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The myth of female peacefulness has penetrated no field as greatly as foreign policy. Though there has been a scattering of female wartime leaders over the centuries, this myth has retained its primacy as women ...
At WCIT-12 in Dubai in December, the 193 member states of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) met to review a treaty that has formed the global framework for telecommunications regulation for almost 25 years. A ...
A fiction writer from the Golden Age of Russian literature could never have dreamed up a scenario as absurd and a story as far-fetched as the persecution of the punk rock band Pussy Riot, found ...
Introduction Today, most governments are focused on understanding the economic growth they rely on, and take strong measures to sustain this growth. Why are they so focused on this element? It is very clear that ...
Too many girls still renounce to pursue natural science studies, even though they have the same capabilities as boys do. Although women equal or outnumber men in most study fields in the European Union (EU-27 ...
Should democratic governments step into the sovereign affairs of other states in order to prevent genocide or mass killings?During World War II, German cleric Dietrich Bonhoeffer actively conspired against Hitler to resist the persecution ...
The other day at the WTO Public Forum, a 3-day annual gathering of government, civil society and business participants, it came as no surprise when Emmanuel Faber, Chief Operating Officer of Danone, the French food ...
Students from developing countries would, one would think, be the ones studying development economics. But, often, development studies is the science of studying the rear view mirror. The British study the Indians, the Indians study ...
As a graduate student searching for a job in the humanitarian sector, it has been suggested to me that employers look for key words in cover letters and on CVs - words that imply that the ...
François Hollande has just been elected president of France: the first socialist president since François Mitterrand (1981-1995). The outcome was narrower than polls had predicted: 51.7 percent for the winner and 49 ...
The euro crisis has upset traditional ideas of what makes a nation powerful by turning Greece into one of the world’s most feared countries. It illustrates how the globalized economy gives almost any nation ...
When you think of Africa what comes to mind? Go ahead give it a go, and honestly say the first things that popped into your head. Your answers will probably cluster around the same topics ...
No stone has been left unturned – or so it seems. Syria is experiencing a full-scale civil war. If Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, the world's most eminent diplomatic figure and renowned mediator resigned ...
The last two months have seen unprecedented friction between the United States and China over allegations of attacks by the latter on the computer networks and sensitive information of American business and government. The public ...
When people in Scotland or Flanders or Catalonia talk of independence, they have an invisible but powerful ally: globalization. Nations no longer need as much territory to be viable as they did in the period ...
Turkey's threat to cut electricity exports to Syria, part of an effort to pressure the Syrian government to halt its deadly attacks on protestors, illuminates a hidden dynamic of international relations: how aspects of ...
In his article “The Challenges for European Identity” Francis Fukuyama claims the undergoing crisis in the European Union is primarily a crisis over its identity rather than economic or political foundations. While the author's ...
The idea of Greece selling some islands to alleviate its debt problem was quickly dismissed when it was proposed last year, before any serious analysis or public debate could occur. Yet on reflection, the idea ...
For a long time the Arctic region[1] has been viewed as barren wasteland far from civilization due to its inaccessibility arising from layers of thick ice. As a consequence, territorial claims have been relatively ...
Socrates believed that the first step towards gaining true knowledge was eliminating misinformation and realizing how much you don’t know, a state he called ‘Aporia’. The Chinese have a similar saying which suggests that ...
By André Schneider (André Schneider Global Advisory) and Mathis Wackernagel (Global Footprint Network) Introduction Today’s world is becoming increasingly interconnected and globalization is permeating all aspects of our lives. A successful company has to ...
"The New Settlers" was the title of a program on French-Swiss television last Thursday that took the pulse of the housing crisis in the Lake Geneva Region. To lighten the mood of the serious subject ...
Africa is being cooked by climate change, and those causing the crisis should compensate the victims. This is probably the only hope for any top-down action at the Durban COP17 next month, with the Green ...
As the world becomes more intertwined, an increasingly complex supply chain has emerged. From computers to coffee, the end products that consumers purchase often travel thousands of miles before landing in the hands of their ...
Throughout the four years of the global financial crisis, nobody has spoken up in favor of greedy bankers or big bonuses for executives of failing financial institutions. It’s about time someone did. Here’s ...
In 12 years volunteering for the Red Cross, I have never seen a catastrophe like the current food crisis here in the Sahel region of Mali. I live in Kayes town, which is in west ...
The recent election to parliament of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party heralds a new dawn for this struggling South East Asian nation, now officially known as Myanmar. The Nobel laureate ...
With the recent economy forcing employers worldwide to get more stringent with their resources, several industries have seen increases in the outsourcing of work to in-country as well as international freelance workers. This trend has ...
The bizarre confusion of morals in the global arms trade was brought to light late last week when the U.S. Department of Defense went on a PR offensive to justify their buying attack helicopters ...
Equatorial Guinea brutalizes its people like North Korea and Syria. So why is a prominent U.S. foundation cozying up to its dictator? In the campaign for human rights and justice in apartheid South Africa ...
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