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globologFrom Nigerian beauty contests to structural adjustment policies, Caspar Henderson’s column is about globalisation. Globolog identifies and investigates global patterns behind the news.
A new Hollywood disaster film fantasises the convulsive effects of global climate change. But it’s the real world of Haiti and the Dominican Republic that blows Caspar Henderson away.
Does a preliminary ruling by the World Trade Organisation against US cotton open the way for radical change in the world trade system, indicating that international law can sometimes protect the weak from the strong?
On the tenth anniversary of genocide in Rwanda, ethnic cleansing and mass murder continues in Sudan. Will international attention come too late to prevent further tragedy in Africa’s largest country? Meanwhile, even greater loss of life from sources other than direct violence is neglected. New thinking and action are needed.
The terrorist atrocities in Madrid on 11 March, and the national election three days later, raise hard questions for Spaniards and Europeans, for Muslims and world citizens. What should they – we – do? openDemocracy invited 100 people from twelve countries to discuss the meaning and implications of these events. Caspar Henderson summarises a quietly passionate discussion.
“Iraq is in the most crucial few months of its history since its formation as a modern state in the 1920s”, the Iraqi activist Isam al-Khafaji told Globolog this week. If he’s right, careful thought, word and action is more important now than ever. And the role of women in Iraq’s future is central. But first, a couple of examples of speech where care is not apparent. Two weeks before suicide bombers killed at least 169 people in the 2 March attacks on Shi’a Muslims in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala and in Baghdad (see picture), the journalist John Pilger was asked if he thought the global anti-war movement should be supporting Iraq’s anti-occupation resistance. He replied:
Does a new Pentagon study indicate that the US government is finally getting serious about climate change?
The Millennium Development Goals cannot be achieved by their target date of 2015 without more US support. Could this be secured by an innovative proposal that combines self-interest and sympathy?
What is the World Bank for? More than ever, civil society groups challenge its credibility. Should it dwindle or morph? And what new development policies are needed?
Can humanity learn a new way of thinking, and thus break the pattern of a century of violence?
We don’t know whether or not oil supplies are running out. Yet even if they are, the world faces bigger problems.
A dozen sets of facts and figures about Globalisation in 2004. What do they reveal and what do they hide?
Whatever its critics say, the Kyoto protocol may still be the least worst option for progress on climate change.
As gay marriage, the economy and Iraq vie for space in US political discourse, dramatic events play out in the Latin American 'backyard', illustrating the complex effects of globalisation.
The unexpected outcome of the World Trade Organisation summit in Cancún, Mexico in September 2003 led to vigorous debate in openDemocracy. Caspar Henderson, our globalisation editor, explains how an innovative experiment – a hybrid of blog and discussion forum – was born.
Israel is a lightning rod of concern for anti-globalisers and neo-conservatives alike. Long-term developments in the country itself may yet surprise both groups.
There’s a dysfunction at the heart of globalisation. The US and Europe act against their own best interests.
The US and the countries of the European Union may argue over liberal intervention; but on key issues of global justice they are together, and on the wrong side.
When it comes to globalisation, where does wishful thinking end and clear-headed analysis begin?
For two weeks, openDemocracy’s Globalisation editor, Caspar Henderson, is on board the 93-year old ship “The Noorderlicht” – sailing to the Arctic in an innovative expedition that fuses art, film and science to monitor and communicate the impact of global warming. With the Dutch crew of four is a twenty-person group that includes photographers, oceanographers, artists, geographers, and writers. During the voyage, Globolog publishes Caspar’s vivid reports from an environment of deep currents and melting ice, where the bonds between nature and humanity take on fresh meanings.
The world trade system is in trouble. Where next for aid from rich to poor? Plus: how best can Iraqi people benefit from the country’s oil revenues?
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