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In the last week of September, world leaders gathered in New York for the general debate marking the opening of the 68th UN General Assembly (GA). This was an important moment for the post-2015 process, as several events were organized on the glob…

The ongoing crisis in the Middle East increasingly looks to be a replicate of the divisions of the Cold War when local conflicts became proxy conflicts for the confrontation between East and West. Of course, ideological commitment has been replace…

Guestblogger Pellini on evidence-based policy making in the debate on Syria in the British parliament.

Burundi is of little or no geopolitical or strategic importance. Unlike its neighbours, a lack of significant natural resources or celebrity engagement means that only the threat of a slide back into civil war awakens otherwise dormant internation…

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In a sequel of three blog post Alex Calvo examines the wider geopolitical issues that are likely to be affected by the nuclear incident in Fukushima Daiichi, Japan.   In a previous posting, Mr Calvo discussed the Nuclear Renaissance. In th…

Reporting on the trouble at Fukushima Daiichi’s nuclear facilities initially focused on the possibility of a meltdown, and has later concentrated on the repair works being conducted and the small radioactivity leaks which have taken place.It is to…

How can foreign policy today benefit from complexity sciences?

Part of the current Dutch societal dialogue on nanotechnology is the international dimension: implications of nanotechnology for peace, security and the interests of people in developing countries.

A new institutional architecture for global development is sorely needed.

Faced with new geopolitical and environmental challenges, the French government as well as NGOs are changing their rhetoric. A focus on European and international efforts to promote a sustainable world is replacing old slogans of development.

The decisions that are made in the autumn of 2009 will shape Europe’s international role in the future.

On 23 June 2009, the Residence Palace in Brussels hosted the High Level Policy Forum ‘After 2015: promoting pro-poor growth after the MDGs’. The forum was a joint initiative of IDS, DSA, EADI, DFID and ActionAid.

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