successful, popular and dynamic Forum. More than 4000 organizations and networks are already registered and proposed more than 1500 activities. The international organizations, social movements and unions will come to Tunis to pay tribute, express their solidarity to movements from the society from Tunisia, Maghreb and Machrek, to their past or current revolts and struggles, for social justice, democracy and dignity. A movement which, despite the current difficulties in Tunisia, is asserting itself with strenght and determination. Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.fsm2013.org/fr/node/7266 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35395&lan=EN Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35395&lan=EN http://www.robert-schuman.eu/question_europe.php?num=qe-252 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.robert-schuman.eu/question_europe.php?num=qe-252 http://www.leap2020.eu/GEAB-N-67-is-available-Global-systemic-crisis-October-2012-The-global-economy-sucked-into-a-black-hole-and-world_a12189.html Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.leap2020.eu/GEAB-N-67-is-available-Global-systemic-crisis-October-2012-The-global-economy-sucked-into-a-black-hole-and-world_a12189.html http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35236&lan=EN Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35236&lan=EN http://cupuladospovos.org.br/es/2012/07/declaracion-final-de-la-cumbre-de-los-pueblos-en-rio20/# Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://cupuladospovos.org.br/es/2012/07/declaracion-final-de-la-cumbre-de-los-pueblos-en-rio20/# http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35178&lan=EN Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35178&lan=EN http://www.subversivefestival.com/txtl/1/4/en/home Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.subversivefestival.com/txtl/1/4/en/home http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35070&lan=EN Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=35070&lan=EN http://www.wsws.org/francais/News/2012/mai2012/isra-m11.shtml Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.wsws.org/francais/News/2012/mai2012/isra-m11.shtml http://lecercle.lesechos.fr/economistes-project-syndicate/jeffrey-sachs/221146129/monde-a-derive?xtor=EPR-1500-[NL_meilleurs_articles_hebdo]-20120426-[accueil] Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=34882&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=34864&lan=EN Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=34864&lan=EN http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/1249891-le-declin-de-l-europe-n-est-pas-pour-demain Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/1249891-le-declin-de-l-europe-n-est-pas-pour-demain http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=34833&lan=EN Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=34833&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=34802&lan=EN Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=34802&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=34800&lan=EN Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=34800&lan=EN 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the season. 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http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2019519,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2018450,00.html Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2018450,00.html http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=25918&lan=EN Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=25918&lan=EN http://www.mondialisations.org/php/public/art.php?id=25917&lan=EN In the scientific study of politics there is still an antiquated disciplinary division between �oepolitical science” and �oeinternational relations”, or rather the separation of the study of domestic politics from the study of international politics. The point of view that still guides political research is the state-centric one. Using the state-centric paradigm to study politics hinders the progress of knowledge. It is a theoretical error to separate the study of domestic politics from the study of international politics since this approach prevents us from considering the reciprocal relations between these two spheres of politics and thus from studying politics as a whole. 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