The 50th anniversary of the independence of the Democratic Republic of Congo offers an occasion to review the successes and failures of this African giant.
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Any observer of Turkish politics today would easily admit that the democratic glamour of the AKP’s first term in power is long over. The downward trend in question roughly began with the shelving of the EU accession reforms in 2005, continued with a number of controversial amendments regarding the authority of the security forces and freedom of expression, and culminated in the stillborn initiatives of 2009 to improve the status of Kurdish and Alevi citizens.
This paper exposes the modernization policies in Russia and how they clash with the Russian political pattern, which is inclined to shut itself up like an oyster.
The paper ends with Medvedev’s latest positions which are happily aligned with the Okinawa Charter statements, especially regarding some prospective new strategies for Russian political, economic and technological modernization, and Medvedev’s attempt to bring Russia towards a more-or-less defined e-Democracy, once more colliding with the classical political pattern.
The repercussions of the vote in South Sudan are doomed to extend well beyond Sudan, or the two Sudans after the likely secession of the Southern provinces. Despite the legality of the referendum, the African Union is aware of the historical moment that the whole Africa is about to face. The break-up of Sudan is likely to trigger off a snowball effect, threatening the integrity of other African states.
The year 2011 marks the twentieth anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In 1991 fifteen states emerged from the Union, each with its own specificities and each with challenging tasks ahead: to maintain public order, to rebuild identities, societies, laws and economic systems. In a nutshell, fifteen parallel processes of state and nation building started simultaneously, with a wide set of outputs.
Il 2010 è stato caratterizzato da un ritorno alla crescita economica: dopo la contrazione del 2009 (-0,5%), il PIL mondiale è tornato a crescere (5,0%), così come le principali economie occidentali, seppur con ritmi differenti.
2010 was a bad year for the Korean Peninsula. Unless there are dramatic policy changes in North Korea related to the development of its missile and nuclear programs, 2011 could become an equally negative year as regards peace and stability on the peninsula.
What happened in 2010? On March 26, a North Korean submarine fired a torpedo sinking a South Korean warship killing 46 South Korean sailors.
Protagonisti dei dieci anni che hanno capovolto il mondo, dal 2000 al 2010. Sicuri protagonisti del secondo decennio di quello che è stato definito il secolo dell’Asia, ma che in realtà sarà il “secolo del Sud del mondo”, a fronte di quel che appare uno strisciante ma quanto mai inesorabile declino del Nord del globo. È l’avanzata dei paesi emergenti, (molti ormai emersi a pieno titolo), scritta nel Dna della Storia.
Dal 1° gennaio Dilma Rousseff subentrerà a Lula come presidente del Brasile.
Il 2010 avrebbe dovuto essere ricordato come quello delle nuove istituzioni europee create dal Trattato di Lisbona appena entrato in vigore: dall'entrata in scena di Herman von Rompuy e Catherine Ashton, dall'avvio della nuova Commissione (la Barroso-2) e dal lancio del servizio diplomatico europeo (il Seae). È stato invece, soprattutto, l'anno della crisi della zona euro, dalla Grecia all'Irlanda, e forse ora giù di nuovo verso Sud.