Helmut Sorge
| Posted : April 16, 2019
So much hope: Expectations, anticipation, and promises. So many emotions: Excitement, sentiment, and joy. Mild winds caressing leaves of palm trees, moving in the stimulating rhythm of rumba, possibly salsa. The dancing bodies in harmony with the Caribbean mood. Happiness despite misery. Laughter overwhelming fear. Barack Obama visiting Cuba. Rain and tears unite, pomp unmatched by the Pope visiting the island some years earlier, enthusiasm pure. An Afro-American President is willing to end the Cold War.
Aleksandra Chmielewska
| Posted : April 15, 2019
The author is an alumna of the 2018 Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders program
The success of a Spanish far right party, Vox, wining 12 seats as a result of the regional elections in Andalucía, made the headlines in December 2018. The triumph of Vox was even more remarkable, as the party has gained 395.879 votes, in comparison to 18.017 received in 2015 elections. Marie Le Pen and Geert Wilders, leaders of other European far right parties rushed to congratulate Santiago Abascal, one of the founder and current leader of Vox. Since the end of dictatorship of Franco in 1975, far right political parties and movements did not have a significant public support. What has therefore led to such an exponential growth?
Tayeb Ghazi
| Posted : April 10, 2019
Africa is experiencing a demographic boom, so as its population is expected to double by 2050 to reach 2.8 billion. The growth in Africa’s working-age population will be inevitable. The youth population will also grow to make of Africa the continent of youth ‘par excellence’, so as it will hold the largest number of young people in the globe.
Nchimunya Hamukoma
| Posted : April 09, 2019
The author is an alumnus of the 2018 Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders program
On a Saturday evening in March at an upscale gallery in Johannesburg’s CBD, the lights went out. A child in the crowd yelped in shock, but most of the adults let out a gentle sigh of resignation. An attendant came by soon after to assure that it wasn’t load shedding and that the power would be reconnected shortly, but we had become inured to the darkness and the idea that electricity wasn’t something we could rely on.
Otaviano Canuto
| Posted : April 05, 2019
Next week, the 2019 Spring Meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank will take place in Washington, in this 75th year since the birth of the two institutions. Christine Lagarde, the IMF's managing director, speaking on Tuesday at the US Chamber of Commerce, offered an appetizer about the macroeconomic projections to be released.
Uri Dadush
| Posted : April 04, 2019
Can a G7, dominated by developing nations, provide the impulse to global governance as did the old G7? The answer is no.
What a difference ten years can make. It was nearly ten years ago when, in a paper written with Benn Stancil and titled “The World Order in 2050,” he and I predicted that by 2030 — in 11 years from now — five of the seven largest economies of the world would be drawn from the ranks of developing countries as defined by the World Bank at the time of our writing.
Hamza Rkha Chaham
| Posted : April 03, 2019
The author is an alumnus of the 2018 Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders program
Arable land per capita availability has been steadily decreasing over the last decades, from 0.5 hectare per capita in 1945 to 0.2 hectares per capita in 2016. Worldwide farmers have been, more or less, addressing the intensification challenge by incorporating new technologies, products, and techniques into their farming systems. The intensification challenge also implied a consolidation of the farming systems. Larger and better equipped farms were indeed able to better amortize the adaptation costs, enjoy higher bargaining power among the value chain, driving yield revolutions in many regions.
Helmut Sorge
| Posted : April 02, 2019
Donald Trump finally has met a strongman he does not like. After making friends with authoritarian figures around the world, in Beijing, Budapest and Moscow, Ankara, Riyadh, Cairo and Manila or Jerusalem .He even fell in love with Kim Jong un, the dictator in North Korea, who’ s self righteousness borders the pathological narcissism of Donald Trump, who doesn’t mind that his love had his uncle executed and his brother poisoned. Trump is not wavering in the defense of Mohamed bin Salman , the crown prince of Saudi Arabia either, who has been accused that he at least tolerated the murder of the “Washington Post” columnist Jamal Kashoggi. Trump just said about the accusations :” May be he did, may be he didn’t.”. The CIA, his spies, came to a different conclusion? So what ? The President did not answer Congress about his knowledge of the case, as he is obliged by law. End of story.
Jean Zaganiaris, Enseignant chercheur (HDR sociologie), EGE Rabat, UM6P.
| Posted : April 01, 2019
Lundi 25 mars 2019, à la Maison Blanche, Donald Trump a signé un décret reconnaissant officiellement la souveraineté d'Israël sur le plateau du Golan, soutenant le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu. Quelles seront les conséquences de ce revirement de la diplomatie américaine au Moyen-Orient ? Pendant que les deux chefs d’Etat posaient devant les photographes, des avions de chasse israéliens bombardaient Gaza, en représailles des tirs de roquette palestiniens sur Tel Aviv. Le samedi 23 mars, la communauté druze du Golan a manifesté contre l’intention du président américain de reconnaître la souveraineté d’Israël sur ces territoires, conquis militairement en 1967 et annexés en 1981, et a affiché son appartenance à la Syrie. Si l’on a l’impression que ces événements font exclusivement partie d’une escalade de la violence située au cœur du présent, on ne peut, toutefois, pas comprendre leurs logiques intrinsèques sans les situer sur le temps long. C’est dans ce cadre que s’inscrit la démarche de Michel Boyer, professeur en classes préparatoires, évoquant dans son ouvrage Tragique Orient méditerranéen la présence militaire française au Liban au cours du XIXème siècle.
Ahmed Rachid El-Khattabi
| Posted : March 22, 2019
The author of this blog, Ahmed Rachid El Khattabi, is an alumnus of the 2018 Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders program
Rapid urbanization and climate change are two of the biggest challenges for cities. As much of the world is urbanizing, cities are growing thirstier, constantly seeking out new water supplies to keep up with demand. These challenges are especially significant for many growing cities that, due to historical reasons, are not located near water resources. Climate change is further complicating the pressures of urbanization by increasing uncertainty in the renewability of water resources. These two factors together have meant that the costs of securing water resources are rising.
