Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com Green activists, take note – for Australia fully to embrace solar power, Canberra would have to spend $100 billion, with photovoltaic cells to generate the electricity covering an area twice the size of Sydney in order to replace Australia’s indigenous inexpensive coal-fired power plants [...]
OP-ED: The Future of Carbon Markets: Taking Politics Seriously
November 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Peter Newell * BRIGHTON, United Kingdom, Nov 22, 2011 (Tierramérica) – Carbon markets are under attack on all sides, despite ongoing faith in their ability to deliver meaningful reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs). As the Durban climate summit approaches and as the first commitment period of the [...]
OP-ED: The Good News About Coal
June 28, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Lester R. Brown* WASHINGTON, Jun 28, 2011 (IPS) – During the years when governments and the media were focused on preparations for the 2009 Copenhagen climate negotiations, a powerful climate movement was emerging in the United States: the movement opposing the construction of new coal-fired power plants. [...]
What’s Really Wrong With the Thiel Fellowships
June 20, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Ian Fletcher In case you missed it, the Thiel Foundation, founded by Peter Thiel of PayPal fame, just announced the first batch of winners for its “20 Under 20” fellowship program to pay students to drop out of college for two years to pursue entrepreneurial ideas. Any number of people [...]
OP-ED: Drilling Deep Mistakes in the Arctic
June 20, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kumi Naidoo* THE INSTITUTION PRISON, NUUK, Greenland, Jun 20, 2011 (IPS) – Nuuk is a long way from my hometown of Durban, and the Arctic is a long way for an African to come to campaign about climate change. Yet, here I sit, in a jail cell, [...]
Political Expediency May Forfeit Reform in Somalia
June 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By Abukar Arman The worst thing that could happen to Somalia at this critical juncture—in its recovery from two decades of bloodshed and chaos— is to disrupt the momentum of security improvement and to derail the reformation process lead by Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and his cabinet. And that [...]
DEALING WITH SOMALI PIRACY: STILL GROPING IN THE DARK
June 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN (To be read in continuation of my article of April 19,2011, titled “Somali Pirates Say They Are At War With India” at http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers45/paper4432.html ) We are still groping in the dark in matters relating to action against the Somali pirates, who are more and more active despite all the [...]
WTO Needs a Shot in the Arm
May 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jürgen Wiemann* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint BONN (IDN) – At first sight, it may seem far-fetched to see a link between the icon of Islamist terrorism and the WTO Development Round. But let us not forget that a mere three months after the terrorist attacks on New York [...]
OP-ED: The Sacred and the Secular – Promoting Muslim Democracy
May 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Asef Bayat* CHICAGO, May 26, 2011 (IPS) – The presence of religion in public space challenges our ideas about the roles of faith in our lives and politics. Over the last centuries, proponents of secularisation have claimed that as societies modernise, the role of religion in public [...]
OP-ED: Iran’s Greatest Spiritual Leader
May 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Melody Moezzi* ATLANTA, Georgia, May 23, 2011 (IPS) – Iran’s officially recognised "spiritual leader" today may be Ayatollah Khamenei, but for hundreds of years before the current establishment of mullahs and ayatollahs, Iranians of all creeds have looked to another spiritual leader: Jalal ad- Din Rumi. While [...]
