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France on Strike - What are the Economic and Political Consequences?
2007-11-21 01:27:00 Watch Jacques Reland, member of Social Europe Forum and Head of European Research at the Global Policy Institute London, comment on the current strikes in France on CNN. What are the economic and political consequences? Will Sarkozy be damaged? When are the disputes likely to be settled? More About: Political , Economic , Strike , Consequences
Consolidating Transatlantic Economic Hegemony
2007-11-19 16:43:00 By Henning Meyer Widely unnoticed by the media on both sides of the Atlantic, the European Union and the United States agreed a new “Framework for Advancing Tran satlantic Economic Integration” earlier this year. A brainchild of the German EU presidency, the framework’s main aims are twofold: internally, the new cooperation should enhance EU and US competitiveness. ... More About: Hegemony , Dati , Soli
Democratic Nomination for the 2008 US Presidential Election
2007-11-19 08:56:00 Without a doubt, the US presidential election is also very closely followed in Europe. The outcome will shape the relationship between Europe and the US for years to come, so we want to know what our readers think about the contenders. Who is your favourite Democratic candidate in the race? Who do you think can ... More About: Nomination , Presidential , Election , Resident
A Leader without Followers? The United States in World Politics after Bush
2007-11-16 00:45:00 Below you have the chance to watch the video of a recent Global Policy Institute seminar titled “A Leader without Followers? The United States in World Politics after Bush ”. The speaker was Barry Buzan, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. The video also includes a response by Dr David Carlton from the ... More About: World Politics
Losing our Way in the New Century: The Future of the Middle Class
2007-11-14 03:20:00 Watch Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman speak on the issue of the “Future of the Middle Class ” at the Commonwealth Club of California, touching a series of contemporary political and economic issues. The talk is based on his new book “The Conscience of a Liberal”. More About: The Future , Globalisation
Death to Apathy; or how a Black Guy, a Woman and a Mormon went for an Adven
2007-11-13 16:04:00 By Chris Dalby First of all, this title is not meant as any slight to Senator Obama, Senator Clinton or Governor Romney. It is more to scorn at the childish attitude that the current US presidential campaign has taken. In 2004, a dream surfaced once more, risen as a phoenix from the ashes of broken promises ... More About: Black , Death , Woman , Apathy , Mormon
Rediscovering Thomas Jefferson
2007-10-29 04:33:00 This Jefferson quote is from a letter to George Washington in 1789 and part of an inscription at the Thomas Jefferson memorial in Washington DC. Maybe one should reconsider these thoughts in times of Globalisation : “I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand ... More About: Thomas Jefferson , Erin , Homa
The Future of European Security and Defence: Towards a European Army
2007-10-29 02:03:00 By Angelica Schwall-Düren The idea and plans for a European army were introduced to public discourse as early as the 1940s and 1950s. The Pleven Plan, presented to the French parliament in 1950, called for the creation of a European army, controlled by a European Council of Defence Ministers, a European Defence Minister, and a Supreme ... More About: Security , Future , The Future , Army
Guardian America
2007-10-25 02:22:00 Some of our readers might be interested to learn that the British Guardian newspaper has started an America n version (at least online) called “Guardian America“. The editor is Michael Tomasky and you can read here what he has got to say about the launch.
Progressive Foreign Policy
2007-10-19 05:58:00 By David Held and David Mepham This short essay is concerned with the future direction of foreign policy, a subject explored at greater length in our edited volume, Progressive Foreign Policy (published at the end of August by Polity Press). The essay aims to define a distinctively progressive perspective on foreign policy and to defend this against both ... More About: Foreign Policy , International Relations
Is Political Responsiveness Dead?
2007-10-13 17:00:00 By Henning Meyer Many commentators have been writing about the negative consequences of largely unregulated economic globalisation for quite some time now. We have read time and again about growing inequalities within and between countries, eroding governmental capacities to act, undermining social security and tax systems, putting pressure on wages and adjusting virtually every policy field ... More About: Political , Dead , Globalisation , Politic
Supercapitalism
2007-10-11 07:04:00 Watch Robert Reich, Bill Clinton’s former Secretary of Labor, lecture about his new book “Supercapitalism”. More About: Globalisation
New Diplomacy: Challenges for Foreign Policy
2007-10-11 06:09:00 By David Miliband This is an exciting and important time in British politics. After ten years in government, the Labour Party is seeking under new leadership to set out and deliver a renewed vision for the future of the country that builds on the social, economic and political changes introduced since 1997. The battle of ideas over ... More About: Britain , Policy , Foreign Policy , International Relations , Foreign
5 Myths About Sick Old Europe
2007-10-09 07:20:00 By Steven Hill In the global economy, today’s winners can become tomorrow’s losers in a twinkling, and vice versa. Not so long ago, American pundits and economic analysts were snidely touting U.S. economic superiority to the “sick old man” of Europe . What a difference a few months can make. Today, with the stock market jittery over ... More About: Myths , Sick , Rope
New Social Europe Journal ? European Foreign Policy
2007-10-09 06:58:00 The Summer/Autumn issue of Social Europe Journal is now available for free download (just click here or the picture). This latest issue focuses on European Foreign Policy and contains contributions by the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Javier Solana, Professor David Held from the London School of Economics, German ...
Making Participatory Democracy Work!
