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    Perspectives on regional integration

    The current paradigmatic crisis needs to be dealt with at the regional level. In this respect, Latin American movements have already mobilised and placed different models of development and integration at the centre of their struggle. However,...

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  • Countering illicit and unregulated money flows

    Since its beginnings in 1989, the international anti-money laundering regime has not worked as well as intended. After two decades of failed efforts, experts still ponder how to implement one that does work. A bolder initiative is required at the...

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  • Ten years later: challenges and proposals for another possible world

    The WSF must work to strengthen and deepen the alliance of social movements with environmental campaigners, that was forged in Copenhagen, and broaden the alliance to include peace and conflict organisations as well.

     

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  • Haiti, Again?

    The marginalisation of the UN and the militarisation of the US aid effort in Haiti reflect how humanitarian needs take a back seat to the Pentagon's priorities.

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  • The China-Asean Free Trade Area: Propaganda and Reality

    Despite the official propaganda, the China-Asean free trade agreement that came into effect on January 1, 2010, will benefit China, but is likely to disadvantage the Asean Countries.

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Articles

  • Really inconvenient truth
    Saul Landau

    Most political leaders face a challenge they refuse to acknowledge: to gain control of runaway climate change they must abandon convenience, the unchallenged assumptions that place the corporation as means and ends of policies.

  • Ecuador's neo-liberal model
    Roger Burbach

    Beginning his fourth year as president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa confronts a major challenge from some of the very social actors that propelled him into office, primarily over the control of the country's extractive resources.

  • “Freedom” – what a pleasant word!
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    If freedom is defined by a state’s non-participation in economic processes, as the Heritage Foundation suggests, then Haiti today would win first prize, as after the earthquake, it has no government at all.

  • Afghanistan: this war won't work
    Phyllis Bennis

    Obama's announced troops escalation will not bring security to Afghans, it won't turn Afghanistan into a democracy, and it won't make the US safer.

  • China: The Prince of Denmark
    Walden Bello

    Like Hamlet, Shakespeare's conflicted Prince of Denmark, China was caught between conflicting currents in Copenhagen. Its failure to manage these challenges led to its biggest diplomatic debacle in years.

  • India’s non-aligned policy
    Praful Bidwai

    Contrary to some current criticisms, non-alignment was a logical, rational and ethical response to polarisation and inequity, that allowed India to pursue its national interest while providing moral-political leadership to the global South.

     

  • The three legacies of Darwin
    Achin Vanaik

    The legacy of Darwin is not only the knowledge that there is a biological continuum between the animal and the human worlds, but also that there is a link between culture and nature. If only mainstream economics could learn from the life sciences which Darwin did so much to nourish, it might recognise that you cannot have unlimited growth in a finite world.

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Reports

  • The World Crisis and Beyond - Building a New Global Solidarity

    Neoliberal financial-market capitalism has dragged the world into a crisis which threatens human civilisation as such. Climate destruction, resource wars, and the transformation of democracy into oligarchy are in front of us if we don't act now to reduce the burden we place on our unfortunate planet and reorganise the society on the more egalitarian  basis.

  • Countering illicit and unregulated money flows
    Tom Blickman

    Since its beginnings in 1989, the international anti-money laundering regime has not worked as well as intended. After two decades of failed efforts, experts still ponder how to implement one that does work. A bolder initiative is required at the United Nations level, moving from recommendations to obligations, and fully engaging developing nations.

  • Civil Society in European-Chinese Relations

    In the context of the current state of European-Chinese relations and the limited influence of European NGOs on EU policies, this book discusses the challenges and dilemmas of co-operation between European and Chinese civil society organisations.

  • Contemporary discourses and contestations around pro-poor land policies and land governance
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras

    The concern for ‘pro-poor’ land policy has coincided with the mainstream promotion of efficient administration of land policies, leading to the concept of ‘land governance’. This paper aims at better understanding of contemporary policy discourses and political contestations around land and land governance.

  • The security approach to the drugs problem
    Ricardo Vargas

    The drugs problem in Colombia is intertwined with structural factors at the social, economic, institutional and cultural levels. Moreover, its  relationship to the armed conflict has had serious consequences for the socio-economic conditions of peasant and indigenous communities affected by the production of raw materials used to produce cocaine.

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  • Drug Law Reform Project

    The drug law reform project, in which a number of Latin American judicial experts and legislators participate, aims to promote more humane, balanced, and effective drug laws.

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