A new global order: Bretton Woods II...and San Francisco II, Simon Maxwell Dirk Messner (1)
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Global leaders are preparing to meet in Washington on 15 November 2008 for a summit of the G20 group of states and representatives of leading international financial institutions. The gathering is being ambitiously named "Bretton Woods II" - echoing the conference on 1-22 July 1944 which established the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). With George W Bush presiding, and Barak Obama waiting in the wings, ...
Silverlight Toolkit launched (1)
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As you may already know Scott Guthrie announced the launch of Silverlight Toolkit at PDC08. A lot of cool features are included. Check out yourself at CodePlex. You can also see the Demo. Here are some related resources: Silverlight Toolkit Now Available For Download - Shawn Burke talks about the launch of the Silverlight Toolkit. Sorry boss, I just released the new Silverlight Controls source code to the world – Jeff Wilcox who was working ...
America and Syria: a political raid, Paul Rogers (1)
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A single incident can often reveal much about the thinking of its architects. This is certainly true of the United States's military raid across the Iraq-Syria border on 26 October 2008, even though at present it is still surrounded by more speculation than fact. The attack in the Abu Kamal region seems to have killed eight people - most of whom were civilians, according to local sources. The briefings from US officials contest this, and ...
Turkey's Islamic democrats , Max Farrar (1)
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A week in Istanbul can hardly fail to be an enriching experience for the intellectually curious visitor - even more when this great city, and Turkey generally, is at the heart of so many of the world's shaping concerns of faith and politics. This was certainly the case for me, when I stayed in Istanbul as a guest of the London-based Dialogue Society which supports the ideas and aims of the influential Islamic thinker Fethullah ...
Beyond the triple crisis: a green new deal, Ann Pettifor (1)
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It is a small measure of the dramatic financial meltdown of 2007-08 that leading representatives of western liberal capitalism ransacked the past for reference-points to convey its scale. The "most wrenching [financial crisis] since the end of the second world war", said former chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, in March 2008; the "largest financial shock since the great depression", said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in April; even "the largest financial ...
Roberto Saviano: Italian dissident , Geoff Andrews (1)
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The phenomenon of the Italian mafia has been depicted by many writers and filmmakers. Roberto Saviano's book Gomorrah - a gripping, unsentimental expose of the mafia in the southern city of Napoli, first published in May 2006 - is one of the very best. Its literary success, and the great acclaim which the film based on it has received, is also a measure of the Italian public's serious concern about the corrosion of much of ...
Nanolyse this! (33/27/22/9/10) (1)
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De-globalising the crisis, Grahame Thompson (1)
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The crisis in the international financial system is still unfolding and continued short-term policy firefighting is absolutely necessary. But what about the longer-term response: how should the authorities react in terms of new regulatory initiatives? The answer depends in part on an analysis of the nature of the crisis, and of what is happening in the system more generally. Grahame Thompson is professor of political economy at the Open University. He is the co-author (with ...
Russia's way: the Putin factor, Dmitri Travin (1)
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Russia's isolation by the international community in August-September 2008 was to a great extent determined by objective circumstances. However, one subjective factor played an important role too. That was the character of Vladimir Putin, who despite his change of role from President to Prime Minister remains the dominant political figure in the country. The economic growth of the last decade, based as it is on oil and gas, is the most important of these objective ...
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