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2008A75_hlb_cls_ks.pdf (application/pdf-Objekt) Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government. Bpb.de - Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. STRATFOR - Geopolitical intelligence, economic, political, and military strategic forecasting. ExploringGeopolitics - Offering valuable academic insights into key geopolitical questions. Global Geopolitics & Political Economy — Geopolitical and Economic News and Analysis. Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Julio Godoy* | IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BARCELONA (IDN) – International negotiations on so-called “free trade agreements” have always had something surreptitious about them. In the late 1990s, the industrialised countries represented at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) wanted to pass a “multilateral agreement on investment” (MAI) with the alleged goal of facilitating – liberating, so to speak – international investment.

But, for all the good that such investment was supposed to bring about across the world, the OECD managed the negotiations in a most clandestine way. With good reason: Only thanks to the extraordinary work of civil rights activists and journalists, it was revealed that the MAI draft constituted a carte blanche for corporations to commit all kind of violations of national legislation on social and environmental matters. A post on the Russia-Ukraine border. Pavol Stracansky Martin Khor Jewel Fraser.