(excerpt from the publication One Day in 2053, published in 2013 by Anticipolis) The crisis we are going through is not just a short-term economic crisis. This is a crisis that we have identified as historical since the beginning. In February 2006, we characterized it as challenging “the world as ...
Read More »GEAB 2009 archive – Controlled nuclear dissemination: Urgent action is needed to avoid a direct Israel/Iran conflict
This paper was published 10 years ago, in October 2009, in LEAP’s confidential letter, the GlobalEurope Anticipation Bulletin. It is particularly interesting to review it today in the present context that questions all nuclear agreements. “According to LEAP/E2020, it is not by chance that Iran’s nuclear programme is at the ...
Read More »August GEAB – A retrospective of our anticipations on the Middle-East
During the summer break, the GEAB likes to look back. This year we selected 7 major anticipations picked along our 13 years of existence, 7 anticipations for a vision! As a modern Middle-East’s birth lingers despite the huge repositioning of the region’s main players, this retrospective allows to take the ...
Read More »Climate 2040: Rationalizing the situation and the stakes to regain the future, by Christel Hahn
Nowadays, the generations who have blithely soiled the planet with outrageous liberalism, preaching the virtuous mechanics of the “invisible hand”, are asking the new generations to stop consuming, eating and breathing in order to avoid nothing less than the end of the world. Admittedly, there is nothing new about fixing ...
Read More »World 4.0: Between Renaissance and religious wars
Excerpt of the November 2018 edition of LEAP’s confidential bulletin As we’ve said many times before, the historical period of humanity we are going through now is of the same nature as that of the Renaissance, though of greater magnitude. As in the 14th century, new technologies and openness to ...
Read More »GlobalEurope 2040 – L’Europe et le monde: Un multilatéralisme à repenser, par Jordi Lafon
Dans un monde difficile à lire pour de nombreux commentateurs et acteurs, qu’attendre de l’Europe, de l’Union européenne et des pays qui la composent? Les modèles politiques nées en Europe ont souvent influencé le reste du monde, que ce soit par le biais d’une influence subie issue de la colonisation ...
Read More »A Case for a Democratic and Modern Governance for the Planet, by Christel Hahn
The last G20 summit in Hamburg saw unprecedented violent protests, unelected bodies like the IMF or the IPCC shape our economies, the UNO and its financing is in a crisis and the EU is being questioned by Brexiters and other popular movements, yet problems of planetary dimension keep piling up. ...
Read More »The New Development Bank of BRICS: current innovations and challenges, by Prof Roberta Ciampo*
This paper was presented in EURISPES – LABORATORY ON BRICS – 6th Experts Meeting, Rome 12 June 2018 Introduction The need to face the infrastructural gap and the lack of resources among the BRICS countries had induced governments to create in 2015 their own financial institution, the New Development Bank ...
Read More »A Valentine Gift from South Africa, by Michael Kahn
So what is the state of South Africa, twenty four years into the democratic experiment? As with all questions, the answer differs according to who one asks, and where they stand, the latter being understood both literally and metaphorically. Valentine’s Day 2018 witnessed the grudging resignation of President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa ...
Read More »Africa-EU Summit: Towards a revolution in the mentalities? By Magaye Gaye
A new Africa-Europe summit scheduled on November 29-30 in Abidjan this time. It seems that the Europe-African partnership has not proved its effectiveness yet. The current situation proves it due to the migratory wave of desperate youth coming to a still convalescent Europe in terms of growth. The two continents ...
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