Focus on the Global South International Course 2008
“Globalization and Social Transformation”
November 3 - 21
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand
Application Deadline: Sept. 15, 2008
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Rock against the Round 2008
Musicians against the WTO
July 25, 2008; 8 pm
Mogwai, Cubao X
Metro Manila Philippines
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Climate Justice Conference
12-14 July 2008
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Thailand
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PEOPLES' GLOBAL ACTION ON MIGRATION, DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS
22-30 October 2008
Manila Philippines
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Peace and Security -
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by Walden Bello*
(This essay originally appeared as the author’s commentary in Foreign Policy in Focus, Sept. 5, 2008.)
Despite the glitter that surrounded both the Olympics in Beijing and the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the messages coming to Asia from the two events were very different.
From Beijing, the message was, to put it in the words of one pundit, China has had a few bad centuries but is back on its feet. From Denver, the word was that the world’s most powerful country has been on a desperate decade-long downspin that can only get worse if the Republicans keep the White House.
For people in this part of the world, the weakening of US power is most evident elsewhere: in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, where Washington is bogged down in unending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; in Latin America, where the rebellion against neoliberalism and US meddling is in full swing; and, most recently, in Central Asia, where Washington and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have been taught a painful lesson in overextension in Georgia.
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Alternative Regionalism
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MANILA, Philippines - A group of civil society organizations have expressed disappointment over the "non-mention" of migrant labor issues in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Charter.
Asked to comment on the charter during ratification hearings by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Thursday, the Solidarity for Asian Peoples ' Advocacies (Sapa) Working Group and of the Philippine Working Group on Asean also pointed to a "limited reference" to gender and women's rights, internal conflicts, asylum seekers, and indigenous peoples.
"Missing elements (in the charter) include the non-mention of migrant labor which makes up a substantial portion of labor flows in the region," said Jenina Joy Chavez, who spoke on behalf of the working groups.
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We are happy to announce the availability of Focus on the Philippines (FOP) for the month of August.
What's Inside FOP?
- PERSPECTIVE: The US and the Bangsamoro Struggle: Selfish-Determination vs Self-Determination by Herbert Docena
- SOCIO ECONOMIC MONITOR: Poverty in the ARMM by Aya Fabros and Mary Ann Manahan
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 The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a regional mechanism, which
was created in 2001 and consists of the following:
People's Republic of China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and
Uzbekistan. It was inspired by the need to solve the border disputes lingering between the Soviet Union's successor states and China in the wake of the end of the Cold War. Originally a Chinese initiative, taken after resolving their border problems with Central Asia and Russia, it was also profitable for the Central Asian States, which were lacking in consistency, stability and resources in the midnineties and struggling to establish multilateral and bilateral relations beyond the region. It was also designed as a platform to balance the role of the United States in the Central Asian region.
Main findings of this paper :
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The SCO has been able to meet with its initial objective to establish
geopolitical multipolarity in Central Asia and check the US advance into
the region.
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It is a reflection of the emerging multi-polar world.
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Its increasingly acquiring strength is suggestive of becoming a major political force of the Eurasian region.
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The SCO will play a vital role in ensuring international security.
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ENFOQUE SOBRE COMERCIO
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En esta edición de Enfoque sobre Comercio, Jayati Ghosh y CP Chandrasekhar analizan la crisis financiera que atraviesan Estados Unidos y Europa, y se preguntan si esta no será la antesala de una nueva era de regulación del mercado e intervención del Estado, y una oportunidad para que los países en desarrollo reevalúen sus estrategias económicas.
¿ESTAMOS EN CAMINO DE UNA ESTANFLACIÓN MUNDIAL?
Jayati Ghosh
RECOSTADOS AL ESTADO
C. P. Chandrasekhar
LA GRAN DESINTEGRACIÓN
Jayati Ghosh
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Esta edición de Enfoque sobre Comercio está disponible para descargar en la página www.redes.org.uy en 4 formatos: OpenOffice.org (.sxw y .odt), PDF y HTML. Para suscribirse o dejar de estar suscrito, dirigirse a
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Consultar ediciones anteriores en www.redes.org.uy
También puedes descargar el original en inglés, Focus on Trade, directamente en:
http://www.focusweb.org/focus-on-trade-number-139-april-2008.html
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WTO
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By Walden Bello and Mary Lou Malig*
Like
the good Count of Transylvania, the so-called Doha Round of trade negotiations
of the World Trade Organization collapsed twice--the first time during the
Cancun Ministerial Meeting in September 2003, the second during the so-called
Group of Four meeting in Potsdam in June 2007--only to come back from the
dead. But has the silver stake
that will render Doha truly and really dead finally been driven through its
heart by the unraveling of the most recent “mini-ministerial” gathering in
Geneva?
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We are happy to announce the availability of the Focus on the Philippines for the Month of July.
- Eight-Point Memo to Address the Economic Crisis
by Herbert Docena and Jenina Joy Chavez
- PERSPECTIVE: Goebbel's Disciple
by Walden Bello
- PHOTO OF THE MONTH: Women on Reproductive Health
by Aya Fabros
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DEVELOPMENT BRIEF: Let them Eat 'Spin': National Social Welfare Program, Noah's Ark, and so-called Strategic Responses to the National Crisis
by Aya Fabros
- SOCIO ECONOMIC MONITOR: Research Shows Arroyo Administration Failing to Meet Own Targets
by Julie de los Reyes
- POLITICAL ROUND UP: Politicizing the Bureaucracy, Recycling Political Allies
by Mary Ann Manahan
- POLITICAL ROUND UP: Gloria's 8th SONA and the ghosts of past controversies
by Joseph Purugganan
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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ASEAN People's Forum |
13-15 December 2008
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
The ASEAN People's Forum is a People-to People platform to be held prior to the 14th ASEAN Summit in Bangkok. Civil society organizations and social movements from all ASEAN countries are invited to join the forum to discuss issues confronting peoples in the region and to articulate and strategize around people's aspirations for ASEAN and the ASEAN people.
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