It is an almost taken-for-granted idea that what we call the West is in relative decline. From an invincible West and a Europe controlling most of Asia or Africa in 1914, what remains today is a “de-Europeanized” configuration on a profoundly changed global chessboard. China and other powers have contributed to the design of…
Is ecology the world’s new totem? Eco-citizen responsibility and the ecological preaching broadcasted daily by the media seem to be melting into the great project of the Green New Deal, or even “green civilization”, displayed by the two great geopolitical powers of the moment. Virtually everyone is now turning their attention to this polysemous…
Dunia draws lessons from ten years of action-observation in contact with different socio-political and geo-cultural environments. The harsh and multipolar world calls for a new frame of reference for thought and action. Conceiving such a frame of reference implies an arduous and demanding effort of adaptation, in order to keep up with the shifting…
Dunia’s contribution to a transversal reading of systematized contents of the Forum. 1. Methodology The present analysis is based on scientific methods of qualitative investigation. Stage 1: the reports of each session generated a primary verbatim (2,300 statements for the whole forum), structured according to four analysis categories, namely 1. main points raised;…
A crucible of ideological aspirations, internationalism is above all part of the relations of power on the international scene, in other words, in the confrontation between States, the main strategic entities on the world chessboard, but also of the relations between the peoples whose influence has increased tenfold over the last three decades thanks…
François Soulard – Dunia Platform Michel Volle – economist, Iconomy Institute Introduction For thirty years, the digital revolution has been breaking down the walls that have somehow kept contemporary economy in balance with rights and social justice. From inequalities, predation and new forms of dependency on network intelligence to the contradictions between automation, employment and…
Two years have passed since the 2019 electoral crisis in Bolivia. On October 20, 2019, the Andean country plunged into a chaotic situation that brought Evo Morales’s presidency to an end, which had begun in 2005. Contrary to many opinions consolidated throughout the continent and abroad, that crisis did not originate in a coup…
“Rather than being a cause of the late twentieth-century crisis, the Internet appears to have been a consequence of the breakdown of hierarchical power.” – Niall Ferguson, The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook, 2019. “There will nevertheless be a fairly long interim during which the main intellectual advances…
Social forums were born in 2001 as a dissenting aspiration against a globalizing wind that had been unleashed in the early 1990s. Wrapped in State-building and the model of liberal democracy, neoliberalism and its renewed forms of domination appeared without rivals at world level to mold a particularly homogenizing liberal order. The “end of…
The Internet and the digital space have driven a fantastic leap into a new era of communicational confrontation. Apart from certain libertarian ideological bases associated with the initial shaping of the Internet, it is a fact that the freedom that governs this space for exchange has also enabled the rise of a new architecture…