Proposition: Africa should welcome China
Richard Rousseau (contre): Au-delà de l’argumentaire des partisans et des détracteurs...
Tags: China's role in Africa, Chinese investment in Africa, Chinese-African relations, des gouvernements kleptocrates, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Global Brief, la géopolitique de l’Eurasie, realpolitik, Richard Rousseau, une puissance néocoloniale, Wenran Jiang
Proposition: Australia and New Zealand are not prepared for Asian pre-eminence
Hugh White (for): The return of Asia to its...
Tags: ASEAN, Asia-Pacific region, Asian population, Australia, David Skilling, Global Brief, Hugh White, Industrial Revolution, New Zealand, South Pacific, world's largest economies
Proposition: The Arab Spring is, on balance, a major strategic problem for Israel
Saeed Rahnema (against): Whether or not...
Tags: Arab Spring, Assad's regime, David Tal, Egypt, geostrategic impact of the Arab Spring, Global Brief, Iran, Israël, Israel's response to the Arab Spring, Israel's security, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, political unrest, pro-democracy movements in the Middle East, religious fundamentalists, Saeed Rahnema, Saudi Arabia, self-determination, Six-Day War, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
Proposition: Advanced countries have a duty to help feed the Horn of Africa
James Radner (against): A terrible human catastrophe...
Tags: AIDS, famine, Global Brief, Horn of Africa, humanitarian aid, humanitarian crisis, humanitarian obligations, infectious diseases, James Radner, John W. McArthur, malaria, social responsibility, tuberculosis, World Food Program
Proposition: “National interests necessarily corrupt humanitarian interventions”
Kyle Matthews (against): Intervening...
Tags: Ethiopia, former Yugoslavia, Global Brief, Kyle Matthews, Libya, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, R2P, Responsibility to Protect, Rwanda, Sudan, UN Security Council, UN Security Council Resolution 1973, Wolfgang Krieger
Proposition: The Iraq war (launched in 2003) eventually provided oxygen for today’s Arab Spring
Shuvaloy Majumdar...
Tags: Abbasid caliphate, Arab Spring, Baghdad, democracy in the Middle East, extremist Islamism, Global Brief, Hugh Kennedy, Iran invasion, Iraqi Baath Party, Middle East, Nasserist socialism, Peter Jones, Saddam, Shiite, Shuvaloy Majumdar, Tahrir Square, Tunisian rebellion, US foreign policy, US national security strategy
Proposition: Secrecy is a necessary condition for good governance
Craig Scott (against): Granted, for some purposes, and...
Proposition: The ‘Australian approach’ to boat people and asylum is the correct one
Michael Barutciski (for): Certains...
Tags: asylum seekers, Australian approach to boat people and asylum seekers, Australian immigration policy, boat people, Catherine Dauvergne, Convention sur les réfugiés, East Timor, Glendon, Global Brief, Howard government, human rights of refugees, International Court of Justice, international law of the sea, international refugee law, menace à l’intégrité territoriale, Michael Barutciski, Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Refugee Convention
Proposition: National champions are good economic policy in the 21st century
Watson (against): One silver lining to...
Tags: Advanced Research Agency, America’s economy, bankers, Big companies, Bill Gates, brokers, Canada, Canadian economy, Canadian exports, China, CIBC, East Asia, economic policy, economic theory, financial deficit, Finland, Forbes, foreign direct investment, GB, GDP, General Motors, Global Brief, Great Recession, industrial policy, international trade, Jim Stanford, Korea, laissez-faire policy, Milton Friedman, NAFTA, Nortel, OECD, sands industry, Sumsung, tax policy, US, Wall Street, William Watson
Proposition: The international discourse over the next decade will (still) be economic in nature.
JH (against): What...
Tags: Davos Economic Forum, economic governance, Economic sociology, Financial Crisis, G20, Global Brief, John Helliwell, macroeconomics, Peer Zumbansen, rational-choice economists, recession
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