During the Suez Canal crisis in 1956, the at the time American president Dwight Eisenhower withdrew his support from France and England, who wanted to invade Egypt in response to …
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An Unhappy New World
Anguish spreads through the globalized world, and especially through its once hegemonic centers. Capitalist globalization itself has generated problems that not even the economic management or the political management are …
Read More »Paradigms that condition the course of global economy
This article highlights four emerging paradigms that carry significant weight on the course of global economy: (i) the fragmentation and geographical dispersion of the capitalist production process, (ii) the universalization …
Read More »Springtime for Germany and Winter in Spain
While Southern Europe is in a depression and subject to political wild cards, Germany (and Northern Europe) are complacent. Germany has it both ways because it sustained its own growth …
Read More »Wither Europe? Â A still distant dream
E pluribus unum. To make one out of many is the challenge of every nation that wants to call itself a Union. In North America, the Union was forged by …
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