Who Will Lead the UN Next? Transparency, Gender, and Geopolitics

Few weeks ago, I gained the chance of reading the UN Security Council resolution 2468 of 30 April on MINURSO , and was surprised by the frequently repeated expression of “Morocco, the Frente Polisario, Algeria, and Mauritania”, instead of the previous “all parties and neighbours”. Besides, it was reported that the US representative twice referred to “Morocco, the Frente Polisario, Algeria, and Mauritania” in his short remark in the Security Council meeting1. Shortly after that, I co ...

Experts du Nord et du Sud ont discuté de ce thème le 10 avril à Paris, lors de la 7ème édition de ses Dialogues stratégiques entre le Policy Center for the New South et le Centre HEC de géopolitique. La politique étrangère de Donald Trump, centrée sur la devise « America First », répond surtout à des motivations de politique intérieure, a rappelé Pascal Chaigneau, directeur du Centre HEC de Géopolitique. Elle vise à sa réélection pour un second mandat, en posant les questions de re ...

À travers cette publication conjointe, le Centre HEC de Géopolitique et le Policy Center for the New South ont souhaité présenter seize papiers discutés et enrichis au cours de la sixième édition des Dialogues Stratégiques qui s’est tenue le 3 octobre 2018. Cette rencontre avait choisi d’analyser l’espace politique et les enjeux géostratégiques de notre monde contemporain en se focalisant sur deux sujets d’actualité internationale : les crises et sorties de crises en Amérique l ...

If you haven't read Part 1, click here. Stand By For the Maintenance of Public Order Michael Ryan, chairman of the Independent Film and TV Alliance considers Brexit “a major blow to the UK film and TV industry,” since European funds, between 2007 and 2015 nearly 145 million dollars, will not be available anymore. The Sadler’s Wells Theatre, a major classical dance house in London, received, over the past five years, about 550 000 dollars from Brussels, money used for collaborative ...

To read Part II of the blog, click here “We Have No Eternal Allies” Philip Alston was confronted with a special assignment. To write a report for the United Nations on poverty in the world’s fifth economic power in the world, a nation considered as a beacon of democracy, a Kingdom represented by a queen, not only adored by readers of glossy gossip magazines, but also by progressives and left wing intellectuals, even those who believe royalty is a waste of money, and their wealth a ...