Is the US flexing its metaphorical muscle in the realm of international affairs and the ‘Global War on Terror’ once again? In a move that could be viewed as the reassertion of the state’s authority over an increasingly globalized arena and international commons that has more recently allowed in the last decades for the...
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International Organizations
US retaking the reins from global civil society?
What did we learn from the MDG Review Summit and Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meetings?
A recent poll I stumbled upon via UN News Wire asks readers what they thought was the most important lesson learned from the 2010 UN Millennium Development Goal Summit and the Clinton Global Initiative Annual meetings, which took Manhattan and the world by storm last week.
The answer? With an overwhelming 46+ percentage of the vote,...
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A ‘United States of Africa’?
After winning election as the new chairman of the African Union at its latest summit in Addis Ababa, Libyan leader Muammer el-Qaddafi immediately began campaigning for his longtime pet project: an African federal government, or a “United States of Africa.” This system, he said, would allow for a single African military force, currency and passport. The...
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