UN summit meetings: Multilateralism at a crossroads
The United Nations will be hosting six high-level plenary meetings - unprecedented even by its own standards - on the occasion of the 74th session of the General Assembly in late September.The meetings are being viewed primarily as an attempt at reviving multilateral diplomacy at a time when a rash...
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Globalisation in retreat
Globalisation is a phenomenon that has been accelerating since the early 1990s, but the term is so complex, it defies any simple definition. Yet globalisation is commonly understood as a process of intensification of world-wide interrelations leading to an increasing interdependence cutting across cultural, social, political and economic barriers. But...
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