http://globalbrief.ca World Affairs in the 21st Century Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:36:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dans le cadre de son mandat visant à promouvoir les meilleurs jeunes analystes et penseurs en affaires internationales, le magazine Global Brief lance un appel à travers le monde pour identifier un(une) ou deux des plus talentueux(euses) jeunes commentateurs(trices) dans le domaine pour rejoindre son groupe élite de Géo-Blogueurs. Les candidat(e)s ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2013/03/18/concours-mondial-pour-geo-blogueurs-de-gb/ Austerity has turned a once classical foreign service into travelling salesmen Portugal’s centre-right coalition government, elected in 2011, in the context of a 78 billion euro IMF-EU bailout programme that expires in June 2014, has turned decisively – it would say ‘pragmatically’ – to so-called economic diplomacy in order to revive ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2013/03/05/portuguese-diplomats-and-global-bazaars/ GB discusses wealth creation, the state of the Americas, and lessons for the states of the post-Arab Spring with Peru’s Hernando de Soto GB: Why does Peru today have the second fastest-growing economy in the Americas (after Panama)? HDS: What is good about Peru today is that a macroeconomic ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2013/03/05/as-capital-moves-from-lima-to-cairo/ Proposition: Africa should welcome China Richard Rousseau (contre): Au-delà de l’argumentaire des partisans et des détracteurs de la présence grandissante de la Chine en Afrique, l’impact à long terme des investissements chinois est incertain. Les contrats de type «matières premières contre infrastructures» sont susceptibles de développer considérablement les économies des pays ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2013/03/05/when-beijing-pivots-to-lagos/ Il faut admettre une fois pour toutes que l’UE s’est construite contre l’idée de puissance Il y a 10 ans, l’UE, traumatisée par son incapacité à s’unir face à l’intervention américaine en Irak, acceptait sous l’impulsion de la France de se doter d’un instrument définissant une Stratégie européenne de ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2013/03/05/quelle-grande-strategie-pour-l%e2%80%99europe/ It’s not as bad as it looks, considering the starting point and the enemy at the gate. The game can only be long. The world’s newest state has not had an easy time of it. After decades of struggle against dictatorship and marginalization by successive regimes in Khartoum, independence in ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2013/03/05/to-live-and-die-in-south-sudan/ Edging toward the sweet spot of new-century governance Enter the info-state. The info-state – today one of a growing number of dynamic and entrepreneurial cities, city-states or small nations scattered around the world – governs as much through data as via democracy. Scholars have for decades appreciated political mutations that drive ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2013/03/05/rise-of-the-info-states/ What East can teach West, and vice versa, as ‘voyeur’ states take notes Who, as between Reagan and Gorbachev, won the Cold War? Answer: Deng Xiaoping. The various ‘pivots’ currently being effectuated by serious countries on all continents testify to this victory. All of these pivots are, to be sure, China-driven, ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2013/03/05/algorithm-argument-and-promiscuity/ Between identity and difference, the impulse for identity has proven more destructive Two principles rule in human affairs: identity and difference. We yearn for home, comfort and familiarity (self, family, tribe, city, country, language, culture), and yet we are always engaging with difference (through simple curiosity – one of the most ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2013/03/05/on-humanity%e2%80%99s-moats-and-bridges/ Calestous Juma …will be on a new path toward economic renewal, having endured decades of war and centuries of instability. The road to such a future must commence now through the containment of armed conflict, followed by the election of competent leaders who can focus on laying the foundations for economic ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2013/03/05/%e2%80%9cin-2020-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-drc/