An Article by George Monbiot, British writer and political activist, published at "The Guardian" on April 30, 2012
A one-sided justice sees weaker ... 
An article by Tiberio Graziani, President of IsAG – Institute for Advanced Studies in Geopolitics and Auxiliary Sciences, director of Geopolitica, J... 
An Article by Javier Solana, President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics, for El País, published at "The Guardian" on March 29... 
An Arcticle by Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor Emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, published at Outlookindia.com on May ... 
An Interview with Joseph Stiglitz, professor at Columbia University and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, published at U... 
A Note by Kamran Mofid, Founder of the NGO "Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative", published at his Blog on May 7, 2012
Voters in France an... 
Opening address by Founding President of the World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations" Vladimir Yakunin at the opening of the Plenary Meeting o... 
The second part of Interview with Walter Mignolo, William H. Wannamaker Professor and Director, Center for Global studies and the Humanities, Duke U... 
A Note by Kamran Mofid, Founder, Globalization for the Common Good Initiative, Member of the International Coordinating Committee of the WPF Dialogu... 
- Written by WPF Dialogue of Civilizations
- Published on 22 September 2011
Possible Futures book series edited by Craig Calhoun and Georgi DerluguianThe volumes of Possible Futures book series edited by Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian will be presented at the Rhodes Forum Ninth Annual Session on October 6 - 10, 2011
In 2008, the World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” convened a group of researchers and statesmen in Vienna to take stock of major global challenges. The magnitude of the global financial crisis was only just becoming clear, but the neoliberalism and market fundamentalism of the post-Cold War years had already taken a toll of their own.
Austrian Federal Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer opened the meeting with a call to make sure the urgent attention the financial crisis demanded was not just short-term and superficial but included consideration of deeper geopolitical issues and governance challenges facing the global community.
In this spirit, several of the researchers present envisioned a project to bring together the analyses of leading scholars from a range of different countries, assessing not only the financial crisis but shifts in relations among major powers, trends in political economy, and the possible futures these opened. The group sought insight into emerging issues; it did not indulge the fantasy that the future could be predicted in detail.
The World Public Forum, created to facilitate a dialogue of civilizations rather than a clash, saw value in bringing high quality research to bear on public issues and possible futures. It provided financial support to the project including opportunities for many of the researchers to gather at its annual meetings on the island of Rhodes. This initial support was crucial to inaugurating the present important series of books.
- Written by WPF Dialogue of Civilizations
- Published on 21 September 2011
UN World Economic and Social Survey 2011UN World Economic and Social Survey 2011 to be launched by Manuel Montes at Ninth Annual Rhodes Forum Session on October 6-10, 2011
UN report calls for major investments in new technologies in developing countries to build green economies. Need for immediate gains in energy efficiency, agricultural production and disaster reduction.
Major investments will be needed worldwide in the development and scaling up of clean energy technologies, sustainable farming and forestry techniques, climate-proofing of infrastructure, and in technologies reducing non-biodegradable waste production, according to The World Economic and Social Survey 2011: The Great Green Technological Transformation, published by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA).
The report says the technological overhaul will need to be on the scale of the first industrial revolution. Over the next 40 years, $1.9 trillion per year will be needed for incremental investments in green technologies. At least one-half, or $1.1 trillion per year, of the required investments will need to be made in developing countries to meet their rapidly increasing food and energy demands through the application of green technologies.
- Written by WPF Dialogue of Civilizations
- Published on 21 September 2011
Dialogistics by Ernest KochetovA book by Ernest Kochetov (in Russian with English, German, French and Italian abstracts) will be presented at the Rhodes Forum Ninth Annual Session on October 6 - 10, 2011
Scientific monograph by Ernest Kochetov “Dialogistics as a science of the destiny of the mankind and the world in the context of the global changes” summarizes the author’s scientific studies of the formation and development of a new direction in the sphere of humanitarian knowledge – dialogistics.
For the first time in the world and national scientific literature one of the fundamental questions of the contemporary world is brought up: the role and the place of the dialogue in the destinies of the mankind and the world during the epoch of global transformations. A general outline of the dialogistics is given as a science of basic theoretical and methodological foundations of the mutual and coordinated world outlook, of entering new horizons of the intercivilizational dialogue as a fundamental source of the world’s harmonization.
- Written by WPF Dialogue of Civilizations
- Published on 20 September 2011
Strategies of Economic DevelopmentA book by Vladimir Popov (in Russian with a preface by Jomo K.S.) will be presented at the Rhodes Forum Ninth Annual Session on October 6 - 10, 2011
The book by Vladimir Popov published in Russian elaborates National Development Strategies for the so-called transition economies of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and considers how Russia and other post-communist states could have benefited from the experiences of developing countries with alternative approaches to macroeconomics, growth, finance, trade, industrial policy (investment and technology promotion), state owned enterprise (SOE) reform and social policy. It is also argued that lessons of international significance can be derived from the Russian transition experience, which in many senses became the extreme experiment with wide scale deregulation, privatization, government downsizing and abrupt opening up a previously closed economy.
On the cover – the fragment of composition by Diego Rivera “Man at the crossroads” created in 1933 for the Rockefeller Center in New York.
Higher School of Economics Publishing House, Moscow, 2011
(http://id.hse.ru/index.php?page=novinki173)
(http://http-server.carleton.ca/~vpopov/Books.html)
