Sustainability and Management Competence
Steven Cohen The Challenges of Sustainability In the past several decades, we have developed what I sometimes call a brain-based economy. The high value added elements of modern economic life involve analytic concepts, technological development, mathematical models, communications and creativity. We…
Ukraine and the Crisis of International Law
Jeffrey Sachs International law itself is at a crossroads. The US, Russia, the EU, and NATO cite it when it is to their advantage and disregard it when they deem it a nuisance. Again, this is not to justify Russia’s unacceptable actions; rather, it is to add them to the sequence of actions contrary …
Good Governance as a Post-2015 Millennium Development Goal
Daniel F. Runde, Conor M. Savoy The World Bank noted, in a 1989 report, that “underlying the litany of Africa’s development problems is a crisis of governance.” Although matters have improved since 1989, lower debt and more democracies for example, good governance is still elusive and a major impedi…
France and the Balkans in the New Age
CIRSD Program Director, Nikola Jovanović discusses French policies during the Cold War and beyond, the relationship of the Fifth Republic with Germany and how all these affected developments in the European Union, the European Continent and regions that some consider to be on its periphery. “Madelei…
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…