La rassegna di geopolitica di Radio Radicale
- Rassegna di geopolitica: lo status di Gerusalemme 6 August 2010
- Rassegna di Geopolitica: scontri a fuoco tra Israele e Libano 4 August 2010
- Rassegna di Geopolitica. La Birmania tra India e Cina 30 July 2010
- Rassegna di geopolitica. Tensioni tra Usa e Cina nel Pacifico 28 July 2010
- Rassegna di geopolitica: Le ambizioni nucleari dell'Arabia Saudita 22 July 2010
- Rassegna di geopolitica: le nuove prospettive della Cina 9 July 2010
- Rassegna di geopolitica - L'agricoltura globale 7 July 2010
- Rassegna di geopolitica: la politica Usa dello Spazio 2010 emanata da Barack Obama 1 July 2010
- Rassegna di geopolitica: per i Paesi Arabi il rischio di gravi crisi alimentari 9 June 2010
- Rassegna di geopolitica: le nuove Università in Asia 4 June 2010
L’ora di Cindia di Claudio Landi
- L'ora di Cindia 28 August 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 22 August 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 7 August 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 31 July 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 25 July 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 18 July 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 10 July 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 4 July 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 26 June 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 20 June 2010
Pandemie
Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2010 – UNESCAP
Even at the height of this crisis, Asia and the Pacific displayed a new-found resilience. Its developing economies achieved an annual growth rate of 4.0%, making it the fastest-growing region in the world, thanks to growth in China and India at 8.7% and 7.2%, respectively. However, the rest of Asia-Pacific’s developing economies contracted in 2009… »
Pandemic Preemption. A U.S. Strategy for Infectious Disease Control – USIP
The spread of old and new infectious diseases constitutes both a threat to U.S. and global security and peace and an opportunity for the United States to burnish its international image through strengthening foreign capacity in infectious disease surveillance and response. Despite an increase in overall U.S. expenditures on global public health, U.S. policy is… »
China’s Billion-Dollar Aid Appetite – Fp
Back in 2001, I was the lead U.S. negotiator in international talks meant to transform the way that poor countries fight some of the world’s most pernicious diseases — HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Over the eight years since the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria first launched, China has applied for and been… »
Economic Development in Africa Report 2010 – UNCTAD
The increasing role of large developing countries in global trade, finance, investment and governance, coupled with their rapid economic growth, has stimulated debate on the implications for Africa’s development. The Economic Development in Africa Report 2010 examines recent trends in the economic relationships of Africa with other developing countries and the new forms of partnership… »
The Failed States Index 2010 – Fp/Found for Peace
This year’s index draws on 90,000 publicly available sources to analyze 177 countries and rate them on 12 metrics of state decay — from refugee flows to economic implosion, human rights violations to security threats. Taken together, a country’s performance on this battery of indicators tells us how stable — or unstable — it is…. »
Middle East: New HIV report turns up some surprises – IRIN
A new study launched on 28 June in the United Arab Emirates has attempted to gather all existing data into one place and add some analysis and action points for policymakers. The report, characterizing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa, is a joint effort of the World Bank, the UN Joint… »
The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment – UNODC
A report released today by UNODC shows how organized crime has globalized and turned into one of the world’s foremost economic and armed powers. The Report looks at major trafficking flows of drugs (cocaine and heroin), firearms, counterfeit products, stolen natural resources and people (for sex and forced labour), as well as smuggled migrants…. »
Global Fund freezes Zambia aid over corruption concern – Bbc
More than $300m of health funding to Zambia’s government is being suspended by the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. It is not the first time Zambia has lost aid amid corruption claims: Sweden and the Netherlands stopped health aid and the EU halted road-building… »
Iran Tests Iraqi Resolve at the Border – the New York Times
Iraqi Kurds are at the center of questions about whether Iraq is willing or able to defend its borders with Iran — which has repeatedly breached the frontier in recent months. The attacks on Ali Rash and at least a dozen other Kurdish villages have continued for more than a month and have included a… »
The Race Against Drug Resistance – CGD
In an increasingly interconnected world, drug resistance does not stop at a patient’s bedside—it threatens global health. It has slowed gains against the fatal ravages of childhood dysentery and pneumonia, drastically increased the costs of fighting tuberculosis and malaria, and imperiled efforts to effectively treat people living with HIV/AIDS. Tens of millions of lives are… »
Our Common Strategic Interests Africa’s Role in the Post-G8 World – Chatham House
African countries are playing a more strategic role in international affairs. Global players that understand this and develop greater diplomatic and trade relations with African states will be greatly advantaged. For many countries, particularly those that have framed their relations with
Africa largely in humanitarian terms, this will require an uncomfortable shift in public and policy… »
Think Tanks and Public Policies in Latin America – Fundación Siena/CIPPEC
(PDF) – It is not true that democracy and technocracy are necessarily opposite principles. An
active and growing civic participation is not incompatible with the incorporation of expert knowledge
in public policies. Actually, it is not difficult to grasp that democracy fragility grows when
elected Governments fail to solve, efficiently and effectively, the complex problems of economic
and social… »
Vers un nouveau régime politique en Afrique subsaharienne – IFRI
En français et English.
