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Protecting Europe from its paradoxes

European citizens are almost homogenously turning to governments that are promising more "security" and more "protection" from today's challenges and threats. European leaders' discourse has downgraded the commitment to growth, cohesion and convergence. Similarly, self-interest policies overrun the pledge to inclusiveness, deregulation, competition and competitiveness. A re-mix of sovereign-style power and ethno-economic identity make the new euro-conservatism entangle both the idea of progress as well the one of liberty and liberism. The new euro-conservatism appears primarily anti-reformists...

Resilience | Monday, 2 February 2009

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Millennium starts with negative returns and two major crashes

Since the blast of the "Internet bubble" in March 2000 (by September 10, 2001, the Nasdaq had declined roughly 34% for the year, while the S&P index had sunk 18%) a series of ‘Parmalat-style' and ‘Enron-style' defaults in diverse economic sectors have occurred in the US and the EU alike. Profits at U.S. banks declined from$35.2 to $5.8 billion (-83.5%) during the fourth quarter of 2007 versus the prior year, due to provisions for loan losses. As of August 2008 sub-prime-related and other credit losses or write downs by global financial institutions stood at about 500 billion dollars.

Challenges | Tuesday, 27 January 2009

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Multilateralism for an Age of Scarcity

Building international capacity for energy, food and climate securityResource scarcity issues – above all climate change and soaring prices for energy and food – are uniquely integrated. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the multilateral institutions and processes charged with managing them. This paper sets out a route map towards the more integrated and effective multilateralism needed for the transitions ahead.

Sustainable | Tuesday, 27 January 2009

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Towards a theory of influence for twenty-first-century foreign policy: public diplomacy

Global issues are diffuse and rest on the decisions and behaviour of millions, if not billions, of people. Governments must respond by changing the way they practise diplomacy, offer development assistance and deploy force. This means making the new public diplomacy a core foreign policy tool.

Commons | Tuesday, 27 January 2009

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Long-term historical performances are no more familiar: the lost decade

If you were fortunate enough to buy the S&P 500 at the very bottom in October 2002, your investment would be up 68%. Unfortunately but most likely, 99% of investors didn't buy at the bottom. Instead, investors probably worked their way into long positions in 2003 and 2004 once the market proved it could sustain a clear up trend. Below we highlight the returns of an investment in the S&P 500 if you bought at the start of each year and held until now. As shown, unless you bought at the start of 2003, you'd have gains of less than 20% in all instances. And buying at the start of 2007 and 2008 would have resulted in negative returns.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 February 2009 22:31
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