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By Ramesh Thakur*
This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission.
CANBERRA, Australia, 4 May 2023 (IDN) — For several years now many analysts have commented on the looming demise of the liberal international order constructed at the end of the Second World War under US leadership.
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, 17 April 2023 (IDN) — The four-day-old military conflict in Sudan—between two factions of the country’s armed forces—is threatening to unleash a civil war reminiscent of two other nations in the Middle East: Yemen and Syria
The conflict in both countries has resulted in two of the worst humanitarian disasters in recent years resulting in thousands of civilian killings and widespread starvation caused by an acute shortage of food and humanitarian aid.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs*
NEW YORK, 15 April 2023 (IDN) — US foreign policy is based on an inherent contradiction and fatal flaw. The aim of US foreign policy is a US-dominated world in which the US writes the global trade and financial rules, controls advanced technologies, maintains militarily supremacy, and dominates all potential competitors. Unless US foreign policy is changed to recognize the need for a multipolar world, it will lead to more wars, and possibly World War III.
By UN Academic Impact (UNAI)
NEW YORK, 12 April 2023 (IDN) — Covering more than 70% of the planet, the oceans are arguably Earth’s most powerful resource. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States, close to six hundred thousand kilometers of coastline edge them, and almost one-third of the world’s population—2.4 billion people—live within 160 kilometers of their shores. On that note, ocean degradation is one of humanity’s most compelling challenges, also addressed in the Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life below Water.
By Vijay Prashad*
This article was produced by Globetrotter.
NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts | USA, 7 April 2023 (IDN) — In late February 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that the United States had placed the nomination of Ajay Banga to be the next head of the World Bank, established in 1944.
There will be no other official candidates for this job since—by convention—the U.S. nominee is automatically selected for the post. This has been the case for the 13 previous presidents of the World Bank—the one exception was the acting president Kristalina Georgieva of Bulgaria, who held the post for two months in 2019.
By Kalinga Seneviratne
SYDNEY | TOKYO, 3 April 2023 (IDN) — Addressing a live-streamed conference held at Soka University in Tokyo on 29 March in preparation for the G7 summit in May, which Japan hosts, Takashi Ariyoshi, Deputy Secretary General of the G7 Hiroshima Summit Secretariat said that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had put high priority to include nuclear disarmament in the agenda of the summit.
By Kalinga Seneviratne
SYDNEY, 1 April 2023 (IDN) — On March 21, when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) made a long-awaited official announcement that it has approved a $3 billion "bailout" for Sri Lanka, President Ranil Wickremasinghe's supporters lighted firecrackers to welcome the news. But local sceptics doubt whether the IMF is really bailing out the people of Sri Lanka or serving US geo-political interests.
By Kalinga Seneviratne
SYDNEY | TOKYO, 31 March 2023 (IDN) — A one-day conference at Soka University in Tokyo on March 29 titled 'Advancing Security and Sustainability at the G7 Hiroshima Summit' discussed the complex problem of swaying the focus away from the Ukraine war towards green development and food and energy security at the forthcoming May summit of the world's advanced economies, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as the European Union.
By Jonathan Power*
LUND, Sweden, 28 March 2023 (IDN) — “The truth is awful things are now happening. Last year there were race riots in Oldham in the old industrial revolution heartland of England. This year it is the burning of Jewish synagogues in Marseilles by Muslim youths angry at the Israeli response to the Intifada. All over Europe, it is the undoubted rise of crime among immigrant youth.”
By Saisha Shrestha and Simone Galimberti
KATHMANDU, 12 March 2023 (IDN) — Guthi, an ancient social institution of the Newari community in Nepal, if made more inclusive, could herald new ways of people-centred decision-making.
Can traditional forms of community decision-making herald a new way of decision-making and therefore pave the way for a different form of governance?
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