What has been going on in Paris during the last weekend?
On Monday the COP conference entered its second and last week with little agreement between the parts. Laurent Fabius, French foreign minister and COP 21 president, Friday declared that what has been done so far “it’s not enough”.
And in fact, reading the draft treaty that…

American Decline: Chinese forces head to Syria to join with Russia in filling Obama's power vacuum and purportedly fight the Islamic State. A false move involving NATO member Turkey could mean world war. Russian and Chinese military sources now confirm that Chinese warships are en route to the Middle East to get in on some of the action of…

Disagreement about success and failure, and about learning and not learning from mistakes, far from being peculiar to debates about socialism, is endemic to all kinds of political debates. Debates about socialism have, however, been much complicated by the problem that it has never been clear whether socialism is to be regarded as a purely utopian…

                                  
The San Bernardino Killers
 
Days before the anniversary of Pearl Harbor came the December 2nd  massacre of Christmas party celebrants at a San…

http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/interview-ms-irina-bokova-director-general-unesco/ © GEM.Ms. Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO became Honorary Membership at Global Education Magazine. Javier Collado Ruano: Today, 5th December 2015, International Volunteer Day, we give welcome to our special guess: Ms. Irina Bokova, Director…

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The Ecological and Social Footprint: A Challenge for Global Citizenship
La huella ecológica y social: un desafío para la ciudadanía mundial
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On November 30th, Narendra Modi, Indian prime minister and François Hollande, president of France, launched together the “International Solar Alliance”. With the aim of providing developing countries with the technology for exploiting solar energy, Modi is heading an alliance of over 120 countries, situated in between the two tropics…

The 21st edition of the Conference of Parties (COP) is set to begin today, Monday November 30th in Paris. Organized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) it aims at bringing together world leaders in order to find an agreement over gas emissions and global warming for the period post 2020.  According to most…

 
When Turkey shot down that Russian bomber, what exactly was in the message and from whom, more importantly, was it coming from? Who was it that was really saying, “Come on baby light my fire. Try to set the night on fire?”
 
The fact that the Turkish plane, which shot down the Russian bomber, was an American made machine…

Recently I have bumped into a very interesting article by Marco Siddi dealing with the concept of identity building in international relations, an important branch of constructivist research theory. More specifically, the paper tried to give an explanation of why Germany, Lithuania and Poland have developed determinate national identities, and…

By Mathew Maavak
 
Mathew Maavak is a doctoral researcher in Security Foresight at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).
 
Time to reorient our worldview?
 
“Global interconnectedness” and “global governance” are the unchallenged dictums of the day. But is this Eurocentric axiom relevant anymore? This may…

This was written as the Paris attacks unfolded.  I have preserved the unfolding nature of the original piece to connect the reader in a deeper sense to what I was feeling as I wrote this.

As this historic terrorist attack unfolds, France, Europe, the West, and the Middle East need to really think about what they've been doing and what…