(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 »Tag Archives: global governance
September GEAB – Towards a (really) New World Order
The world is reorganizing, the populist wave has begun to retreat, the world is refocusing West (China) and East (Europe) of the United States, Hong Kong is turning towards China,…. In the short term, the financial crisis of 2020, which is widely anticipated, is likely to hit the IMF hard ...
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 »2016-2020 – Birth of global governance alongside the emergence of a new currency: new SDR paves the way to Globalisation and impacts the American dollar (Excerpt GEAB September 2016)
The world has been seeking a substitute for its reliance on the dollar since 2008. The dependency has been so strong, that it has taken almost a decade for a solution to be drafted. Strangely, this solution came from an institution perceived by some as obsolete, until China took the ...
Read More »Rising Powers and International Security: the BRICS and the Syrian Conflict, by Adriana Erthal Abdenur
Some rising powers, including the BRICS states (Brazil, Russia, India, China,and South Africa), have openly contested certain international security norms, for instance challenging the tendency to invoke humanitarian protection to carry out military intervention. However, the relevance of rising powers, and especially coalitions of such states, to specific conflicts remains ...
Read More »EuroBRICS Youth Platform and LEAP in Shangai for the Youth Innovation Competition on Global Governance 2016
Marie-Hélène Caillol, President of LEAP and some members of our Euro-BRICS Youth Platform are in Shangai for the Youth Innovation Competition on Global Governance (YICGG) in Shangai! It is hosted by the University of Fudan. Our President has been invited as member of the jury! YICGG2016 aims at gathering information about outstanding youths from all ...
Read More »Understanding the BRICS evolving influence and role in Global Governance and Development
We strongly encourage you to read this IDS Policy Briefing written by Richard Carey and Xiaoyun Li. Richard Carey is former Director of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Development Co-operation Directorate (DAC-DCD) and chair of the International Advisory Committee of the China International Development Research Network (CIDRN). We were ...
Read More »3rd Euro-BRICS Seminar (Cannes, Sept. 27-28, 2012) – Programme
REPORT Euro-BRICS 2012-2014: Towards a set of thematic cooperation networks based on a specific political-diplomatic framework organized by LEAP in partnership with MGIMO PROGRAMME Thursday 27/09/2012 – Towards the development of Euro-BRICS thematic networks (Salle Estérel 1) 09.00 – 09.30 Welcome 09.30 – 10.00 Opening . Welcome word by Marie-Hélène ...
Read More »Advice to the G20 leaders: The G20’s three strategic priorities in 2012/2014 to avoid a « tragic decade », by GEAB
On March 29, 2009, Franck Biancheri signed an open letter in the Financial Times international edition from LEAP/E2020 to the G20 leaders who were going to meet in London the next week. In its introduction, this text predicted that if the three recommendations it contained were not implemented as soon ...
Read More »South America – Towards regional integration or the next ’Middle East’ ? by Héctor R. Sánchez
“In the geopolitical sphere today, … , it is not unreasonable to say that, while the great continental powers in Eurasia, Russia, China and India, are in an excellent state of economic growth, technological development and growing political influence, the great maritime powers, like the United States, the European Union ...
Read More »