28 posts
The Winds of Globalization
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From the winds of change we have crossed over to the winds of globalization, sweeping everyone in their path. A song: NickPthinks on business, EU policy, socio-economics and systemics in Europe. North America and the world...
The suicide of the West?
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Globalisation was the mantra of the 1990s. It was hailed as a new order, benign, progressive and the future. Yet it has impoverished the West as Europeans and Americans self-duped themselves with their own propaganda. What next?
"National societies become less flat" by Rene Cuperus
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In all the oversimplified discussions about globalisation, people still underestimate the ‘dialectics of globalisation’. In one phrase: The world is becoming flat, but national societies are becoming less flat. Globalisation implies two contradic...
EGAF is not a gaffe – but needs reform and expansion
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The news that the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGAF) has failed to disburse much of the money allocated to it, despite the wrenching ‘adjustments’ wrought by the Great Recession, comes, I have to say, as no surprise. It confirm...
A Global Polity for the Global Economy and the de-globalisation option
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A "global" (or WTO-wide) Economy does not work properly & cannot besustained w/o a global (or WTO-wide) Polity. That is source of current problems. Other options include de-gobalisation (eg regionalisation, eg EU, ASEAN, Trans-Pacific Partnetship, Me...
Globalisation? What globalisation? More like a figment of imagination or at best, an impression!
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The US, EU, Canada, Japan and 9 more are negotiating a controversial "ACTA" (google it). If one adds 27 EU, that still makes only 40 out of 153 WTO members Another WTO "fail"? Or is it another sign that globalisation is a figment of imagination and...
Europe, the laboratory of the world?
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Well, at least according to Jeremy Rifkin! He develops an interesting argument here linking climate change, economic recovery, energy, globalisation, the financial crisis with future opportunities: Despite the economic crisis and the struggle...
Conference 'Education and Citizenship in a Globalising World' (London, 19-20 November 2010)
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Dear Colleagues, Human rights educators will be very welcome to present at this conference.Hugh Starkey -------------Education and Citizenship in a Globalising World (19-20 November 2010, Institute of Education University of London)http://www.ioe.
Janine Wedel: Global elites undermine democracy
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Anthropologist uncovers how global elites undermine democracy from antropologi.info – anthropology in the news blog by Lorenz Janine Wedel has done something that far too few anthropolologists do: She studied powerful people. Those who rule...
First Europe, then… the world?
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A few vague thoughts towards predicting a new global geopolitics...
Nov. 15th Global Financial Summit: What kinds of cooperation and among whom?
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“As European leaders gather next week in a crescendo of meetings ahead of a Nov. 15 global financial summit – a "Bretton Woods II" in Washington – they face an old...
Outside looking in
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White House announcement today – Today, the President is inviting the leaders of the Group of 20 countries to a summit in the Washington, D.C. area, on November 15 to discuss financial markets and the global economy. The G-20 finance process, w...
Sarkozy’s Fund of Bad Advice
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By common consent, Nicolas Sarkozy has had, for the most part, a good financial crisis. But he slipped up this week when he suggested European Union member-states should create their own sovereign wealth funds to invest in European companies an...
Radical Plans
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Sarkozy has unveiled a new plan to combat the coming economic recession. It seams (German) he wants to nationalize a significant amount of industries, which can be bought right now for a bargain price. This should be done to avoid loosing control of...
Watson - Financial crisis does not mark end to free and open markets
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As French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivered a passionate defence of more European unity in Strasbourg today in the face of the multiple fronts of a financial crisis, global warming and Russian military incursion into Georgia; local Liberal Democrat...
A New World Order?
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By Christopher McGuiness The United States’ status as a modern empire has long been a favourite subject of political writers. One example of such writing is a recent Observer editorial authored by LSE professor emeritus John Gray, who predict...
Globalisation RIP ?
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What follows is a set of comments and reports on the collapse of the Doha...
The War for Wealth - Is Globalisation destroying the West?
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Globalisation. The Flat World. Outsourcing. Free Trade. Each of these phrases is a flashpoint in one of the most heated debates of our lifetime: is globalisation a force for good, or is it a policy that is sure to destroy the economic foundation of t...
