http://www.globalaffairs.es/en Otro blog más de WordPress Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:13:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Issue 21/July-September 2010 By Frank Vollmer Mozambique is a country that is riddled with poverty. It is placed on the UN's list of the 50 Least Developed Countries, and accommodates 0.61% of the world's population living below the global poverty line of US$1 a day. It continues to have one of ... http://www.globalaffairs.es/en/measuring-poverty-in-mozambique-a-critique/ By Guy Burton Issue 21/July - September 2010 The past decade has seen a push towards separation and unilateralism on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Following a decade of engagement under the Oslo process, the shift occurred after the outbreak of the second Intifada. It was a ... http://www.globalaffairs.es/en/the-myth-of-separation-in-the-israel-palestine-conflict/ Issue 20/April-June 2010 By Niruban Balachandran The Transformed International Security Environment "With the Soviet Union receding in memory, it is a wonder that NATO still exists," wrote former National Security Council Director Mark Medish on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's 60th anniversary celebrations last year. "After the fall of the Soviet bloc ... http://www.globalaffairs.es/en/nato-changed-priorities-reflect-this-decades-coming-security-challenges/ Issue 20/April-June 2010 By Guy Burton If economic development under the Lula administration can be likened to a football match, it may be seen as a case of two distinct halves - and which may be heading for extra time. That it does so will be regardless of whoever follows ... http://www.globalaffairs.es/en/lula-and-economic-development/ Issue 20/April -June 2010 By Javier Delgado Thailand has been severely hit by a deeply-rooted and now overly exposed social clash. The Red-Shirt demands, the camps' raising factionalism, and the hidden agendas across the divide could be tracked down into the divisive figure of Thaksin Shinawatra. His rise in 2001 to the ... http://www.globalaffairs.es/en/thaksin-shinawatra-the-man-who-broke-up-thailand/ Issue 20/April-June 2010 By Roseanna Elizabeth Cox When you think about the ocean, you shouldn't have images of bloated fish bobbing around on the surface, surrounded by greasy swirls of oil, tar balls washing up on shore lines or sea birds trapped in oil slicks, waiting to die. Since late April 2010, ... http://www.globalaffairs.es/en/the-mexican-gulf-oil-spill-and-its-economic-consequences/ Issue 20/April-June 2010 By Glen Ruffle On 11th May 2010, the 53rd Prime Minister in Britain's history, David Cameron, took power. Yet it was not in the way that nearly every other took power before him. Under the First Past the Post electoral system, Britain is usually given one strong party ... http://www.globalaffairs.es/en/the-uk-election-a-marriage-of-convenience-or-true-love/ Issue 20/ April-June 2010 By Xavier Cornut "Oh mother, I see the hangman's noose in front of me. They are going to execute me. Please save me." Delara Darabi, 22, screamed in the phone of her parents last May from the jail of Rasht, northern Iran. A few minutes later, the ... http://www.globalaffairs.es/en/iran-and-human-rights/ By Niruban Balachandran Photo: Global Affairs China http://www.globalaffairs.es/en/america-and-china/ Issue 20/April-June 2010 By Glen Ruffle "There is no way in which one can buck the market" said Margaret Thatcher to the British House of Commons in 1988 [1]. What was true then is still true now. Market economics simply cannot be avoided: if you spend more than you earn, you ... http://www.globalaffairs.es/en/you-cant-defeat-the-market/