Download MAP Winter 2011 We were losing any hope to see the Arab world catch up with the 21st century train: Asia and South America were taking their destiny into their own hands as they sank into obscurantism. In recent years and two months ago, the Arab world evoked more ...
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Let’s renew our stock of probable futures, by Franck Biancheri
Editorial of MAP-Autumn 2010 With MAP (Magazine d’Anticipation Politique), LEAP/E2020 has decided to launch a free quarterly publication in order to achieve two objectives: . to allow political anticipation to address political and social issues . reach as many citizens as possible interested in understanding the transformations that will characterize ...
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 »Can a Shelf Agreement Anchor Israel’s Security Demands, by Reut Institute
Israel’s position regarding its security demands, which entail undermining the sovereignty of a Palestinian state, narrows the chances for reaching an agreement. Essence of Warning During negotiations with the Palestinians in 1999-2001, Israel presented a number of security demands that included, among other things, the demilitarization of the Palestinian state, ...
Read More »USA – Political and military consequences of the US mid-term election, by GEAB
Political consequences: Towards an aggravation of US leadership weaknesses (leaders facing a loss of legitimacy, economic context of recession, diplomatic deadlock in Iraq/Iran/North Korea…) The recent choice by American voters, who have violently rejected the policy followed for six years, is nothing other than a loud cry for help [1] . ...
Read More »Book Vision 2020
25/10/2006 VISION 2020 : Reinventing Europe 2005-2020 A book remarked ever since its first publishing in June 2002 Jean Guyot, First financial director of the European Coal and Steel Community and former collaborator of Jean Monnet, prefaced the book. President of the Hippocrène Foundation, the first financial director ...
Read More »The Council of Europe on building common spaces in relations between Russia and the CE
by Mark Entin 11/01/2006 Russia needs for the Council of Europe’s strategic vision, a clear enterprising line on the Council of Europe (CE) transformation into an effective tool for its external and internal policies, a complex program for the participation in this authoritative international organization’s activity. For the ...
Read More »An inclusive world
by Sundeep Waslekar 13/02/2005 Once I read an interesting story. Someone met a little boy about 4 or 5 years old. He gave him a world map from a magazine, tore it into pieces and challenged him to put it together again. The boy did it in a ...
Read More »South America – Leading integration
by Ricardo Migueis 03/01/2005 Good economic results are providing South American countries with the momentum for planning national and sub-regional political and economic strategies, but their different stages of development are creating difficulties only a strong leadership can overcome. Strong economic growth based on exports and buoyant demand, particularly ...
Read More »What common foreign policy for the EU in 2020? EU neighborhood, UN reform, Human resources, Democratic legitimacy
Executive summary – Seminar GlobalEurope 2020 (Helsinki, October 26-27, 2004) 26/11/2004 Organized by Europe 2020 in cooperation with the Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the remarkable Finlandia Hall, this seventh Seminar of Anticipation, opened by Mr Erkki Tuomioja, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland, concluded the first series of ...
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