Archive for the ‘Multipolar world’ Category
The New World Order is not turning out as planned. Instead of all power emanating from London and Washington, new power centres are emerging to the South and East: a new global equilibrium raises the possibility of a new post-imperial age of peace and equality between nations.
Posted by smeddum on October 24, 2008
Anyone for real politik?
OCTOBER 23, 2008
October 21, 2008
BY Rodric Braithwaite GeorgianDaily
The discussion between David Miliband and a number of experts in last month’s Prospect centred on concepts that have formed the core of the British and western view of international affairs for the last two decades: liberal interventionism, universal values, multilateralism, globalisation, and ethical foreign policy.
But these ideas have lost plausibility as “the west,” their main champion, continues to suffer a loss of authority, not least as a result of the financial crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by alfied on October 24, 2008
Asia Times Online
NATO reaches into the Indian Ocean
By M K Bhadrakumar
The informal meeting of the defense ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member countries in Budapest, Hungary, on October 9-10 was notable for three reasons. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2008
El viejo reloj del Palacio Legislativo de La Paz marca las 12h55 horas de hoy. El Presidente de la República, Evo Morales Ayma, no puede contener la emoción y llora, los dirigentes de los movimientos sociales se confunden en un abrazo, los miles de marchistas gritan de júbilo y hacen flamear sus banderas y wiphalas, los mineros hacen detonar sus dinamitas y los campesinos hacen escuchar sus pututus. Es un día histórico para Bolivia porque el Congreso Nacional aprobó por dos tercios la convocatoria a referéndum sobre la Nueva Constitución Política del Estado para el 25 de enero de 2009.
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Posted by smeddum on October 21, 2008
In Finance, Japan Sees an Opening NewYorkTimes
By MARTIN FACKLER
Published: October 20, 2008
TOKYO — Just six months ago, five or six “bulge bracket” investment banks stood astride the globe virtually dictating the terms of engagement of international finance — managing deals, pronouncing companies (or countries) investment-worthy or not, and dispensing advice that companies (and countries) ignored at their peril. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 21, 2008
Europe wants new global financial order Novosti
16:14 | 21/ 10/ 2008
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) – America is losing Bretton Woods, the global financial system formed at the UN Monetary and Financial Conference, commonly known as the Bretton Woods conference.
In July 1944, 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel, in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of WWII. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 19, 2008
New Economic World Order Must Reflect New Economic Realities
20 October 2008 Khaleejtimes
No one can disagree with French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s argument that the world has dramatically changed and that the global financial system needs to change too. The French leader made the observation ahead of his meeting with US President George W Bush at the Camp David retreat this weekend to brainstorm over the current economic meltdown. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on October 19, 2008
Cailean Bochanan
19th October, 2008
Despite the fact that the world map no longer shows massive areas in the red of the British Empire, I have characterised Great Britain as an empire, or rather, the base or rump of such. However, the British people may see their nationality, as British, English, Scottish, Scottish but British, Irish, loyal etc. at a certain level, at the level of the elite, the financiers above all, Britain is a base for operations.
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Posted in Drive to Global War, Financial crisis, Multipolar world | Tagged: Financial crisis | 5 Comments »
Posted by seumasach on October 16, 2008
LPAC
October 15, 2008 — “[E]veryone needs the America of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, an America which is not afraid of change, which is in a position to understand that nothing is given once and for all, and which is open to the world and for free debate,” wrote Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov in his article: “Face to Face with America: Between Non-Confrontation and Convergence,” which was published in the magazineProfile this month.
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Posted by smeddum on October 15, 2008
A mad scramble over Afghanistan
Asia Times
By M K Bhadrakumar
An impression is being created that there is a “rift” between the United States and Britain regarding the reconciliation track involving the Taliban. The plain truth is that the US, Britain, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are in this murky game together. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 12, 2008
FE Editorial : G-7 + crisis = G-14
The Financial Express
Posted: Oct 11, 2008 at 0008 hrs IST
With the world in crisis, are seven countries enough to tackle it? Expansion of G-7 has been debated off and on ever since BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) became a force to reckon with. This crisis may be the time to expand the club. World Bank president Robert Zoellick has been admirably clear on this, calling for G-7 to become G-14, adding India, China, South Africa, Mexico, Russia, Brazil and Saudi Arabia. It needs to be said that some of these countries are more important to global plans than, say, Italy, a founding member of G-7. Asian representation, in particular, is crucial because the big economies of this continent will grow even amidst the crisis at healthy rates, though disappointing by their own recent standards (see previous edit for India’s prospects). More big economies mean better coordination. How national actions can make a crisis worse was clear when Ireland’s unilateral declaration of complete guarantee of all bank deposit, a policy soon followed by countries like Denmark and Greece, began a large-scale transfer of funds within the EU, weakening already weak banks in other member countries of the EU which hadn’t guaranteed all deposits. Read the rest of this entry »
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