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122012
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Gulf states and sub-Saharan African countries have begun to forge closer economic ties over the past few years. This process, amid financial crisis in the West and strong growth in Africa, provides a platform for an important new inter-regional geopolitical power play.
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122011
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Africa is booming. Of that, there is little doubt. One feels it every time one lands in Lagos, Addis Ababa, Nairobi or Accra. Hotels are filled to the brim and business-class seats are sometimes hard to come by. Companies are struggling to fill executive positions because they are growing so rapidly. The energy on the streets is palpable, and the rest of the world is noticing. A recent issue of the Economist, for example, led with an article on 'Aspiring Africa' and included an advertisement for an Africa-focused conference in Dubai.1 This followed the first The Times CEO Summit Africa, held in Geneva earlier this year, and the first New York Forum Africa, which took place in Gabon in 2012 and brought over 500 global business leaders to the tiny West African nation. Events such as the IISS forum 'The Geo-economics of Resources and Conflict in Africa', held in Bahrain in April, also show that the world's perception of Africa is changing.
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132471
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2014.
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The recent protests show that secure democracy and an absence of extremism are no guarantee of domestic stability.
On 26 May 2014, just a few weeks ahead of the World Cup, an angry crowd surrounded the Brazilian football team in Rio de Janeiro. Striking teachers attacked the team bus as it left the city's international airport, protesting the government's vast expenditure on preparations for the event and neglect of the education system. Heavily armed military police were called in to clear a path for the vehicle, and have followed the players ever since. For many Brazilians, passion for football was supplanted by demands for better infrastructure, salaries and quality of life: the 12 June Brazil-Croatia game that opened the tournament followed a year in which one person was killed and hundreds were estimated to have been injured in demonstrations around the country. This article went to press before the four-week-long competition had finished; football mania was at the time returning to Brazil. The country's mood was likely to be affected by the final result.
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122015
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2013.
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On 25 April 2013, US government judicial officials unsealed an indictment from 2004, charging Marta Rita Velazquez, a former legal officer at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) of spying for the Cuban government. In 2002 Velazquez had prudently fled to Sweden, which does not extradite individuals accused of espionage to the United States because it is considered a political crime.
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130869
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2014.
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There is more to power than the traditional indicators of resources, influence and perception. Not long ago - in the 1980s, in fact - the US policy community was in the throes of a high-stakes debate about the nature and extent of Soviet power. On one side was a large group who believed that the United States was losing ground to an increasingly powerful and aggressive Soviet Union. Proponents of this view pointed to the shifting balance of conventional military power in favour of Moscow, particularly in Europe, and to Soviet aggression in places such as Afghanistan. As a consequence, many American policymakers advocated increases in military spending to balance against the Soviet Union, a position that was also supported by many in the US military establishment. Others who shared this perspective proposed a more conciliatory and accommodating approach towards their rival, one that was helped along by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's move towards glasnost, and which was eventually manifested in arms-control talks between Washington and Moscow.
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122010
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2013.
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Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a renowned development economist and reformer who has served the Nigerian government and World Bank for most of her career. In her current role, Dr Okonjo-Iweala is responsible for managing the finances of Africa's most populous nation and one of the world's fastest-growing economies. She gave the 2013 Oppenheimer Lecture at Arundel House, London, on 19 June 2013.
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029702
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New York, Basic Book , Inc. Publishers, 1966.
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xii, 623p.: mapshbk
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 003565 | 967.6/DIA 003565 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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