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Although the Gorbachev conference will undoubtedly be a fairly ridiculous event, however, the program is in a way interesting.
What is so striking about the agenda for Gorbachev's conference is that much of it was written as if the last 20 years have never happened.
This nostalgia for the past is not unique to Mr. Gorbachev and his conference organizers.
The current issue of the intellectual magazine Deadalus not only contains an essay entitled "We live in an age of transition" by none other than that icon of the Cold War, Henry Kissinger (does he realize that he has become a caricature of himself?), but actually reprints the minutes of a 1965 conference on global order.
If the Gorbachev conference -- or any of a dozen other high-level conferences whose programs I have seen but to which I either was not invited or had the good sense to decline -- is an indicator, hardly anyone even wants to think about the real issues -- like how to maintain the necessary institutions of world order, from international policing to more or less free trade, when economic power is no longer restricted to a handful of wealthy nations.
Unfortunately, with Russia and China obstructing meaningful United Nations action, the “Friends of Syria” conference in Tunisia this February offered no coherent way out of the conflict.
I had occasion to encounter a typical ideologue of this type recently at an academic conference organized by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College in the United States.
First of all, if one is going to organize a conference on right-wing populism, it is surely useful to hear what a right-wing populist actually has to say.
I like to think that Jongen left the Bard conference politely discredited.
The Nice conference failed because the EU's national leaders could not, or would not, reach beyond their immediate national interests to take a pan-European perspective.
The following interview is adapted from a press conference held in Udine, Italy, on that occasion.
Palestine’s House DividedPresident George W. Bush’s call for a new peace conference for Israel, Palestine, and neighboring states that back a two-state solution is a welcome, if very tardy, development.
Donors will convene this November in Brussels at a conference that could have a huge impact on the scope of the Fund.
But the original Bretton Woods framework was not built in a day; indeed, the 1944 conference was preceded by two and a half years of preparatory negotiations, which is probably the minimum needed to decide such weighty issues.
In fact, the resolution calls on the participants at a conference of donors, to take place in London at the end of January, “to take into consideration the proposal of licensed production of opium for medical purposes, as already granted to a number of countries.”
Governments, international organizations and individuals that participate in the London conference must not dismiss the call made by the European Parliament, for it offers a far more workable strategy to promote Afghanistan’s future than the current counter-narcotics policies permit.
When I visited Tripoli in March 2010 for a “national reconciliation” conference, the conflicting statements given by Saif al-Islam and security officials surprised me.
The Milken conference is the US equivalent of Davos, but with a more serious business focus and the strong US government representation that Davos has never achieved.
It was clear from the Milken conference that Trump will not deliver most of his domestic agenda.
As a top Senate staffer told the Milken conference, Walmart and other retailers “were extremely effective at educating our members” about the political costs of any new taxes on US imports.
This month, thousands gathered for the UN’s climate change conference in Bonn, Germany, to ratchet up global ambition in the fight against climate change.
As the chaos at the climate-change conference in Copenhagen last December amply demonstrated, both the number of members around the table and the differences between them – even within the group of emerging countries – do not bode well for the future.
The Compact was supposed to be adopted at an inter-governmental conference in Marrakesh earlier this month.
But as the conference approached, a growing number of countries, led by the US, complained that the Compact enabled the imposition of binding obligations in the future, thus infringing on their sovereignty.
Although the US cannot officially renounce the Paris accord until 2020, Trump’s move hampered the next phase of the process: agreement, at the climate conference in Katowice, on specific rules for implementation and monitoring.
I was invited to address this issue at a recent conference in Santa Barbara, California.
Rather than attending a Putin-led conference and providing the Kremlin with a propaganda coup ahead of parliamentary elections – Juncker should place EU priorities at the forefront.
Rethinking the Population TabooPRINCETON – At a press conference during last month’s G20 summit in Hamburg, a journalist from the Ivory Coast asked French President Emmanuel Macron why the world’s rich countries have not developed a plan to assist Africa in overcoming its problems, as the United States’ Marshall Plan had aided Europe after World War II.
The conference adopted a Programme of Action that rejected a demographically driven approach to population policies, and instead focused on meeting the reproductive-health needs of individuals, especially women.
Since the Cairo conference, such proposals have been portrayed as colonialist and patriarchal, if not racist.
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