Institute on Governance Chinese President Xi Jinping greets members of the 21st Century Council Members of the Berggruen Institute’s 21st Century Council had the opportunity to gain a firsthand glimpse into the mindset of China’s new leadership during a rare, wide-ranging discussion with President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in early November on the eve of the recent Third Plenum of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, which announced a broad array of reforms. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (6th L) with members of the 21st Century Council in the Great Hall of the People, Beijing We also met with Premier Li Keqiang, top generals of the People’s Liberation Army and other ranking officials from National People’s Congress, key drafters of the new reforms, and governors and Party secretaries from Zhejiang, Guangdong and Yunnan provinces. (see our recent Bloomberg column for our report and analysis.
Chatham House: Independent thinking on international affairs Peter R Neumann, July 2013 Though widely used by academics and policy-makers in the context of the 'war on terror', the concept of radicalization lacks clarity. This article shows that while radicalization is not a myth, its meaning is ambiguous and the major controversies and debates that have sprung from it are linked to the same inherent ambiguity. The principal conceptual fault-line is between notions of radicalization that emphasize extremist beliefs ('cognitive radicalization') and those that focus on extremist behavior ('behavioural radicalization'). This ambiguity explains the differences between definitions of radicalization; it has driven the scholarly debate, which has revolved around the relationship between cognition and behavior; and it provides the backdrop for strikingly different policy approaches - loosely labeled 'European' and 'Anglo-Saxon' - which the article delineates and discusses in depth.
Blog Wednesday's Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC has brought a lot of speculation about the likely growth in the role of big donors now that overall limits on donations to parties, PACs and candidates have been demolished. But what effect will the ruling have on the share of campaign contributions coming from men versus women? In the 2012 election cycle, 644 individual donors hit the aggregate limit of $117,000. Among them, 501, or 78 percent, were men; women accounted for just 22 percent these contributors. By comparison, among all individual donors of more than $200 in the 2012 cycle, only 66.7 percent were men, and they accounted for 69.7% of campaign contributions.
Mali and the Scramble for Africa The French military intervention into Mali on Friday — France’s second in as many years into a former African colony — was reportedly “seconded” by the United States. This ought to come as no great surprise, given the Pentagon’s deepening penetration into Africa. According to the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), the Pentagon plans on deploying soldiers to 35 different African countries in 2013. As NPR reports, upwards of 4,000 U.S. soldiers will “take part in military exercises and train African troops on everything from logistics and marksmanship to medical care.” (The Malian army officer responsible for the country’s March coup just so happened to have received U.S. military training.) World Population Clock: 7 Billion People World Population: Past, Present, and Future (move and expand the bar at the bottom of the chart to navigate through time) The chart above illustrates how world population has changed throughout history. View the full tabulated data. At the dawn of agriculture, about 8000 B.C., the population of the world was approximately 5 million. Over the 8,000-year period up to 1 A.D. it grew to 200 million (some estimate 300 million or even 600, suggesting how imprecise population estimates of early historical periods can be), with a growth rate of under 0.05% per year.
The IR Theory Home Page Accueil Quelles sont les causes de la crise financière mondiale ? Eco + Net · 27 sep. 2008 à 19:05 Faillites bancaires, des milliards de dollars envolés, une croissance mondiale en berne, des gouvernements impuissants. Le capitalisme financier est en crise. Nicolas Sarkozy a expliqué cette semaine que c'était "la fin d'un monde" sans esquisser des pistes de sortie de crise. Les médias alignent en boucle les chiffres de la crise, les chutes des valeurs boursières, les pertes colossales de certaines banques, sans nécessairement expliquer réellement ce qui est en train de se passer en des termes simples. Global value chains Adam Smith Institute - the free-market think tank ABC de la sociologie des organisations - Cours de théorie des organisations La sociologie des organisations s'intéresse aux entités particulières que sont les organisations – définies comme un ensemble de personnes, de dispositifs techniques et de pratiques sociales en interaction - et applique des méthodes sociologiques à leur description. Elle étudie par exemple comment les acteurs construisent et coordonnent des activités organisées, l'identité au travail, la culture d'entreprise, l'histoire des formes d'organisation et la genèse des règles qui les régissent. On parle également de théorie des organisations, voire de sciences des organisations pour désigner l'ensemble des disciplines concernées (la sociologie, mais aussi l'économie, la gestion, les sciences politiques etc.).
Global Futures Studies & Research by The Millennium Project Europe - Robert Schuman Foundation - The french think tank on Europe Bertrand Badie : "La diplomatie d'Obama, c'est de l'hégémonie passive" {*style:<b>Andres : Peut-on conceptualiser ou du moins catégoriser l'expression <i>"hégémonie passive ?" </i> </b>*} {*style:<b>David Gonzalez : Comment peut-on qualifier de <i>"passive" </i> une puissance qui s'attache à renforcer son hégémonie, certes en déclin, au travers de différentes guerres et par l'imposition aux autres pays de son mode de fonctionnement ? La diplomatie américaine est loin de n' utiliser que le <i>"soft power" </i> que sa puissance pourrait lui conférer. N'est-ce pas plutôt l'UE qui pourrait, à la limite, être qualifiée de <i>"diplomatie passive" </i> ?