L’Afrique subsaharienne est revenue sur les espoirs de démocratisation qu’avait suscités la fin de la guerre froide et des régimes de parti unique. L’heure est à la désillusion. Même les pôles de stabilité qu’étaient le Sénégal (depuis l’indépendance en 1960) et l’Afrique du Sud (depuis 1994) sont aujourd’hui menacés d’une dérive autoritaire…. »
African Economic Outlook 2010
The annual African Economic Outlook (AEO) is published jointly by the African Development Bank, the OECD Development Centre and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. he 2010 Outlook covers 50 African countries, up from 47 last year. The AEO presents a promising outlook for the continent with average growth rebounding to 4.5 per cent… »
Climate change and infectious diseases in Europe – EASAC
(PDF) – Climate exerts both direct and indirect effects onthe appearance and spread of human and animalinfectious diseases. The impact of climate changeon the transmission and geographical distribution ofvector-borne diseases, including zoonoses (infectionstransmissible between vertebrate animals andhumans), has been associated with changes in thereplication rate and dissemination of pathogen,vector and animal host populations, which aresensitive… »
Il Sudafrica, i Mondiali di calcio e la strada verso lo sviluppo – ISPI
(PDF) – il Sud Africa ha percorso molto strada. Si è affermato, anzitutto, come un modello di stabilità politica e istituzionale per il continente africano, caratterizzato da una democrazia multipartitica, una chiara distinzione tra i poteri, una stampa libera e spregiudicata, una società civile articolata e vibrante. Dopo alcuni anni di andamento alterno l’economia ha… »
Morphine Remains Scarce for Pain Sufferers Worldwide – Time
Whether you will have access to pain treatment depends largely upon where you live. Africa, which has most of the world’s AIDS victims, is a painkiller wasteland. In India, more than a million cancer and AIDS sufferers die each year in extreme pain as cumbersome regulations and paperwork make it nearly impossible to get prescription… »
Malaria epidemic brews in Venezuela – the Miami Herald
Malaria cases have doubled in Venezuela so far this year as health officials confront an epidemic in a vast southern region where wildcat gold miners are often infected in remote jungle camps.
Health Ministry statistics published this week show there have been 21,601 malaria cases nationwide so far this year, up from 10,758 during the… »
What’s driving Africa’s growth – McKinsey Quarterly
Africa’s economic pulse has quickened, infusing the continent with a new commercial vibrancy. Real GDP rose by 4.9 percent a year from 2000 through 2008, more than twice its pace in the 1980s and ’90s. Telecommunications, banking, and retailing are flourishing. Construction is booming. Private-investment inflows are surging. Africa’s collective GDP, at $1.6 trillion in… »
The price of freedom – the Economist
Since embracing full democracy 16 years ago, South Africa has made huge strides. But in reality South Africa is no more than a middle-income developing country with a GDP per person of around $10,000 (at purchasing-power parity), a quarter of the American figure. On a per-head basis, it is the seventh-richest country in Africa by… »
Núm 89-90 Asia en desarrollo: escenarios de riesgos y oportunidades – CIDOB
A nadie sorprende hoy la afirmación de que Asia ha despertado definitivamente de su letargo para convertirse en la región más dinámica del planeta y en un polo emergente de las relaciones internacionales. De manera especial, China e India se han convertido en dos motores esenciales de la economía mundial, gracias a su formidable crecimiento… »
Asian Development Outlook 2010 – ADB
Developing Asia can look ahead to a robust recovery in the next 2 years. Growth is forecast to rise to 7.5% in 2010 and moderate to 7.3% in 2011, marking a healthy rebound from the 2009 slowdown. Shifting the drivers of growth from the support of monetary and fiscal expansion to robust private sources is… »
2010 National Drug Control Strategy – ONDC
President Obama released the Administration’s inaugural National Drug Control Strategy, which establishes five-year goals for reducing drug use and its consequences through a balanced policy of prevention, treatment, enforcement, and international cooperation. The Strategy was developed by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) with input from a variety of Federal, State,… »
U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue 2010 – US State Department
At the Strategic Track under the framework of the Second Round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED), the two sides discussed major bilateral, regional and global issues. During the Dialogue, relevant departments from the two sides also held break-out sessions on energy security, climate change, United Nations peacekeeping, counterterrorism and law enforcement, and… »
Africa Command: U.S. Strategic Interests and the Role of the U.S. Military in Africa – CRS
