A year is drawing to a close at the edge of the sixty centuries that separate us from the dawn of human history. A blink of an eye, if ever there was one, on which a retrospective view remains essential in order to discern the overall trends and look ahead. The last four years…
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…
There is nothing new in saying that the region has a particularly intense level of communicational and media confrontation, to a certain extent comparable to levels seen in war contexts. The slogan “territory at peace” proclaimed in 2011 by the representatives of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the Union…
Five months since the onset of the pandemic, the concert of Nations displays a sharper image on the world stage. Driver of economic and social recession, the pandemic is phenomenally accelerating the political times and appears to be covering up the past with the future. Previous trends were in full view. In October 2019,…
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has put the weak global architecture in check and points to the importance of the social. Human mobility, viral spread and vulnerabilities are three key forces, acting faster than the political and the cultural. The information and electronic communication ecosystems are closely intertwined with this commotion. What role do these play?…
The expansion of the Internet and electronic communications, as new global interdependence and infrastructure of industrial economies, is well established. Networks of information exchange, the Internet has also set up a global commons which, like other commons, is involved in a fierce strategic dispute. Russia plans to start its own network in 2021 and…
Let us summarize the red thread connecting various recent occurrences in Argentina and Brazil, occurrences that are only disconnected on the media surface. We are immersed in a significant process of change in the correlation of political forces pushing to reform the architecture of the State and the accumulation of wealth, a State that has…
Beyond its umbilical association with the vast global electronic territory, free software has established a solid home base, even an “adopted” homeland, in Latin America. Far from being a chauvinist derivation, this metaphor nevertheless proves to be realistic enough to illustrate the singular fertility that has developed over the last twenty years between the free…
As a result of the Anti-CFA Front’s initiative in Africa, on 11 February this year a series of actions will be undertaken in twenty-five countries and three continents to protest at financial colonialism and to debate new proposals. Could these be the seeds of an intercontinental front for a new financial and monetary system? Authors:…
By Arnaud Blin (Center for Global Policy and Governance Studies (New York), author of The History of Terrorism with Gérard Chaliand.) François Soulard (Forum for a New World Governance (Buenos Aires), contributor to the Dictionary of World Governance) After several weeks of uncertainty surrounding Donald Trump’s foreign policy, in the space of a few days…