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    Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis
    December 2011
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras

    The politics of change in land use and in property relations linked to cases of land grabbing are not well understood, and yet are crucial to a deeper understanding of the phenomenon; this paper explores these topics, providing a preliminary analysis.

    Week of Action on Investment
    December 2011
    Cecilia Olivet

    In November 2011, Brussels was the stage for a 'Week of Action' which looked to expose the threat of Bilateral Investment Treaties to democratic governance and public interest and to advocate for an Alternative Investment Regime. 

    A Coup D'Etat in the European Union?
    October 2011
    Susan George

    European Union workers’ pretentions to better pay and working conditions, shorter working lives, munificent retirement benefits, long holidays and time off for this and that have got to be brought under control!  Enough is enough! 

    Globalising Hunger
    Globalising Hunger cover page
    October 2011
    Thomas Fritz

    While the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) persists with its central focus of fostering competitiveness and exports of European agribusiness, it will continue to undermine small-scale farming and create greater food insecurity in the global South.

     

    Austerity Forever
    October 2011
    Kenneth Haar, Corporate Europe Observatory

    The European Union’s new model of economic governance, including the Euro Pact, is a model of prolonged austerity.

    Financial Governance Beyond the Crisis
    October 2011
    Interview by Sofia T. Jarrin

    Dr. Pedro Paez talks about the creation of a new financial architecture in Latin America, based on principles of redistribution, environmental sustainability and social cohesion rather than market principles that dominated the old architecture.

    The public debt crisis in Greece
    October 2011
    Marica Frangakis, Nicos Poulantzas Institute, Athens

    Every story needs a narrative, an explanation of why things happened the way they did. In such a narrative lie the answers of how to avoid/correct similar developments in the future and how to propagate positive ones.

    Supranational governance: a challenge to building resilient states and peace
    September 2011
    David Sogge

    In troubled areas, the vital work of building peace and resilient states continues to be undone by weak and distorted governance at the supranational level. 

    The case against the Economic Partnership Agreement
    August 2011
    Alternative Regionalisms

    One of the main lessons of the global economic crisis that has cast its shadow since 2008 is that this is the time to be diversifying trade away from over-reliance on EU markets. It is clear to all observers that the economic chaos engulfing the EU in its euro-zone heartlands shows no end in...

    Abandon the Washington Consensus, forge the Istanbul Consensus
    May 2011
    Susan George

    The world has had more than enough of the Washington Consensus. It’s time to impose an Istanbul Consensus based on common sense, low-cost solutions, public honesty and simple justice and give the people of the LDCs, at last, a chance.

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