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NEW Global Imbalances, Power Shifts and the Future of Multilateralism (April 12, 2007)
Originally posted on The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
Multilateral economic institutions are facing a period of unprecedented challenges — among these are large macroeconomic imbalances (including the US current account deficit), stalled negotiations at the WTO, and a much-reduced IMF. Three economists — Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel Laureate, Columbia University), Jose Antonio Ocampo (Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations) and Mark Weisbrot (Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research) — discuss these current challenges and their implications for economic growth and development. The panel discussion is moderated by Edmund Andrews (New York Times) and followed by a brief question and answer period.
NEW Stuart Hall - Globalization - Cartographies of Power (October 1, 2003) Originally posted on darkmatter journal
Professor Stuart Hall presented a discussion about globalization at the Centre for Cultural Studies (CSS, Goldsmiths, London University) event
NEW William R. Clark, discusses his book Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar and his groundbreaking essay "It’s the Energy and the Economy, Stupid."
Originally posted on www.weeklysignals.com
NEW The Possible Future of Terrorism
Originally posted on KERA.org
Few writers can synthesize the realities of geopolitics and terrorism into fiction like Richard A. Clarke. Clarke has served as an advisor to four presidents, including three years as the counterterrorism czar for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Richard A. Clarke will join us this hour to discuss the possible future of terrorism as depicted in his latest novel "Breakpoint" (Putnam, 2007).
NEW Paul Maidment and Carolyn Kissane
Originally posted on The Leon Charney Report
Leon Charney Forbes.com’s Paul Maidment and NYU’s Professor Carolyn Kissane about geopolitics and the world and U.S. economy.
DeepJournal interviews RTL-Z reporter Willem Middelkoop - part 2 ‘The question is not if, but when this financial system is going to fail’ Willem Middelkoop is an investor and freelance economics reporter for the Dutch financial report RTL Z. Based on his expertise and his sources - newsletters from insiders and conversations with bankers and financial analysts - Middelkoop believes that the question is not if the current financial system is going to fail, but when. What might then ensue, and how one can prepare for it, will be addressed in future conversations. The following interview [MP3, part two of two, recorded 8 February 2006] lays the groundwork for this.
Doit-on craindre la mondialisation ?
avec Raymond Barre et Jacques de Larosière
Pourquoi dit-on que la mondialisation est inéluctable ? Peut-on aboutir à une mondialisation "heureuse", ou du moins, économiquement et socialement efficace ? La mondialisation induit-elle forcément un creusement des inégalités ? Réponses avec Raymond Barre et Jacques de Larosière.
Rencontre avec Hubert Védrine
Pour son dernier livre "Continuer l’histoire"
Hubert Védrine, ancien ministre des Affaires étrangères de 1997 à 2002, a travaillé vingt-deux ans avec François Mitterrand, dont quatorze ans à l’Elysée. Sa connaissance des relations internationales fait de lui un personnage écouté et reconnu. "Continuer l’histoire", son dernier essai, affronte gaillardement la complexité des relations internationales.
Interview with Dr. Walid Phares, author of Future Jihad and The War of Ideas CI Centre President David Major talks with Dr. Walid Phares, the author of the highly recommended books, Future Jihad and The War of Ideas. They discuss the jihadist war against democracy, how jihadists have affected our education system and how we can win the war of ideas.
BBC DocArchive: China’s Long Arm 1
Maurice Walsh examines whether US government concerns about rising defence spending in China will fuel a new arms race in the Pacific.
BBC DocArchive: China’s Long Arm 2
Maurice Walsh considers whether China might use its growing military power to reclaim Taiwan, possibly provoking a confrontation with the US.
BBC DocArchive: China’s Long Arm 3
Lucy Ash assesses the wider impact of China’s insatiable appetite for natural resources, and focuses on the special relation with Angola and its oil.
BBC DocArchive: China’s Long Arm 4
China has turned its attention to the US in its search for natural resources, even enabling the re-opening of an abandoned iron mine in Minnesota.
BBC Interview: Gao Xiqing 19Oct07 – a man with 200 billion dollars to invest for the Chinese government. Gao Xiqing knows how things work in China and he tells Carrie Gracie all about it
Conversation with historian Gabriel Kolko
US-Turkish Relations: In a Critical Phase
OIL COMPANIES ON THE DEFENSIVE IN KAZAKHSTAN
Oil, War and Geopolitics: The Global Struggle Over Disappearing Petroleum
Noam Chomsky and Robert Fisk: War, Geopolitics, and History
Eva Joly about globalization and corruption(French/Francais)
Tzvetan Todorov about his essay "Le nouveau desordre mondial"(French/Francais)
Jean-Jacques Roche - Professeur à l’Université Panthéon-Assas (French/Francais)
The Art of Counter-Terrorism - Larry Johnson, CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an
international business-consulting firm with expertise combating
terrorism and investigating money laundering.
Democracy Now! Headlines for October 23, 2007; Middle East Analyst & Historian Juan Cole on U.S. War Plans Against Iran, Turkey and His New Book "Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East; 60 Arrested at No War, No Warming Protests in Washington; Environmental Journalist Bill McKibben on the Links Between Global Warming & the California Wild Fires
Central Asia - Global Competition for its Oil Reserves
3 Oct 2005
This Podcast focuses on the growing competition for supply of Central Asian oil supplies because it involves a number of factors including, the increasingly desperate search for oil reserves, the key geo-political position of Central Asia, especially the area around the Caspian Sea, the pressure on China to expand its influence, and possibly its control, westwards into the Central Asian states, and the pressure in the region for recognition of the rights of the inhabitants.
Interview with Pierre Verluise.(French/Francais)
Quels sont aujourd’hui les rapports entre l’UE et la Russie ?
