From Kosovo to Crimea
Miguel Ángel Moratinos Any diplomacy manual always recommends resorting to History and Geography as complementary sciences to extract a suitable diagnosis and thereby be capable of applying efficient policies to solve possible conflicts. However, it seems like nowadays everyone has turned deaf ears …
Global Cooperation in the Age of Sustainable Development
Vuk Jeremić, Jeffrey Sachs Achieving sustainable development will be the overriding strategic challenge of this generation. Throughout most of history, the tasks of integrating economic development, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability were local or regional. In the 21st century, howev…
The Role of Government in the Transition to a Sustainable Economy
Steven Cohen The private sector cannot make the transition from a waste-based economy to a renewable one by itself. This transition can only happen if we can create a public-private partnership. This is nothing new; we’ve been through this before. The transformation from an agrarian economy to an in…
A Centenary and 194 Stages in 2004
Miguel Ángel Moratinos I called the year 2013 a year of transition, and so it has been. Since the fall of Lehman Brothers five years ago, Europeans, and mostly the countries in the South, have been suffering an institutional and economical crisis in the shape of a “w”, and we keep clinging to the pr…
The Age of Sustainable Development
Jeffrey Sachs NEW YORK – A half-century ago, John F. Kennedy observed that, “man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.” Those words speak to us today with special urgency. Our generation can indeed end the ancient scourge of extreme po…
Ecocide – the genocide of the 21st century? Eastern European perspective
Every European lawyer is familiar with the term “ genocide ”, introduced in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent. The term was coined based on his earlier concepts of “ barbarity ” and “ vandalism ” , in reaction to the impunity of Ottoman perpetrators of the 1915-1917 Armenian …