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Imagine the world around 1500. It was a polycentric and non-capitalist world. There were many civilizations from China to Sub-Saharan Africa, but none of them dominated the other. There was a radical change in global history that we can summarize in two points: the emergence of the Atlantic commercial circuit and the fact that the [...]

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On April 29, 2009 I received, as many others, a standard “call for paper.” This one called my attention: “World Universities Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 9-11, 2009, Call for Papers.”
It called my attention for two reasons. The first I explain here is that I saw it coming: the struggle of the twenty-first century will be [...]

En la primera semana de abril, los G20 se reunirán en Londres para debatir y actuar sobre el futuro del capitalismo.
Desde hace más de un año los medios de comunicación y el clima generado por la catástrofe de Wall Street (a poco tiempo de la catástrofe de Iraq y la catástrofe del huracán Katrina), [...]

El período de gobierno del presidente George W. Bush se abrió con un estado de emergencia provocado, o co-ayudado, por los dos aviones que se estrellaron en las Torres Gemelas. El acontecimiento dió ocasión al gobierno de Bush para encender la mecha del patriotismo, declarar la guerra contra el terrorismo y urgir al congreso el [...]

When John McCain referred to Barack Obama as “that one”was not a simple gaff, but a deeply rooted racial prejudice and a deeply rooted blockage in his understanding. One could guess that when Barack Obama says “John doesn’t get it”, the meaning of his indictment may be wider than perhaps Obama himself intended. And if [...]

The series of events that unfolded in Sucre, Bolivia, since May 24 have not received much attention by the international press; and in some cases, the report contributed to obscure the facts. The events invite us, all of us, to think about racism and human rights; who are the perpetrators, who are the victims, what [...]

When noted Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington published his controversial article, “The Hispanic Challenge,” in Foreign Policy no one could have thought of Alberto Gonzáles. Huntington’s article was published on February 24, 2004. And President George Bush announced on November 11 of that same year that Gonzáles was his choice to replace [...]

I learned to think this way in the early 90s when Carlos Saúl Menem was elected president of Argentina. I was in one of Buenos Aires’s well known book-stores, Librería Gandhi, talking with an admired friend, el Negro Tula, going back to the exciting university years in Córdoba, before Juan Carlos Onganía took power (1966-1970) [...]

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani objected to the bipartisan study group chaired by James Baker III and Lee Hamilton. He was reported by the international press to have said that the bipartisan U.S. report calling for a new approach to the war offered dangerous recommendations that would undermine his country’s sovereignty and were [...]

Oldep.net (Observatorio Latino-Americano de Políticas Educacionales, Brazil; September 14, 2006.
Also in Amauta.in.br; September 15, 2006.
En la conferencia dictada en la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar Josepth Stiglitz expuso brevemente su teoría de la información imperfecta y sus implicaciones para el trabajo hacia una sociedad democrática y justa. Afirmaba que, en el proceso, las universidades tienen un [...]