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Issue 14/ April-May 2009
Global Affairs Issue 14 highlights in the first page the Hugo Chavez’s nationalizations policy. As usual, Hugo Chavez is becoming a star in world media due to his controversial character and manners, this time he becomes the star due to recent nationalizations carried out in Venezuela. According to the author “his victory in the last elections gave him carte blanche in every regards, especially in controlling his main aim: oil”. But Juan Luis Dorado warms that “threatening foreign companies settled in Venezuela” could slowdown to foreign investment in a near future however, “Chávez doesn’t care because he has got oil”. According to the author Chavez goes against everyone “he will keep on nationalising until the only thing left to nationalise would be himself”.

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Issue 13/ February-March 2009
This Global Affairs Issue 13 is concerned about the horrible situation in Gaza where innocent people are dying for no reason. As the author points out “Gaza opened the eyes of many around the world who went out to the streets, to say stop the killing and still demonstrate in the face of their hopeless governments that stood useless against this holocaust, who closed the curtains and shut their windows against the voices crying in their yard”. Furthermore he blames Israel as the only responsible for this war because “this war is not against rockets fired by Hamas, but against the population of Palestine that Israel finds it the main threat, and there will always be such slaughters if Israel is not sued for the crime committed in Gaza”.
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Issue 12/December-January 2009
The storyline of Global Affairs issue 12 is the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. Kim Young summarizes the most important milestones in the election campaign and highlights the importance of the slogan “Change We Can Believe In”. She describes President Obama as “steady and unflappable Obama reacting with calm, resolve and determination” that made him successful. In Latin America the election of the American president is seen with scepticism and hope because maybe it is also time for them for change, time to develop new perspectives that former American Administration denied them.
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Issue 11/October-November 2008
Approaching current international events Global Affairs Issue 11 highlights in its first page the recent military events between Georgia and Russia from three different perspectives: Russia and Georgia relations, Georgia-NATO and international equilibrium. Regarding the last one according to Enrico Labriola the international political equilibrium has to be set again looking at the reality, taking in consideration the economic and the geo-strategic key factors, “but having in mind a new political program to shape the future. The Georgian issue could be a sad and short parenthesis in the stream of the history, or a dramatic turning point for the years to come. The decisions made today, will influence the new equilibrium more than we could expect when the first bullet was shot in South Ossetia”.
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Issue 10/August-September 2008
Description: Global Affairs Issue 10 analyses deeply the consequences and future of the European Union after the Irish referendum regarding the Lisbon Treaty which was negative. Max Andersson, MP for the Swedish Green Party, points out the need of a new Convention, without any preconditions, which will be able to work out a brand new proposal for how EU is to be governed and “what tasks shall be assigned to it and how the competences shall be distributed between the EU and the member states”. He highlights the fact that every European member country should have a referendum about the proposal and such Convention should consist of “people with independent ideas about European questions; unlike the previous Convention it shall be made up of ordinary people instead of elderly politicians with strong inclinations to constructing the United States of Europe”. On the other hand, Glen Ruffle points out a democratic deficit that is affecting the European Union credibility due to recent statements of several European politicians.
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Issue 9/June-July 2008
The main article of Global Affairs Issue 9 concerns the military power of Israel in a time of conflicts, terrorism and war in the Middle East region. Pablo Gambandé, a specialist in Defence and Security issues, describes the huge military power of Israel through several classic Theories of Power “These Theories maintain that the use of force is a valid option to achieve the aims of a State’s foreign politics”. The author explains how Jewish non-state armed groups contributed to the creation of the State of Israel and when the State of Israel was created it ensured the survival of the Jewish people by establishing Israel’s armed forces in 1948. In future conflicts “non-State armed actors would be the best option available for Israel’s enemies”.
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Issue 8/April-May 2008
Following the international affairs in vogue we should highlight the current political situation of Cuba and analyse the future of the island. Juan Luis Dorado (journalist specialized in Latin America politics) points outs an unchallenged future for the Havana due to the fact that Fidel Castro will remain on the compass of life in Cuba in all fields, as he has been in the last 50 years the only difference is that “now he will not be the leader of the orchestra, rather hired to write the songs, to give them form via his weekly reflections”.
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Issue 7/ February-March 2008
It is really difficult to face the large number of current international affairs in order to choose those most relevant to be analyzed in this Global Affairs issue 7. Resulting from such task is our first page devoted to repercussions of Benazir Bhutto’s death, the former Pakistan Prime Minister who was murdered last December in a terrorist attack in Rawalpindi (Pakistan). In line with objectivity and impartiality principles that characterized this magazine, the same event is analyzed from two different perspectives therefore readers can get fully informed in the best way.
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Issue 6/December-January 2008
Turkey becomes the main character due to its potential accession to the EU, and on the other hand, due to recent conflict of Turkish Government with the PKK in the Northern Iraq. Sahara also plays an important role because Sahrawi situation is analyzed from two different points of view: NGOs role regarding assistance to Sahrawi refugees and the political situation of population.
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Issue 5/October-November 2007
Once more, Global Affairs is full of interesting articles aiming at scanning the international relations from a new, fresh and deep perspective. In the first page of Issue 5 the Uyghur identity emergence as the Chinese Achilles’ heel is highlighted. The author denies the homogeneity of the Chinese reality and stresses its great ethnic-linguistic diversity and numerous conflicts as the Uyghur conflict which is a “secondary and ignored issue in the eyes of the international community”. The Uyghur separatism is a socioeconomic consequence of modernization process in China.
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Issue 4/August-September 2007
In this Issue 4 there is a deep analysis of recent elections in France and its main social consequences such as the revival in political interest of French citizens. The crisis in Darfur is described from different points of view such as economic war, a political one or an inter-ethnic groups’ conflict.
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Issue 3/ June-July 2007
The third issue of Global Affairs is full of interesting articles concerning international and current events such as the replacement of Chinese leaders - the fourth generation - which may imply important changes in Chinese society and economy and the increasing importance the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) grants to nationalist symbols as a means of political legitimation and so as to face globalization consequences on its culture and national identity.
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Issue 2/ April-May 2007
Now available the second issue of Global Affairs with topics: Colombia and Ecuador: upset states, The Chinese Financial System, Equatorial Guinea Half Century of inenterrupted dictatorship, Recalling Taiwan´s Tragic Past the Feb-28 Incident…
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Issue 1 / February 2007
In the first issue of Global Affairs Eugenio Bregolat, the Spanish ex-ambassador in China gives an account of the evolution of the China-Spain bilateral relations. Other issues are the Red Khmers trial in Cambodia or the “Para-Policy” phenomenon in Colombia as well as the reconstruction of Cuba without Castro and the current situation in Sarajevo.