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Mallika Sarabhai is a noted Indian dancer and choreographer, turned political activist. She first came to international notice when she played a lead role in Peter Brook’s The Mahabharata, first in French and then ...
There is probably no more pertinent global question right now than the China question. Adding his voice to the chorus of queries is American director Brook Silva-Braga, whose documentary The China Question trots out an ...
Shall we see France, or some other democratic country, shipping a statue of Liberty across the sea to China? Would China refuse it, as the Americans did, in their day? Is freedom too precious or ...
Exactly one year ago, the Global Journal was founded jointly in Geneva and New York, a transatlantic link between two heartlands of the United Nations. What was unforeseen was that a bridge would also rapidly ...
We thought the word “progress” had disappeared from the dictionary, replaced by a blank space and a note: “See ‘crisis’ or ‘depression’”. And here it is making a comeback where least expected. The lead weight ...
While they are preparing for their first World Cup in 2014 and theirfirst Olympic Games in 2016, Brazilians can make history for an even better reason. If only they succeed in pacifying one of the ...
Just as many thought cap-and-trade was dead in the United States,California –the eighth largest economy in the world– introduced a statewidecarbon-trading program. Can one state put a whole nation back on trackand send a ...
In the columns of the Global Journal just one year ago, Pascal Lamy described global governance as politics still in the gaseous state. Over those 12 months, these “excited” electrons (we call them GIPS, or ...
If the idea of world governance is disturbing, the idea of an actual world government, the stage for the final dispossession of national sovereignty, is alarming. Should we regret the time when the master of ...
It has been a little under two years since the members of the Major Economies Forum, under the auspices of the White House and the direction of Todd Stern, divided up priority areas for research ...
This simple question would alarm a lot of people. But not French essayist and former advisor to French President François Mitterrand, Jacques Attali. Before launching the Estates General of the World, he agreed to ...
The United Nations New York headquarters has decided to organize a public screening of the controversial film The Whistleblower which doesn’t exactly make the UN look good. The film, starring Rachel Weisz and Vanessa ...
Dr Comtesse is among those who believe and support the emergence of new governance. Master in Mathematics and PhD in Computer Science (University of Geneva), Xavier L. Comtesse worked in academic institutions, as a start-up ...
As a child, Yves Béhar dreamed of becoming a writer. Inspired by the battle scenes covering the Turkish carpets in his parents’ home and the French bestseller Papillon he devoured in his youth, B ...
Photographer Marrigje de Maar takes us on a personal journey into many Chinese homes. Each picture speaks about an individual or a group of people. The sense of welcome is present, whatever life has given ...
An Accessible, Clear and Concise Account of International Trade Understanding Global Trade focuses on what lies at the core of globalization: international trade and production across national boundaries. It might seem too ambitious a scope ...
Blaise Lampen, journalist and correspondent to the United Nations for the Swiss agency ATS, has just brought out his latest book. Eight years of a journal, where the writer gives us his personal view of ...
Iran will be the country to watch in 2011. Convictions that will lead to future action are building up. There is little doubt that the process of peace in the Middle-East will be one of ...
Global Journal: What is the main concern of the Chinese monetary policy makers today? Dr Li Daokui: The main challenge to monetary policy makers in China is to strike a balance between controlling China’s ...
Jacques Attali to The Global Journal : "If Ban Ki-moon made a speech demanding the merging of the G20 and the Security Council he would not jeopardize his election, he would gain a lot of support ...
Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has set the Executive office of the R20 in Geneva with financial assistance from the Cantonal government. Located in Villa Montfleury, the executive secretariat will start operating in a couple of ...
Kathryn Bolkovac was a good cop. Back in her hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, the athletic Ms. Bolkovac once wrestled a fleeing criminal to the ground and disarmed him. Kathryn Bolkovac was just as thorough about ...
China’s first aircraft carrier made its debut five-day voyage on August 15th, returning to a crowd who welcomed the giant vessel belonging to the resurgent People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with fireworks. However, at ...
We are used to thinking about tribunals as having all the means, and the power, necessary to shed light on criminal acts. This fundamental idea is even more indispensable when it is at the service ...
Cynthia Enloe puts women at the heart of politics and international affairs In the midst of war or at the end of one as a shattered society begins to pick up the pieces, women’s ...
A fresh and factual look at the US Be careful before making sweeping generalizations about the US and its citizens until you have seen this atlas. The Real State of America: Mapping the Myths and ...
Guantánamo Bay and the future of legal “black holes”. When one nation (or clan or tribe or ethnic group) covets the land of another, the result, throughout history, has usually been aggression. It is ...
Germany is experiencing some difficult moments with the euro. Not only has the quality of its products created the best trade surplus, neck and neck with China, but it must also cope with a single ...
Like a photograph, numbers can also be worth a thousand words. With little need for lengthy comment, they have a way of bringing us back to reality. In this case, we are talking not percentages ...
For many of his readers Joe Sacco has a personal impact. The emotion is diffused but powerful; it might be perceived as a knock-out –though not many of us have had that experience– or perhaps ...
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