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Verso la fine di novembre, alla vigilia di una visita in Germania, Vladimir Putin ha scritto un articolo per la «Sueddeutsche Zeitung» proponendo all’Europa di lanciare insieme alla Russia «una nuova ondata di industrializzazione»: alleanze strategiche dal settore dell’auto al nucleare, un’infinita area di libero scambio tra Lisbona e Vladivostok.

Not only the transatlantic allies that are awaiting the upcoming release of NATO’s 2010 new strategic concept, but also do many of the alliance’s partners especially in the Middle East and the Gulf. The wide array of eminent security threats, predominantly emanating from inside the region, and the evident convergence in threat perception between NATO and its Arab partners renders it increasingly important for the alliance to revise and reinvigorate its multilateral and bilateral security relations in the area.

The paper takes into account the trajectory of the Indian economic growth since the start neoliberal reforms (1991). By adopting a political economy perspective, the paper aims to highlight the uneven social impact of the reform process. In doing so, the paper summarizes specifically a) the nature of the contemporary agrarian crisis and its social implications; b) the impact of neoliberal reforms on labour generation, with specific attention to the secondary and tertiary sectors’ growth trajectories; c) the poverty and food insecurity questions.

One credible researcher, Nobel Prize winner Robert Fogel, estimates that China’s GDP will reach US$123 trillion by 2040, and that it will be twice the size of the GDPs of the U.S. and the E.U. combined. None of us know if the future will unfold exactly as Dr. Fogel predicts; certainly I do not. But two facts are abundantly clear: the future of global economics and trade will be quite different from its past; and second, China will be a large part of that difference.