I was extremely pleased to be included in the recent meeting of the Club of Rome in Vienna [15-17 April 2009] on “Concerted Strategies to meet the Environmental and Economic Challenges of the 21st Century” which, as its name indicates, brought together scientists and economists but also business executives and politicians. The Club of Rome has formed an alliance with GLOBE, an organisation m... Read more

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have declared the death of the Washington Consensus. However the G20 summit’s decision to entrust the most neoliberal institution of the IMF with overseeing the process suggests we have missed a precious opportunity for radically reforming the global economy.... Read more

Meses atrás la formidable maquinaria propagandística del imperio alimentaba la ilusión de que la reunión del G-20 en Londres le daría la estocada final a la crisis. Sin embargo, a medida que se acercaba la fecha comenzaron a oírse voces discordantes. Nicolas Sarkozy y Angela Merkel lanzaron baldes de agua fría sobre el inminente cónclave y el anfitrión, el “progresista” británico Gordon Brown,... Read more

El G-20 da un gran espectáculo reuniéndose para lidiar con la crisis económica global. Pero he aquí el problema de la cumbre de Londres del 2 de abril: que no es sino espectáculo. Y lo que el espectáculo viene a disimular es una profunda preocupación, un hondo miedo de la elite global, que no sabe realmente la dirección que está tomando la economía mundial y desconoce las medidas necesarias... Read more

El “Grupo de los Ocho” (G8) fue creado en 1975 –entonces como el G7– en un momento en el que el mundo se hallaba, como hoy, inmerso en una profunda crisis económica. Su principal objetivo era coordinar la política macroeconómica de los países ricos en tiempos de estanflación, así como forjar una estrategia común relativa a los países en vías de desarrollo, los cuales, a lo largo de aquellos... Read more

Japanese and Asian movements’ should learn from previous summits and reject attempts to salvage the discredited reputation of the rich nations and instead lead the struggle to make the Hokkaido Summit the final summit of the G8.... Read more

Trade, climate change, skyrocketing oil prices, and debt have been the topics of discussion in the parallel civil society events to the Group of Eight Summit, but the issue that has drawn the greatest attention is the Japanese authorities’ heavy handed approach to security for the official gathering.... Read more

Paper completed 30 August 2001 to be presented at the Conference on Reshaping Globalisation: Multilateral Dialogues and New Policy Initiatives Sponsored by the Central European University, a project of George Soros's Open Society Foundation Sesgo y términos de referencia Los editores pidieron que mi contribución a este importante número de Foreign Affairs en Español tratara de "temas fundam... Read more

For audio go to Democracy Now! In Japan, world leaders at the G8 summit have announced they would work toward cutting carbon emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050. The White House hailed the declaration as a major step forward, but environmental campaigners criticized the lack of a commitment to midterm targets. Global warming ties into other big themes, such as soaring food and fuel pric... Read more

After a dozen hours in the air, I’ve been parked for four hours in a series of airless rooms at Tokyo’s Narita airport where an acutely disorganized official dithers and rushes ineffectually from one office to another. First stop was a room with some Mexicans, probably suspected of drug running—they all seem to have been quickly vetted or at least aren’t present in the stage two room. After... Read more