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Towards a Charter Movement- why we need Large System Change in Global for Sustainability

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18th April 2014 In order to sufficiently and effectively deal with environemental degradation, Ruben Zondervan and Ina Möller suggest that the world is in need of Large System Change in global governance. Global environmental protection has featured high on the...

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Five minutes with Ulrich Beck: "Digital freedom risk is one of the most important risks we face in modern society"

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17th April 2014 In an interview with Stuart Brown, Ulrich Beck argues that digital monitoring is crossing territorial and social boundaries and threatening the security of the entire globe. One relatively new type of risk that society has to deal with relates to...

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Reflections on Multistakeholderism and Internet Governance

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14th April 2014 Monroe Price comments on Alexander Klimburg, Philipp Mirtl and Snezana Gjorgieva's paper "Mapping Internet Terrain" which examines the ongoing power shifts between state and non-state actors in internet governance and uses linguistic...

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Ending Poverty in a Generation: The Post-2015 Development Agenda

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14th April 2014 John Podesta argues that post-2015 agenda must integrate principles of sustainable development into poverty reduction. We’re here to talk about ending extreme poverty in a generation. It will come as a surprise to none of you when I say that...

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A New World Order?

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14th April 2014 Tom Engelhardt uncovers the new power dynamics that define our age and the years to come. There is, it seems, something new under the sun. Geopolitically speaking, when it comes to war and the imperial principle, we may be in uncharted territory....

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Can a Political Economy Approach explain Aid Donor's reluctance to think and work Politically?

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11th April 2014 Neil McCulloch suggests reasons why aid donors have been reluctant to adopt the 'Political Economy Approach' in development assistance.  Over the last fifteen years or more, a new approach to development assistance has been gaining...

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The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Preserving Western Domination

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11th April 2014 Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince argue that the NPT is simply a means of securing and legitimising the current arbitrary nuclear world order, cementing Western nuclear-weapons superiority. The latest negotiations between Iran and the U.S. (the so-...

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How Access to Credit is vital for Economies hit by Natural Disaster

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10th April 2014 Carol Tan reviews a 2013 study that investigated the difference in impact on economic growth among countries hit by disasters based on the efficiency of their credit markets. In November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan slammed into various countries in the...

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Trading Away Democracy

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8th April 2014 Andrew Erwin warns that certain provisions in the proposed "free trade" agreement between the US and the EU threatens to undermine representative democracy. Earlier this month in Brussels, U.S. and EU negotiators held a fourth round of...

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Will Technology transform the Human Rights movement?

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8th April 2014 Iain Levine expounds on the importance of technology in the human rights movement. In recent times, human rights activists have been made very aware of technology’s downside. The recent NSA surveillance scandal and the revelations of the...

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