Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN/MONTPELLIER (IDN) – "Dangers await only those who do not react to life," he admonished die-hard comrades in the Soviet bloc who were blind to the writing on the wall and ignored that the people’s yearning for democratic space was impossible to bridle. [...]
OPENING-UP OF MYANMAR
December 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN The three-day (Nov.30—Dec 2,2011) visit of Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, to Myanmar— the first by a US Secretary of State since the visit of Johan Foster Dulles in 1955— indicated the growing self-confidence of President Thein Sein that the cautious policy of domestic reforms and external opening-up [...]
TRADE: Small Steps towards Emission Reduction Deal
December 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kristin Palitza DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5 , 2011 (IPS) – Emerging economies China, South Africa and Brazil have indicated their openness to legally-binding carbon emission reduction targets from 2020 during the United Nations climate change summit in Durban, South Africa. Climate experts say the three countries’ [...]
Ban Proposed on Export Restrictions that Undermine Food Security
June 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Isolda Agazzi GENEVA, Jun 24, 2011 (IPS) – Egypt has initiated a proposal in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to ban export restrictions on farm products to poor countries that are net food importers. The Group of 20 has also exhorted the upcoming WTO ministerial conference to [...]
Postponing Emissions Cuts Carries Steep Price-tag
June 20, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Stephen Leahy BONN, Jun 20, 2011 (IPS) – If we’re lucky, by the time a tough but fair international treaty to meet the climate change challenge is finalised, it will be largely unnecessary. The snail’s pace of negotiations certainly gives countries plenty of time to understand [...]
Key Fisheries Treaty to Lapse in Rebuke to U.S.
May 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Christopher Pala HONOLULU, Hawaii, U.S., May 26, 2011 (IPS) – For the past quarter century, the United States’ relations with Pacific island nations were framed by the South Pacific Tuna Treaty, which combines foreign aid, subsidies to the U.S. fleet of purse-seine fishing vessels and their largely [...]
Why Mideast Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone is Critical
May 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Randy Rydell* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint GENEVA (IDN) – The world is filled with serious problems that must be addressed — poverty; racism; illiteracy; contagious diseases; terrorism; injustice; to name only a few. So why should we bother to focus on nuclear weapons? And why specifically should anybody [...]
MIDEAST: Obama Peace Vision Sparks New Disputes
May 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, May 23, 2011 (IPS) – "The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognised borders are established for both states." The seemingly neutral and quasi-consensual principle laid out by U.S. President [...]
Ten Non-Nuclear States Plead For Nuke Abolition
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jamshed Baruah IDN-InDepth NewsReport BERLIN (IDN) – While public attention worldwide is focussed on one authoritarian regime after another tumbling down on the Arab shores of the Mediterranean Sea, foreign ministers of 10 non-nuclear nations stretching across continents have called for "a Middle East free of [...]
Bolivia Steps Up Campaign at U.N. to Legalise Coca Leaf
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS, Apr 30, 2011 (IPS) – Is coca a dangerous drug that should be tightly regulated, or an essential part of Andean indigenous people’s cultural and medicinal heritage? Or perhaps both? In the coming months, diplomats at the U.N. body will face the thorny [...]
