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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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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 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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This review article draws attention to a new focus in feminist writing on the international/global.
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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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 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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Should we worry about terrorists attacking us with Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)? An assessment.
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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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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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 "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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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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 Book Review. 'Occidentalism - The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies'
by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit (Penguin Press: New York, 2004)
'In their attempt to ground Occidentalism historically, the authors end up shoving animosity towards the West under a make-shift rubric of pathological hatred.'
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04 May 2004
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A report written by Joop Boer, Henk van der Keur, Karel Koster and Frank Slijper about the 'father' of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program and his connections with the international nuclear industry in The Netherlands.
'The role played by Urenco in the proliferation of nuclear technology illustrates clearly that the use of this technology for peaceful or military purposes cannot be separated.'
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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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21 April 2004
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Testimony before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 20 April 2004, by Dr Toby Dodge (Senior Fellow, Middle East, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London).
"The rebuilding of Iraq is an international problem and should be given to the international community to handle."
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21 April 2004
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Testimony before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 20 April 2004, by Juan Cole (Professor of History at the University of Michigan).
"The biggest US failure in Iraq to date lay in American inability to understand the workings of Iraqi society."
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17 April 2004
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 by Dr. Geert Van Moorter
Medical Aid for the Third World
Survey on the health situation and the health care infrastructure in Iraq. New Version (28 April 2004)
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29 April 2004
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By Gabriel Kolko
We are now experiencing fundamental changes in the international system whose implications and consequences may ultimately be as far-reaching as the dissolution of the Soviet bloc.
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 To think of the Nile, is to think of Egypt. But while Cairo is adamant that this should remain so, no less than nine other countries are disputing Egypt’s dominance over the world’s longest river. The region is trying to talk it through at several meetings this month.
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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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American armed forces encircle the planet with a vast network of military bases on every continent except Antarctica. This network actually constitutes a new form of empire -- an empire of bases.
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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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This essay provides a historical overview of the Monroe doctrine and its corollaries. Various examples of US intervention in Latin America are analysed: the Cold War cases Chile, Guatemala and Nicaragua and one ‘post Cold War’ example, Colombia.
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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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