Publicaciones etiquetadas como Geopolítica
Mega-regiones de Europa (mapa de The Creative Class Group). En la Península Ibérica: Madrid, Barcelona-Lyon y Lisboa (incluyendo la zona costera de Galicia)
Political Ecuador: Considering the Tijuana-San Diego border as a point of departure, the Political Equator traces an imaginary line along the US–Mexico border and extends it directly across a world atlas, forming a corridor of global conflict between the 30 and 36 degrees North Parallel. Along this imaginary border encircling the globe lie some of the world’s most contested thresholds.
Abstract. News is increasingly being produced and consumed online, supplanting print and broadcast to represent nearly half of the news monitored across the world today by Western intelligence agencies. Recent literature has suggested that computational analysis of large text archives can yield novel insights to the functioning of society, including predicting future economic events. Applying tone and geographic analysis to a 30–year worldwide news archive, global news tone is found to have forecasted the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, including the removal of Egyptian President Mubarak, predicted the stability of Saudi Arabia (at least through May 2011), estimated Osama Bin Laden’s likely hiding place as a 200–kilometer radius in Northern Pakistan that includes Abbotabad, and offered a new look at the world’s cultural affiliations. Along the way, common assertions about the news, such as “news is becoming more negative” and “American news portrays a U.S.–centric view of the world” are found to have merit.
The timing of the November 2010 inaugural meeting of the Bad Ragaz Group could not have been more propitious. As signs of economic recovery clashed with the realities of the Irish bailout and renewed concerns about additional financial contagion in the eurozone, the meeting’s theme—”What’s Next for Europe?”—was already on the minds of the senior business executives, economists, policymakers and thought leaders who gathered at Switzerland’s Bad Ragaz resort for two days of discussions. Forty European executives—current and next-generation leaders representing multiple industries and sectors from 12 countries—gathered at the Swiss alpine resort of Bad Ragaz in November 2010 to ponder Europe’s future challenges and opportunities. Discussions by these members of the Bad Ragaz Group (BRG) centered on the risks and opportunities associated with integration and globalization during these challenging geopolitical and economic times.1Specifically, members discussed the outlook for the European economy, the impact of social media, Europe’s uncertain energy prospects, and the future of the euro. This paper summarizes the discussions.