(PDF) – In recent years, analysts and U.S. policymakers have noted Africa’s growing strategic importance to U.S. interests. Among those interests are the increasing importance of Africa’s natural
resources, particularly energy resources, and mounting concern over violent extremist activities
and other potential threats posed by uncontrolled spaces, such as piracy and illicit trafficking. In
addition, there is ongoing… »
National Security Strategy 2010 – The White House
(PDF) – At the dawn of the 21st century, the United States of America faces a broad and complex array of challenges to our national security. Just as America helped to determine the course of the 20th century, we must now build the sources of American strength and influence, and shape an international order capable… »
NATO 2020: Assured security; Dynamic engagement
(PDF) – Analysis and recommendations of the group of experts on a new strategic concept for NATO chaired by Madeleine K. Albright. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) enters the second decade of the twenty-first century as an essential source of stability in an uncertain and unpredictable world. NATO needs a new Strategic Concept because… »
Globalisation helps spread ‘exotic’ diseases – the Irish Times
Infectious diseases now more common in Europe – by Muiris… »
Almost Half of Deaths in Kids Under 5 Occur in 5 Countries – BusinessWeek
Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and blood poisoning account for more than two-thirds of the 8.8 million annual deaths in kids under 5 years of age worldwide, a new report shows. Almost half of these deaths occurred in just five countries — China, Nigeria, India, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Pakistan…. »
Cultivating Global Food Security – CSIS
This report provides insights and policy initiatives on three main pillars for achieving long-term global food security: boosting agricultural productivity, especially in developing countries; strategically investing in agricultural research and development to increase productivity; and energizing the trade agenda to play a strong role in improving food security – by Johanna Nesseth Tuttle, J. Stephen… »
Climate Security Index – ASP
(PDF) – The consequences of climate change will be found, and are being found now around the world. New climate conditions will drive human beings to move in ever larger numbers, seeking food, water, shelter and work. No region will be immune. Climate refugees will increasingly
cross our own borders. The stress of changes in the… »
The Importance of a Broad Bilateral Economic Relationship With China – US Department of State
Speech by Robert D. Hormats, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs
China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, in Beijing, China – April 9,… »
Hardly Existential – Foreign Affairs
Many people hold that terrorism poses an existential threat to the United States. But a look at the actual statistics suggests that it presents an acceptable risk — one so low that spending to further reduce its likelihood or consequences is scarcely justified – by John Mueller and Mark G…. »
Drug-resistant tuberculosis now at record levels – WHO
In some areas of the world, one in four people with tuberculosis (TB) becomes ill with a form of the disease that can no longer be treated with standard drugs regimens, a World Health Organization (WHO) report says. In the new WHO’s Multidrug and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: 2010 Global Report on Surveillance and Response, it… »
Land Use Futures – Foresight
This Project has taken a broad and overarching look at the future of UK land use over the next 50 years. It demonstrates that there is a strong case to develop a much more strategic approach: to guide incremental land use change, incentivise sustainable behaviours, and to unlock value from land.This report shows that a… »
Into EurAsia: Monitoring the EU’s Central Asia Strategy – FRIDE
(PDF) – The EU Strategy for Central Asia was introduced in 2007 to upgrade the EU’s cooperation with the five states of the region: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Concerns in the EU over energy security and the war in Afghanistan dominated the political context at that time. But the strategy sought to take… »
Geopolitics beyond Washington? Africa’s alternative security and development partnerships’ – the Foreign Policy Center
(PDF) – The US Government launched Africa Command (AFRICOM) on 1 October 2008, but how relevant is it for Africans and Africa? This analisys explores the challenges associated with AFRICOM’s predominant focus on the militarisation of African security, by surveying examples of African partnerships with non-OECD actors, including Brazil, India, China and the Middle… »
Stopping the Destructive Spread of Small Arms – Center for American Progress
The proliferation of small arms and light weapons is an immediate security challenge to individuals, societies, and states around the world and an enormous hurdle to sustainable security and development. Small arms fuel civil wars, organized criminal violence, and terrorist activities. They also undermine multimillion dollar development programs and other assistance to fragile states. Fragile… »
