20 junio, 2022
por Felipe Sahagún
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Annual Council Meeting 2022 – Zeitenwende for Europe: Building a new global order in times of unpeace
Just days ahead of the G7, EU and NATO summits, ECFR’s Council Members – Europe’s leading decision-makers, opinion-shapers, and public intellectuals – gathered on 19-20 June in Berlin for the ECFR Annual Council Meeting
June 19, 2022
19 junio, 2022
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Fake news spreads six times faster than facts on social media. But how easy is it to identify and refute disinformation? pic.twitter.com/nmMkt54EMz
— DW News (@dwnews) June 19, 2022
19 junio, 2022
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ECONOMISTS, STATISTICIANS and other experts know how to count all sorts of things: unemployment, mortality rates and the size of every country’s economy. They even counted the number of trees in the Sahara Desert. But it remains surprisingly hard to find statistics on one of the most important things: how people feel. That has caused leaders to miss a disturbing trend: the global rise of unhappiness.
Gallup, the analytics firm, first began tracking global unhappiness in 2006. Negative emotions—the aggregate of stress, sadness, anger, worry and physical pain—reached a record high last year. This may not be surprising. The world is suffering from a large European conflict (in addition to other ongoing wars), inflation and the consequences of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. But the global rise in unhappiness started long before most of those issues made headlines. In fact, unhappiness has been increasing for a decade. Continue leyendo →
19 junio, 2022
por Felipe Sahagún
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The cost of Putin’s war (Ian Bremmer)
The Economist,
he outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine remains in doubt. But there is no question that Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a large-scale invasion is one of the worst strategic decisions any leader of a powerful country has made in decades. There is no plausible outcome in Ukraine that won’t leave Mr Putin and Russia far worse off than before February 24th, when the war began.
Mr Putin has cost his country the lives of thousands of young soldiers, some of them conscripts. He claims that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people,” but his war has given Ukraine a stronger sense of national identity than it’s ever had before and transformed it into Russia’s bitter enemy.
He has shown the world that his army is ineffectual, and that billions of dollars spent on modernising Russia’s military has been wasted. He has given NATO a sense of unity and purpose it hasn’t had in decades and non-members like Finland and Sweden new reasons to join. His actions have driven members including Germany to boost defence spending.
Others have dispatched troops close to Russia’s border. Mr Putin has convinced Europe that it must stop buying Russia’s most valuable exports. He has brought sanctions and export controls on his country that will inflict generational damage. For Europe and America he has crossed the Rubicon. Most grievously, he failed to prepare the Russian public for the true human, financial and material costs of his “special military operation.”
18 junio, 2022
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Al Jazeera Centre for Studies and Al Jazeera Mubasher are organising a webinar under the title, “Africa: Challenges in a Changing World,” set to take place on Wednesday and Thursday, 29 and 30 June 2022 with the participation of a select group of researchers and experts specialising in African affairs.
Over two days, the webinar will discuss the political and economic challenges African countries face – like military coups that have increased in recent years, causing instability in several countries, and the economic implications of the global coronavirus pandemic and the Russian war on Ukraine as well as chronic crises that the continent has been suffering from such as corruption, border disputes, the spread of armed groups, and the inability to invest in the vast natural and human resources it has. Moreover, the webinar will discuss the frantic international competition over Africa and the opportunities and challenges it could lead to.
The webinar will conclude with a discussion about the reality and prospects of Arab-African relations and how they can be strengthened.
The webinar will be broadcast on Al Jazeera Mubasher and live-streamed on AJCS’s social media platforms here
18 junio, 2022
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