07/10/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Indias illusory nuclear gains
This is the first of a two-part series on Indias nuclear weaponization.
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03/02/2014 | En Parrilla
Concerns of G-20 leadership
Australia recently completed the first year of its two-year term on the United Nations Security Council. Meanwhile, on Dec. 1, Australia assumed the presidency of the Group of 20, which will meet in Brisbane this year. As in the difference between form and class, Australiafs membership on the Security Council is temporary while that on the G-20 is permanent.
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07/03/2013 | En Parrilla
Japan and Australia: natural allies in the changing Pacific
Does the U.S. pivot to the Pacific represent a necessary rebalancing, overbalancing or counter-balancing against Chinas growing wealth, power and assertiveness? Few third countries have a bigger stake in the correct answer to this critical question than Australia and Japan.
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22/05/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Australia and the Security Council
This autumn in New York, Australia will be contesting for one of the elected seats on the U.N. Security Council. Some domestic critics ask why bother with the United Nations? Some international critics ask why waste a vote on Australia? Both are wrong.
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29/10/2011 | En Profundidad
Global crises of democracy
In 2000, at the first U.N. millennium meeting in Tokyo, Gallup presented interesting results of a global public opinion survey. Most people, even in the mature Western democracies, believed their government was failing to represent them refusing to heed their voices, looking after their own and corporate interests rather than defending the common interest of the citizens collectively.
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19/07/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mumbai attack a new cause to take offense
Three serial blasts in 12 minutes tore through India's commercial capital Mumbai last Wednesday evening, leaving 21 dead and over 140 injured.
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19/07/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mumbai attack a new cause to take offense
Three serial blasts in 12 minutes tore through India's commercial capital Mumbai last Wednesday evening, leaving 21 dead and over 140 injured.
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24/05/2011 | Sociedad
India's stirring middle class
India is on the move, with millions climbing into middle class status and a growing pool of super-rich billionaires. Yet it also has more poor, hungry and illiterate people than any other country in the world; access to safe water and sanitation remains a pipedream for most people and disease is endemic; power, transportation and communications infrastructure are risible; and life continues to be nasty, brutish and short for millions.
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24/05/2011 | Sociedad
India's stirring middle class
India is on the move, with millions climbing into middle class status and a growing pool of super-rich billionaires. Yet it also has more poor, hungry and illiterate people than any other country in the world; access to safe water and sanitation remains a pipedream for most people and disease is endemic; power, transportation and communications infrastructure are risible; and life continues to be nasty, brutish and short for millions.
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10/04/2011 | High Tech
Realigned values help global order evolve
On March 17, Security Council Resolution 1973 authorized the use of "all necessary measures," short of an invasion and occupation, "to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas": the first United Nations-sanctioned combat operations since the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
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