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Contra Zadek: a global deal is worth the candle,

The value of Copenhagen, Martin Bunzl Simon Zadek is ready to declare Copenhagen dead, along with any kind of agreement that depends on long-term commitments by sovereign states. He thinks the core of the problem is a function of what he calls ...

From TONY CURZON PRICE, openDemocracy,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bunzl, plc,  Wang Tao,  European Union

Reclaiming realism for idealists; welcome to our new website,

a cleaner look for online reading and browsing you can see our editorial Sections and what they're about clearly you can access topics for navigation more easily (and we have further enhancements planned) you can get better sense of the content / ...

From TONY CURZON PRICE, openDemocracy,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Drupal

No pressure, then: religious freedom in Islam,

Abrogation Unique specificity Freedom for dhimmis The descriptive turn No forced renunciations of Islam To understand the place of religious freedom in Islam, I will ...

From TONY CURZON PRICE, openDemocracy,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sayyid Qutb,  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Greening the next green revolution, Kathleen Blake Bohne

There is no change in our daily lives as revolutionary, or as taken for granted, as the transformation of food production in the past century. Scientific and technological advances have allowed us to feed a human population that doubled twice in the ...

From TONY CURZON PRICE, openDemocracy,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Norman Borlaug,  Rockefeller Foundation,  Paul Ehrlich,  Reason Magazine,  Scientific American

Aid - dead or alive?, Chola Mukanga

Dambisa Moyo is tired and frustrated by the aid apparatus that has not only come to “trap” poor and indebted African states but is, in her view, the root cause of poverty. The central argument of Dead Aid is that aid is the fundamental cause of poverty ...

From TONY CURZON PRICE, openDemocracy,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michael Sata

Central Asia's looming water crisis, Isabel Hilton

First published on ChinaDialogue The region's difficulties go back to the time when all five central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) were part of the USSR, and disastrous Soviet development policies ...

From TONY CURZON PRICE, openDemocracy,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: NASA

United by lines, not divided, Parag Khanna

Parag Khanna looks at the lines on maps that unite us, not the borders that divide us. Empires drew borders, nationalisms splintered them; the cold war drew borders and its end has again increased the number of borders. But globalisation draws ...

From TONY CURZON PRICE, openDemocracy,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Creative Commons

Hu's carbon intensity claims: how credible?,

To be a deep citizen is to belong to the world, to Be there by choice and to take care of self, others and world. Isabel Hilton reads the claim as an inauspicious move in the smoke and mirrors of multilateral climate diplomacy, while Julian Wong argues ...

From TONY CURZON PRICE, openDemocracy,  27 Sep 2009

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Cameron's "You The People" Conservatism, Jerome di Costanzo

Jerome di Costanzo is a writer and journalist. He blogs for ladroitelibreand lives in Yorkshire How this quote from a mid-19th century Swiss politician could perfectly transpose to Britain today! Jonathan Steinberg, author of "Why Switzerland?" goes ...

From TONY CURZON PRICE, openDemocracy,  16 Jun 2009

Related Topics: David Cameron,  UK Conservative Party,  Edmund Burke,  Gordon Brown,  David Davis

Doctorow's plea for disabled rights from WIPO, Geneva, openDemocracy

I am attending a meeting in Geneva of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This evening the United States government, in combination with other high income countries in "Group B" is seeking to block an agreement to discuss a treaty for ...

From TONY CURZON PRICE, openDemocracy,  30 May 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House

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