http://globalbrief.ca World Affairs in the 21st Century Wed, 02 May 2012 14:00:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en À Pyongyang, on attend depuis longtemps une fin de régime brusque La question de la réunification des deux Corées est aussi ancienne que leur division, et remonte à la débâcle de l’empire colonial japonais. Dès 1945 et plus encore après la création officielle de deux pays distincts en 1948, les constitutions ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2012/02/07/une-reunification-des-deux-corees-d%e2%80%99ici-2047/ Parting volleys on humankind’s arenas of contention Cooperation is local, competition is pandemic. It has always been this way. We live in a churning cauldron of competitive vectors, of drags and accelerants. We compete for money, jobs, love, space and power. We compete, and we are competed for (for our votes, ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2012/02/07/the-future-is-red-in-tooth-and-claw/ Jan Techau …to become the continent’s servant leader. In 1970, Robert Greenleaf, an American business manager and scholar with a keen interest in the art of leadership, framed the famous principle of servant leadership. He claimed that “the first and most important choice a leader makes is the choice to serve, ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2012/02/07/%e2%80%9cgermanys-responsibility-in-europe-is/ GB discusses competitive advantage, the wealth of firms, and the theatres in which they will compete with the Financial Times’ most worldly philosopher GB Over the next 10 to 15 years, what will international business competition look like? What will be the stakes, and who will be the major players? JK ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2012/02/07/whither-and-whence-global-business-and-profits-by-2030/ Helen Stacy "By 2022, international criminal prosecutions of genocidaires and their henchmen will be a standard and uncontroversial function of the global system. International prosecutions of ‘big fish’ human rights violators will have triggered a cascade effect across national courts, regional and sub-regional human rights bodies, as well as hybrid ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2012/02/06/what-will-have-been-the-consequences-of-international-human-rights-prosecutions-by-2022/ Proposition: Advanced countries have a duty to help feed the Horn of Africa James Radner (against): A terrible human catastrophe is unfolding day by day in the Horn of Africa. Innocent people are dying, or suffering permanent impairment, for want of food. Individually, as families, and collectively, as nations, we in ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2012/02/06/advanced-countries-have-a-duty-to-help-feed-the-horn-of-africa/ The future of rights in Western Asia, as in other theatres, will require an abiding rights ‘culture’ that is not so much ‘Western’ as it is the outgrowth of modernity Since the end of WW2, a human rights culture has spread over much of the globe. The expression ‘human rights culture’ ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2012/02/06/is-the-arab-spring-about-%e2%80%98western%e2%80%99-human-rights/ GB goes fireside with the polymath professor and recent political battler to chat about the future look and content of government, governors and the governed GB What will politics be – as a vocation and as a concept – some 10 to 15 years from now? MI That is a challenging question. ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2012/02/06/on-the-state-politics-and-political-tradecraft-10-years-out/ The 2012 presidential election portends not only a verdict on Chavez and his revolution, but also a major national discussion about the rebuilding of the country’s institutions President Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan revolution – variously ‘Bolivarian’ and ‘socialist’ – are going through a rough time. After months of rumours ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2012/02/06/curing-chavez-and-the-prospects-for-venezuelan-health/ Deteriorating trust in paper currencies may well usher in a return to a more sophisticated version of the pre-money world of barter Even Nobel laureates in Economics have had difficulties explaining the economy of late. Witness some of the fathers of the euro, modern derivative pricing, and efficient market theory – ... http://globalbrief.ca/blog/2012/02/06/financial-futures-beyond-money/