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Former Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou, and other renowned global actors join the Jury of GLOBAL+5 for the first ever festival of global governance. The Global Journal is proud to announce the launching of ...
US President Barack Obama’s address to the UN General Assembly’s annual General Debate, as part of the opening of its 67th session, was very much focused on the ‘Arab world’ and the territories ...
If there is one striking characteristic of the period of late Hu-Wen rule (broadly, from the 17th Party Congress in 2007 when Hu was able to have most of his key allies in the Politburo ...
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 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 ...
Long affected by war, Somalia seemed to emerge from years of hopelessness on Monday (10 September) with the election of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud by the country’s transitional parliamentarians. Widely applauded by the international community ...
Jeremy Gilley is an actor and filmmaker turned self-professed ‘peace militant’. As founder of Peace One Day, a Surreybased NGO, Gilley led a successful international grassroots campaign that culminated in the creation of UN World ...
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 ...
An interview with George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece, about debt, the challenge of structural reform, and governance in a time of crisis. At what point did you realize that your European counterparts, beyond ...
Thomas Biersteker, Director of the Programme for the Study of International Governance (PSIG) at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, is a leading scholar on the emergence and nature of ...
Diplomatic gaffes on culture as a determinant of economic performance aside, Mitt Romney’s recent trip to Israel was perhaps one of the most revelatory moments in this year’s race to the White House ...
The shaping of potentially one of the greatest multilateral funding mechanisms of the coming decade is silently under way. At the UN’s Climate Change Conference in Cancun in 2010, world leaders agreed that $100 ...
More than half a million people are killed each year as a result of lethal violence. Yet despite popular perceptions, most of these deaths occur outside of the wars that dominate our daily media diet ...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Sergei Magnitsky, and now, Pussy Riot. While these highly publicized cases are mostly known for their political nature, they also hint at deeper problems within the Russian justice system. Unwarranted arrests, unjust trials ...
In the tangled wake of North Africa’s ‘Arab Spring’, there have been early signs of a much quieter, but no less consequential, democratic movement spreading through the south of the continent. As its neighbors ...
The battle in Afghanistan continues after ten long years. Beyond the frontlines and the fighting, a generation has grown up amidst the ‘reality’ and ‘insanity’ of conflict. For one returned US Army Reserve Captain, the ...
DUST: Egypt's Forgotten Architecture, Xenia Nikolskaya, Dewi Lewis Publishing, £30. Egypt is one of the most densely populated countries in the world and has a colonial history that stretches back centuries. From 1882 until ...
Road Map to Happiness Pictures of a Street 1979-1981, Edited by Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, texts by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, graphic design by Jutta Herden, Hatje Cantz, €49.80. A book such as this ...
Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar: Stories of Food during Wartime by the World's Leading Correspondents, Matt McAllester (Ed), University of California Press, $29.95. War correspondents face dangers most journalists will never encounter. Wearing ...
Why America Needs a Left: A Historical Argument, Eli Zaretsky, Polity, $19.95. Eli Zaretsky’s Why America Needs a Left is a call to action to the young idealists of America in today’s ...
The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations, Michael L. Ross, Princeton University Press, $ 29.95. With the current high oil prices, The Oil Curse provides an interesting approach to the cause ...
The Origins of AIDS, Jacques Pépin, Cambridge University Press, €54.90, $85.00. Have you ever wondered how, where and when the global AIDS pandemic started? How it spread to all the continents of ...
Good Italy, Bad Italy - Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future, Bill Emmott, Yale University Press, $ 30.00. Italy’s most important division goes beyond the geographical differences between North and South ...
Guaranteed To Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance, Viral V. Acharya, Matthew Richardson, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh & Lawrence J. White, Princeton University Press, $ 24.95. In the prologue to Guaranteed to ...
Consumption and Its Consequences, Daniel Miller, Polity, €57.30, $64.95. Should we decrease consumption in order to prevent climate change? Or is the increasing of consumption – of basic goods in particular – a necessary step ...
Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right To Self-Governance, J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Oxford University Press, $21.95. Cosmic constitutionalism characterizes competing schools of liberal and conservative activism, seeking to achieve partisan ...
We are all agreed: living in Russia these days is not exactly a fairy tale. The country has large quantities of natural resources at its command, providing ample means for unprecedented economic development, but the ...
“Get out, you miserable dog!” For Romanian President Traian Basescu, this has been the recurrent chorus of the people publicly protesting against him. In January this year, Romania saw a minor resurgence of the revolutionary ...
The Green Climate Fund held its first Board meeting in Geneva last week (23-25 August). The organization will be the main channel to disburse the 100 billion USD to be allocated yearly– according to pledges ...
With the dust beginning to settle on the death of Meles Zenawi (21 July) —ruler of Ethiopia since 1991—Western leaders have been quick to lavish praise on his legacy. A darling of the national ...
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