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Mark Mazower is an award-winning historian and writer, specializing in modern Greece, 20th century Europe and international history. His most recent book, Governing the World, tells the story of the rise of internationalism following the ...
Jean-Michel Sévérino, the former head of both the French development agency as well as a Regional Director of the World Bank, sat down with The Global Journal to discuss the future of the ...
Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and founder of Wikipedia, an online, free-content encyclopaedia that has grown into the fifth most visited website globally. Wales established the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation in 2003 to support Wikipedia ...
Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, addresses an audience at Bilkent Univeristy Ankara upon receiving a Doctorat Honoris Causa, 15 March 2013. Ladies and gentlemen, Being with you in "bilim kenti," the city ...
Interview with Sherif H. Kamel, dean of the Business School at the American University in Cairo by our correspondent Gael Favari. What is your view of the current situation in Egypt? Firstly, I look at ...
Peter Poschen works for the International Labor Organization (ILO) as the Director of Job Creation and Enterprise Development. He is the main author of the latest Green Jobs Report, Working Towards Sustainable Development. In his ...
The Executive Director of the UN Environment Program and the Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, Achim Steiner sat down with The Global Journal to discuss his views on the transition towards a green economy ...
Russian protestors took to the streets in Moscow over the past three days in Arab Spring-like protests alleging election fraud in Russia’s parliamentary elections, which took place on Sunday. But instead of Russia’s ...
After 40,000 Russians faced freezing temperatures and snow to protest on Saturday, President Dmitry Medvedev called for a probe into election fraud, which demonstrators allege took place during December's parliamentary elections. Despite Russian ...
An award-winning political scientist specializing in the role of international regimes, John Ruggie was appointed in 2005 by then United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, to be the first ever Special Representative for Business and Human ...
During his visit to China, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy said that the present shifts in the balance of power in global trade lean in favor of emerging economies have defined the need for a "new ...
International governance is often discussed in fora designated by cryptic letters. The ‘Gs’ have referred to the Group of 8 (G8), the Group of 7 (G7), the Group of 2 (G2) and now the Group ...
After 18 years of negotiations, the initial bid by Boris Yeltsin for Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1993 has finally paid off. The long-lasting negotiations hold the current organization’s ...
The Assembly of European Regions is organizing a conference on “The Road to Rio: Regions Building the Green Economy” in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 7th, 2012. Geneva is the chosen city for R20’s events ...
Dr. John Coates is a former Wall Street derivatives trader turned neuroscientist. He uses his dual expertise to understand the way individuals contribute to market instability, studying the impact of biology on financial risk-taking. His ...
Gilles-Eric Séralini’s research has focused most recently on the health effects of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), with the controversial results published in September in the scientific journal "Food and Chemical Toxicology", and for ...
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 ...
The Special US Envoy for Climate Change, Todd Stern, said he is “not pessimistic” about a climate change conference scheduled for later this year but he warned that the US will back a revised Kyoto ...
A UN report timed for release to coincide with the Fourth UN Conference on Least Developed countries (LDCs) in Istanbul (May 10-13) , notes that countries with lower carbon profiles are better placed to make their ...
Even as G20 leaders were meeting in Paris to discuss Europe's dire financial crisis, a leading advisor for the People's Bank of China, Li Daokui said in Beijing that the euro won't ...
Last July, French thinker Jacques Attali proposed in The Global Journal to merge the G20 and the Security Council of the United Nations. In its new issue, the magazine asked Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon his thoughts ...
Interview with Joseph Deiss, former President of the 65th session of the General Assembly Imagine that your organization did not exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you do? How would it ...
One year after the award of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize (NPP) to Chinese opposant Liu Xiaobo, five former Nobel Prize winners are leading the international campaign to call for his release. Chinese academics retaliated ...
Kathryn Bolkovac has raised concerns over the ‘’ Whistleblower Improvement Act ‘’ by joining the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) in advocating for the safeguard of the rights and protections of whistleblowers. POGO, an independent nonprofit organization ...
The recent attacks on diplomatic missions in the Middle East have brought into focus the discussion on embassies and the tension between their function and protection. It reminds me of sessions in the early 1990s ...
The film “The Whistleblower,” has brought back into focus the horrors that were inflicted on many, many women in Bosnia as a consequence of the conflict, this time, not the rape of women in war ...
Leah McGrath Goodman, author of The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World’s Oil Market, talks to the Global Journal about the self-anointed kings of the New York Mercantile Exchange and the floating trading ...
Dominic Sam is Liberia’s United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Country Director. A UN official of many years’ standing, Dominic Sam has worked in Cameroon, the United States and Liberia. His views are based on ...
The transport industry’s leading trade fair, InnoTrans, was the site today of the launch of the inaugural Global SNCF Mobility Index. A unique collaboration between The Global Journal and French rail company SNCF, the ...
A month ago, as The Global Journal was preparing its May/June issue, I interviewed Adela Navarro Bello. Adela is a Mexican journalist. She has worked for the magazine Zeta for over 25 years, and ...
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