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Japan Exempted from Russian Countermeasures: Russian-Japanese Partnership Reaffirmed

Kazushige Kobayashi is a doctoral student in International Relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland, and a research fellow with the Europe-Asia Programme at the Balkan Security Agenda in Serbia. He holds Bachelor of Economics from Tohoku University in Japan, Master in International Affairs from the Geneva Graduate Institute, and has also studied at University of California at Davis and Moscow State Institute of International Relations. ...

07.08.2014

Global Education Magazine: International Women´s Day (8th March 2014)

Download here: http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/global-education-magazine-7/ THIS EDITION IS A TRIBUTE TO THE WOMEN WHO GIVE US LIFE "I saw that displaced women had many difficulties; they lived through atrocities and had enormous trauma. I realised that learning to write and training will help them forget the trauma, and what they had to go through. This is what pushed me to help these women and help them become independent" 2013 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award: Sister Angélique...

09.03.2014

Interview with “Mama” Hawa Aden Mohamed, 2012 Nansen Refugee Award

Interview with “Mama” Hawa Aden Mohamed, 2012 Nansen Refugee Award_Global Education Magazine from Global Education Magazine on Vimeo. Published in: http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/interview-mama-hawa-aden-mohamed-2012-nansen-refugee-award/ Javier Collado interviews Hawa Aden Mohamed with special occasion of World Refugee Day. Mrs. "Mama" Hawa was the founder and director of the Galkayo Education Centre for Peace and Development in Puntland, northeastern Somalia. She was...

16.10.2013

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: October 17th

Global Education Magazine is inspired in the universal values of the Declaration of Emerging Human Rights that aims to contribute to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by United Nations (MDGs) which is supported by the Regional Offices of Latin America and the Caribbean of UNESCO and UNHCR. An initiative launched by the teaching team that formulated the proposal most voted in the group “Sustainable Development for the Eradication of Poverty in Rio+20”. Our goal is to disseminate...

16.10.2013

The humanist quantum interference: towards the “homo conscienciatus”

Welcome to Global Education Magazine! A digital magazine inspired in the universal values of the Declaration of Emerging Human Rights that aims to contribute to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by United Nations (MDGs), which is supported by the Regional Offices of Latin America and the Caribbean of UNESCO and UNHCR. An initiative launched by the teaching team that formulated the proposal most voted in the group “Sustainable Development for the Eradication of Poverty in Rio+20”...

09.09.2013

Wait, New Japan Just Forgot About Russia? –A political consequence of Japanese election 2013 on Russia-Japan relations

... world’s second super power, the day may come when Russia will be called for security cooperation to balance the regional power distribution. Photo: The Voice of Russia http://voiceofrussia.com/2012_05_18/75132769/ 2. Population dynamics and silver democracy (energy security; post-nuclear disaster management; social security and elderly welfare; education) Japan is by any definition the most rapidly developing aging society in the world with its elderly population (age beyond 65 years old) is ...

16.08.2013

The Copenhagen hope: on democracy in the EU

... early 2000s, later Poland, Romania, and the ongoing woes about Hungary seem to have solidified the notion in European officialdom that it is an issue they have to resolve and indeed quickly - Hungary looks already lost. The argument that issues of democracy should remain the member states’ competence and that any pressure from Brussels regarding the democratic structure is a violation of “national sovereignty” (used in Hungarian official communication, for example, in the undefined,...

19.07.2013

What will democracy be like in a hundred years?

Tolerance vis-à-vis natural aggressiveness Fundamentals of classical democracy Democracy is a polity when a group of people governs themselves, according to a trivial definition. Several points are important in this regard. First, there can be a host of polities that can be called democracy. There is no universal definition ...

22.05.2012
 

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    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
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