2007-10-08 00:07:00 By Henning Meyer The PES has now officially launched its consultation process for the 2009 European Election Campaign manifesto. Here is the first brief contribution about participatory democracy I have submitted: It seems very likely that one of the direct democratic elements of the Constitutional Treaty will be preserved in the coming amendment treaty: The right of ... More About: Elections , Work , Democracy , Social Democracy , Makin
Taking Stock of the Union?s Foreign and Security Policy
2007-10-01 05:41:00 By Javier Solana Earlier this year, the European Union celebrated its 50th birthday. In these 50 years, Europe has been transformed. A continent plagued by wars and confrontations has developed into a community of peace, democracy and prosperity. We have stopped killing each other and started to work together. This did not happen by itself. We built strong ... More About: Security , Stock , Policy , Foreign
New Groupblog at the British Foreign and Commonwelath Office
2007-10-01 05:05:00 Our readers might be interested in the new blog of the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, that he writes together with some other officials on the FCO wesbite. This blog opens up a new channel for FCO information and feedback. See what Miliband had to say about the start More About: Office , Blog , Reign
Greek Elections IV: A New Political Landscape
2007-09-19 14:17:00 By Dimitris Tsarouhas A new political landscape has emerged in Greece, with a far-right party in parliament for the first time since democracy’s restoration and the left back to its 1980s levels of electoral support. The mass parties of the centre right and left lost seats and influence. Voter abstention reached record high levels, with turnout ... More About: Elections , Political , Landscape , Greek , Scape
Polish Government blocks Day against Death Penalty
2007-09-19 04:29:00 The regular observer of European politics will have noticed that in many policy areas, the current Polish government often pursues - let us put it that way - a dissimilar approach to the European mainstream. The latest episode of this dissimilar approach was the Polish veto against a European anti death penalty day. The Kaczynski twins, who ... More About: Government , Poland , Death , Death penalty , Penalty
Becoming Economic Citizens
2007-09-18 15:45:00 By Henning Meyer In the general debate about globalisation, it is a widely held assumption that the scope of action of democratic governments is deteriorating due to advancing economic integration. The bringing down of trade barriers, the shift to a more service based economy and innovations in ICTs have led to business operations going further beyond ... More About: Business , Economic , Globalisation , Citizen
Keeping Up With the Putins
2007-09-16 22:50:00 By Chris Dalby Walking through the streets of Moscow, an eerie feeling soon grips the observant spectator. A sentiment of contained anger and subdued power that threatens to burst out after being quelled for too long. The ebb and flow of Russia n influence has been a constant of world politics for centuries with the heights of ... More About: Putin
Titan Rain ? Politics of Deceit
2007-09-14 18:53:00 by Chris Dalby London, Washington D.C., Berlin, in recent months, all three capitals have been subject to massive and concerted hacking attacks from sources in China . While frequent surveillance of other world powers’ computer networks in hopes of garnering information is lamentably now common-place, this can be condoned and explained by the needs of today’s information ... More About: Politics , Titan , Rain , Politic
Greek Elections III: A Defeat for the Political
2007-09-13 17:03:00 By Dimitris Tsarouhas Aristotle said that humans are inherently political. It would be interesting to listen to his view of the political in modern Greece, a few days away from the 2007 general election. He would probably agree that, once again, the “political” has been defeated. What has triumphed is verbalism, empty rhetoric, unfulfilled promises and ... More About: Elections , Political , Greek , Feat , Politic
Greek Elections II: A Greek Tragedy
2007-09-02 20:34:00 By Dimitris Tsarouhas When Prime Minister (PM) Karamanlis called for early elections in mid-August, he could not imagine the scale of the disaster that would unfold a fortnight later. The devastating forest fires have wrecked havoc, mainly in the Peloponnesian peninsula and Attica, leaving scores of people dead along with animals, plantation and destroyed property. It ... More About: Elections , Tragedy , Greek
Greek Elections I: Why Now?
2007-08-22 01:38:00 By Dimitris Tsarouhas It is now official: Greece has entered one of the shortest pre-election periods in recent memory. In the middle of summer, Prime Minister Karamanlis announced that, contrary to his earlier statements, the next general election will take place on 16 September as he seeks a new mandate to proceed with much-needed economic reforms ... More About: Elections , Greek
Advantages of Backwardness ? Lessons for Social Europe from the American La
2007-08-13 01:39:00 By Lowell Turner The Europe an Union has many admirers around the world, including here in the United States, in the neoliberal heartland. Many of us view the idea, if it is not always the reality, of Social Europe as a benchmark for human-centered economic integration in a global economy. We look to our “old ... More About: American , Lessons , The A
Social Europe Facebook Group
2007-08-12 00:53:00 Dear readers, We encourage you to join the newly created Facebook group of Social Europe Journal. The group is intended to bring together social democrats and progressives from around the world ? not just Europe! - to discuss and disseminate fresh thinking and ideas. Politics must become truly global so the build-up of a world-wide network ... More About: Blog , Group
Inequality has run Amok. Do Leaders Care?
2007-08-07 02:59:00 By Steven Hill and Dmitri Iglitzin When pets are poisoned by imported pet food or U.S. attorneys are fired under suspicious circumstances, Congress gears up hearings and vows quick action. A far greater scandal, however, has hardly gained the interest of legislators or the presidential candidates. That is the increasing wealth gap between the rich, the ... More About: Care , Leaders , Lead , Leader , Inequality
On The Marriage of Progress and Realism
More articles from this author:2007-08-05 23:49:00 By Anatol Lieven It is widely and almost instinctively assumed that the progressive and realist approaches to foreign policy are by nature opposed. This assumption is both mistaken in itself and a terrible obstacle to the creation of a progressive strategy in opposition to the imperial dreams of the Bush administration and much of the US ... More About: Marriage , Progress , Realism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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