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| 03 May 2006
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In this years “Summit for the Future”, the Club of Amsterdam is bringing together international Thought Leaders to discuss significant, global challenges and opportunities on the subject of risk.
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The Club of Amsterdam presents its Season Event about the future of the USA - its role in the emerging global economy.
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| 29 September 2005
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With globalization, social and economic insecurity have been increasing. Existing systems of social protection become more and more dysfunctional. In this ASC seminar the socio-economic security performance of African countries is being compared to that of other parts of the world.
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| 09 September 2005
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In the early 90s social scientists considered the social movents virtually “dead”. When social movement re-appeared with the anti-globalism, social sciences devoted serious research attention to the movement. Amsab-Institute of Social History brings some of these researchers together.
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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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| 22 April 2005
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ALADIN has the pleasure to invite you to participate in a Mini-Seminar at the Institute of Sociel Studies (ISS) in The Hague.
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This review article draws attention to a new focus in feminist writing on the international/global.
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| 30 March 2005
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Conference on water resources management and the water industry organised by the Club of Amsterdam.
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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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| 23 February 2005
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Conference organized by the Club of Amsterdam about the future of the Service Industry in The Netherlands.
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| 28 January 2005
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Public utilities hold key to securing clean water for all, according to new book launched at the World Social Forum today.
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| 26 January 2005
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The fifth World Social Forum (WSF) takes place in Porto Alegre, Brasil from 26-31 January.
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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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 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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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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| 31 January 2005
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Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round for poverty level wages. In 1998, journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. The result, the book Nickel and Dimed - or (not) getting by in America', reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generousity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategems for survival.
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| 26 November 2004
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 On November 26, 27 and 28, the Dutch Social Forum will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The programme will consist of workshops and seminars, debates, culture and action.
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| 15 October 2004
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 The third European Social Forum (ESF) will take place from 15-17 October in London, UK.
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| 07 October 2004
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Book Presentation of Another world is possible if... by Susan George (Verso Books in association with TNI London/New York, September 2004)
De Balie, Amsterdam, 7 October 2004, 20h00-22h00.
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| 05 July 2004
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 Amsterdam, 5 July 2004 - RISQ, an independent foreign policy think tank based in the Netherlands, has joined the Creative Commons, a global alternative to conventional copyrights.
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 In the sequel to Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz returns to many of the central issues of its predecessor, albeit from a slightly different angle.
'The example of Enron highlights the darker side of US government especially in the international arena where the corporate and financial interests of the US dominated the globalization agenda.'
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The principle that foreign debts incurred by an autocratic leader do not have to be paid back by a successor government - is back on the international agenda [1]. As it stands, though, this renewed interest in the 'odious debt' principle lacks a thorough normative assessment.
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Enron, WorldCom, Ahold, Parmalat. Corporate scandals are becoming regular front-page news. Can we still talk about 'accidents' or is there something fundamentally wrong with current business ethics?
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| 16 January 2004
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 The fourth World Social Forum will take place in Mumbai, India this month (16-21 January). For our Dutch readership, RISQ has devised a special section, WSF Journaal, with news and a daily weblog from Mumbai. For the latest news in English, see our WSF News digest.
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Can Southern Regionalism Respond to the North's Push for Trade Liberalisation?
“In Geneva, nations are more or less owned by corporations pitted against each other in the WTO arena, unable to decide for themselves how they and their citizens would like to live and trade.” (Noreena Hertz, The Silent Takeover)
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| 08 January 2004
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The American political scientist and writer Benjamin Barber will be giving the 5th Globalisation Lecture in Felix Meritis, Amsterdam on the 8th of January.
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| 04 December 2003
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RISQ presents two chapters from the book Capitalist Restructuring, Globalisation and the Third Way by Magnus Ryner (Lecturer, Political Science, University of Birmingham). The author argues against the widely held belief that globalisation has rendered social democracy obsolete.
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 The United States has never before appeared as powerful and as fragile as at the present moment. It has a gigantic military capacity. Its military budget is equal to the total military budgets of the twenty five other nations beneath it on a scale of power. Despite this, the U.S. is fragile because its military strength is not supported by its economy, but by its currency.
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| 26 September 2003
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Friday September 26th 2003, 5pm | VLEKHO Hogeschool | Auditorium 154 | Koningstraat 336, 1030 Brussels
The Green Academic Network, Agalev and the Oikos Foundation invite you to the lecture Globalisation and cultural mobility by Saskia Sassen
An inspiring analysis of the effects of globalisation on our way of life and on sustainable development.
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| 18 October 2003
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Saturday October 18, 14:00
Theater Instituut
Herengracht 168, Amsterdam
Public debate on struggles against water privatisation in the South, organised by the Transnational Institute (TNI) and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO).
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