Confronting the China/U.S. Economic Imbalance – CFR
China has stepped up its purchases of U.S. Treasuries in recent years, making it the second biggest foreign holder of U.S. debt after Japan. China holds roughly $1.5 trillion in U.S. assets, at least 65 percent of China’s total foreign assets. This represents enormous growth in its U.S. dollar holdings over the past decade, which,… »
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009.Update 91 – WHO
As of 7 March 2010, worldwide more than 213 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including at least 16713 deaths. The most active areas of pandemic influenza transmission are currently in Southeast Asia, however, lower levels of pandemic virus circulation persist in other parts of… »
Think Global, Act European – Notre Europe
in English and Français
The work of European think tanks is increasingly seen as an essential contribution to the definition of the EU agenda. Its strength lies in the capacity of these organisations to develop synergies and intellectual stimulation among themselves. Notre Europe has therefore brought together 14 think tanks with the aim of presenting concrete… »
Baku Promotes Stability in the South Caucasus – Eurasia Daily Monitor
It appears that both processes surrounding the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Karabakh and the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement intensified almost immediately after the Russia-Georgia war in August 2008, which established a new geopolitical environment, with implications not only for Georgia, but also for the South Caucasus and beyond. Moscow’s increased interest in playing a more active broker’s role… »
Global Trends in AIDS Mortality – Population Council
(PDF) – This paper reviews the evolution of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and provides estimates of past trends and future projections of AIDS mortality indicators, including numbers of AIDS deaths, the proportion of all deaths that are due to AIDS, and life expectancy. In 2007, a total of 2.0 million men, women, and children died of… »
The Beginner’s Guide to Nation-Building – RAND
The U.S. government is not alone in seeking to promote a more professional approach to nation-building. The United Kingdom, Canada, and Germany have recently set up offices similar to that established in the Department of State to manage their countries’ participation in postconflict stabilization and reconstruction. World leaders, meeting in late 2005, agreed to establish… »
Enhancing U.S. Preventive Action – CFR
Few would dispute that preventing conflict, instability, and humanitarian disaster is preferable to confronting these problems after they arise. Preventive measures are generally less expensive than remedial ones. They also allow policymakers to address potential crises before they
threaten international stability, U.S. interests, and human lives. Building an effective U.S. government capacity to take preventive action,… »
Cell phone subscriptions to hit 5 billion globally – Cnet
On a planet with around 6.8 billion people, we’re likely to see 5 billion cell phone subscriptions this year.
Reaching 4.6 billion at the end of 2009, the number of cell phone subscriptions across the globe will hit 5 billion sometime in 2010, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The explosion in cell phone use… »
Global Risk Report 2010 – World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum released Global Risks 2010, highlighting a number of underlying risks that contributed to and were exacerbated by the financial crisis and global economic downturn
• Fiscal crises and unemployment, underinvestment in infrastructure – especially in energy and agriculture – and chronic disease are identified as the pivotal areas of risk over… »
Remarks of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum
Secretary Clinton spoke at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, hosted by the Qatari Government and the Saban Center on the evening of February… »
Security and Stability in Africa: A Development Approach – SSI
The security and stability of Africa has recently become an important national issue readily seen in the increased time, effort, and resources now devoted to the continent by such new organizations as the U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM). This paper seeks to overcome centuries of ignorance and misunderstanding about the conditions and people of Africa by… »
Living the Information Society in Asia – IDRC/ISEAS
Asian societies are in a period of transition, as people are learn to live with new information and communication technologies (ICTs). Whether at work, at home, at school, or at large, ICTs are having an impact on day-to-day lives. How can mobile phones help to forge relationships within families that have been separated my migration?… »