Senior Vice-President and Representative to the United Nations, Geneva, Association of World Citizens and editor of the online journal of world politics www.transnational-perspectives.org
March 8 is the International Day of Women and is placed under the sign of the goddess of the month of March — Minerva. Minerva derives her name from the Latin mens (mind), and so she has a special relation to teachers and artists, especially players of a flute. Tradition has it that Minerva (…)
lundi 9 mars 2009
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) was born on 15th January and died on 16th January and so with these days we can mark either the anniversary of his birth or his death. Proudhon along with Karl Marx (1818-1883) are the two great writers of social progress in the 19th century. Proudhon along (…)
jeudi 15 janvier 2009
Genocide is the most extreme consequence of racial discrimination and ethnic hatred. Genocide has as its aim the destruction, wholly or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such. The term was proposed by the legal scholar Raphael Lemkin, drawing on the Greek genos (…)
mardi 9 décembre 2008
At the Palais des Nations — the UN’s European headquarters— on 15 October 2008, there was an uneven start to negotiations among Russian, Georgian, Abkhazian and South Ossetian negotiators. The Russian representatives arrived 50 minutes late unsure if the representatives of Abkhazia and South (…)
mercredi 5 novembre 2008
The current financial crisis joins those of food and fuel to challenge the world economy. The three crises are inter-related and impact each other. Paying hundreds of billions of dollars to rescue the world’s financial industry looks likely to cut both humanitarian aid and development spending. (…)
jeudi 16 octobre 2008
Tensions and violence in the Middle East, from Iran through Iraq, Turkey, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt are nearly daily news reports and thus require serious attention from non-governmental groups since governments alone seem able only to increase tensions. Frequent news stories (…)
mardi 16 septembre 2008
July 17 marked the 10th anniversary of the Diplomatic Conference in Rome that established the International Criminal Court — a major step in the creation of world law. “For nearly a half a century — almost as long as the United Nations has been in existence — the General Assembly has (…)
mardi 9 septembre 2008
The announcement by President Dmitri Medvedev of Russian recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia has added a new, if expected, element to the situation in Georgia. The Russian negotiators had warned that if Kosovo were recognized by the European Union (EU), Russia would then recognize South (…)
samedi 30 août 2008
As the eyes of much of the world was focused on the start of the Olympic Games in Beijing on 8/8/08, Georgian troops moved into the province of South Ossetia to restore Georgian control. South Ossetia had declared its independence from Georgia at the time of the break up of the Soviet Union in (…)
mercredi 20 août 2008
Radovan Karadzic is a psychiatrist ; his wife Ljiljan Zelem-Karadzic is a psychiatrist ; their daughter Sonja is a psychiatrist. Had Yugoslavia continued united, Karadzic probably would have headed a private clinic for wealthy neurotics to whom he would have read his poems in the evening. Or (…)
vendredi 1er août 2008
Regionalization is one of the most significant trends in contemporary world politics. Therefore, it is important to explore in depth the origins, dynamics, and future prospects of the process of regionalization. Regionalization represents a reshuffle of the power and decision-making from the (…)
lundi 21 juillet 2008
The truce between the Israeli government and the Hamas-led authorities of the Gaza strip began on Thursday morning 19 June 2008. The truce was mediated by Egypt and holds the possibility for new relationships if strong follow-up measures are taken quickly. There are many in Israel, in Gaza, (…)
lundi 30 juin 2008
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