Gouvernance

Lors de son lancement il y a dix ans, le programme allemand Industrie 4.0 promettait une quatrième révolution industrielle qui changerait notre façon de travailler. Sa mise en œuvre répond à des impératifs capitalistes très anciens : utiliser des technologies permettant d’économiser du travail non pas pour réduire la charge de travail, mais pour soumettre les employés à une discipline de travail encore plus stricte.

Sous la bannière de la « souveraineté numérique », une UE divisée à l’intérieur s’apprête à s’attaquer à « America First » et au programme chinois de « double circulation ».

Gen. Pervez Musharraf seized power in Pakistan eight years ago, claiming that the army had to step in to save the country from corrupt and incompetent politicians. Since then, he has run both the army and the government himself, with the connivance of a rubber-stamp Parliament put in place through rigged elections. His rule has proved to be a dismal failure, creating more problems than those it set out to solve.

La lutte pour le contrôle des ressources minières en République démocratique du Congo (RDC) n’est pas étrangère aux nombreux conflits armés qui secouent ce pays d’Afrique centrale depuis la chute du régime Mobutu. Entre 1998 et 2004, le nombre de morts reliés aux conflits et à leurs conséquences est estimé à quatre millions d’individus, essentiellement des civils, d’après une étude récente publiée dans la revue The Lancet. Alors que les premières élections démocratiques sont prévues pour juin prochain, une réflexion sur la gouvernance et le secteur minier congolais s’impose.

The Palestinian Territories entered a period of uncertainty following the formation of the Hamas Cabinet? Will a partisan male- dominated government form a key step toward women’s exclusion from the political arena?

As I was scanning the latest documents describing WTO negotiations on its services agreement (the GATS - the General Agreement on Trade in Services) I came across a quote that reinforced for me how much corporations have come to dominate our political life.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the major international organizations, first and foremost among them International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, have been lavishing upon their member countries recommendations for "good governance". However, the definitions of this term and, along with them, its substance, have varied noticeably from one institution to another, preventing the formulation of a precise legal definition - particularly since governance can also be global, corporate…

After nearly six months in office President Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva is encountering opposition from within his own party while he stakes out foreign policy positions that challenge the Bush administration. As Emir Sader, a political analyst at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, proclaims: "The government has adopted a fairly traditional economic approach that arouses the ire of some in Lula’s Workers Party, while he is using Mercosur, the South American trade bloc, to confront the Bush administrations’ efforts to impose its commercial agenda on the region."

The US-lead invasion and occupation of Iraq is illegal. In 1946, the Nuremberg Tribunal judged that "to initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." Consequently, we demand an immediate end to the illegal occupation of Iraq by the United States and the United Kingdom and the immediate withdrawal and removal of all foreign troops, military advisers and representatives, military equipment and armaments.

The following is the text of John Brady Kiesling’s letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. Mr. Kiesling is a career diplomat who has served in United States embassies from Tel Aviv to Casablanca to Yerevan.

There is a building global consensus that the Iraqi people have suffered long enough under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and that his regime needs to be dismantled. It’s the one place where the hawks and the doves agree. The question is not whether the regime will survive, but how the transition will come about and who will be leading it.

The surprising mid-June by-election results in Quebec indicate that Quebecers, not happy with the provincial political scene, are looking for change. Mario Dumont and the ADQ have used this sentiment as a springboard, presenting themselves as the party of new ideas and solutions. But are the ideas really new, and what exactly are the solutions?