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17 April 2006
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Do you feel Dutch or Moroccan? Jewish or not? Anne-Ruth Wertheim discusses why we should refrain from posing the loyalty question.
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 The re-emergence of Jemaah Islamiyah as a potent terrorist force has raised serious questions over the effectiveness of the combined Indonesian and Australian security response.
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10 October 2005
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by Alan Cafruny and Magnus Ryner
'Far from promoting greater integration, as its architects predicted, the European Monetary Union (EMU) serves to intensify conflict among and within member states by accelerating uneven development, dramatizing inequalities, and provoking demands for the renationalization of monetary policy.'
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Review of the book 'The Profit of Peace: Corporate Responsibility in Conflict Regions' by Karolien Bais and Mijnd Huijser, Greenleaf Publishing, Sheffield (UK): 2005.
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 The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is progressing beyond its role as peacekeeper in the region's violent conflicts, establishing the first zone in Africa, where people can move freely across borders, and making plans for ECO, a single regional currency.
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Contemporary warfare, engaging non-state actors in terrorist attacks and guerrilla tactics, demands a reassessment of the options available to enforce International Humanitarian Law.
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In France, the referendum on the European Constitution is sparking more political discussions than most general elections in the last forty years. Reflections on a lively debate.
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In January 2005, at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brasil, over a hundred NGOs launched a global call for action against poverty. Soon after, WSF host president Lula, left for the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he repeated the call - receiving as much acclaim there as in Porto Alegre. What does this mean?
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A process of slow and hidden transfer is being carried out in the West Bank, where nearly 400,000 Palestinians are candidates for “voluntary emigration” to refugee camps.
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Radio and television journalists like to think of themselves as objective conveyors of different points of view. But the method they use to interview people promotes the division in society.
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This review article draws attention to a new focus in feminist writing on the international/global.
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10 March 2005
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 A recent report of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) documents widespread intolerance, aggressive political rhetoric and discrimination against Muslims in Europe.
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Racism is changing, manifesting itself in more dangerous ways than in the past.
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Faced with the proliferation of tools to measure 'Corporate Social Responsibility' or other 'ethical practices' of private companies, one might want to pause for a second to consider the effectiveness of these new instruments.
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Even if African leaders had the political will, and the African Union (AU) had the capacity to intervene in Sudan, it would be difficult to do so without international support.
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 The Sharm-el-Sheikh summit of Sharon and Abbas is hailed in the media as the opening of a new era. But the bitter reality is that nothing has changed.
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09 February 2005
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According to Jan Pronk, the top United Nations envoy in Sudan, there is evidence for ongoing "tribal or ethnic cleansing of dozens of villages" in the Dafur region.
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Should we worry about terrorists attacking us with Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)? An assessment.
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The European Union (EU) is trying to develop a stronger relationship with Israel because it believes this will 'enhance its ability to influence' that country. The EU has not had much success so far. It should think again.
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New U.S. plans to develop earth-penetrating low-yield nuclear weapons for the purpose of destroying underground bunkers and similar hardened targets constitute a major threat to international security in more than one respect.
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 The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which is to conclude in Tunis this year, has still some thorny issues to settle. One of these is how to bridge the 'digital divide' between North and South and, in particular, who is going to pay for it.
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NGOs in Afghanistan need to assess which new skills and tools they need to contribute effectively to the reconstruction of their country.
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 In her latest book, Noreena Hertz deals with an issue that, although familiar to most, continues to be clouded in a mist of complexities: the mounting debt of the developing world.
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‘I took my country to war’ has never been a line based on which an American President got a second term - until the re-election of George W. Bush.
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 "Is not the ‘EU way’ that we do not address issues as security problems, but as governance, development, environmental issues etc., unless they pose an effective politico-military threat...?"
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Deborah Eade and Alan Leather (eds). 2004. ‘Trade Union and NGO Relations in Development and Social Justice’, Development in Practice Vol. 14, 1-2, pp. 5-285 | Unions and NGOs, separately or jointly, have claimed that they in some sense represent a global civil society in the making. But in exactly what sense is this?
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 Urban consumers need to be more concerned about where their food is coming from and how it is produced, and become more aware of the social and environmental costs of large-scale agriculture.
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Denigrating suicide terrorists as lunatics might be viscerally satisfying, but it does little to broaden our understanding of suicide terrorism and handicaps our ability to deal with it.
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18 August 2004
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Research by the Belgian NGO Netwerk Vlaanderen reveals that European banks such as Axa, Dexia, Fortis, ING and KBC invest in controversial weapons systems - including cluster bombs, anti personnel mines, nuclear and uranium weapons.
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In a matter of weeks the Sudanese province of Darfur has risen to political prominence on a global scale. Despite the massive media attention to the conflict, misunderstandings persist and important questions remain unanswered.
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